Deaths pile up in Iraq - 2 GI fatalities make month deadliest yet

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Deaths pile up in Iraq
2 GI fatalities make month deadliest yet

By SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN
Knight Ridder Newspapers


Underscoring the dangers that inspired the secrecy surrounding President Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Iraq, a U.S. soldier was killed Friday, making November the deadliest month so far of the Iraqi engagement.

The soldier died as mortar shells apparently fired by insurgents pounded a 101st Airborne Division base in the northern city of Mosul.

Another American soldier was shot to death on Thanksgiving inside a military base in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, according to a military statement. It was unclear how the shooting took place.

The soldiers' names were not immediately released.

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