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The insurgency has been getting steadily weaker in a military sense for quite a while.
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CNN Report :
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The U.S. military reported that a roadside bomb Saturday killed
five U.S. soldiers near Ramadi, west of Baghdad in Anbar province.
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The soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
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In another incident, a homemade bomb killed
one U.S. Marine on Saturday in Saqlawiya, northwest of Falluja, the U.S. military said.
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The U.S. death toll in the Iraq war now stands at
1,980.
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