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[CoalTrain]

if we cannot keep contractors from getting killed how are we going to "rebuild" Iraq with our McArmy that has delegated so much of the rebuilding to the private sector? They cannot even show up to feed our troops.

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[Rick Faurot]

U.S. Soldier Dies in Baghdad Attack - U.S. Military

Thu August 21, 2003 08:10 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad late on Wednesday night, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

The latest death brings to 63 the number of U.S. soldiers killed since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

The U.S. Army says forces loyal to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein are mainly to blame but is also increasingly warning of the threat of foreign militants it says have entered Iraq to attack U.S. forces.

Attacks have not been confined to U.S. and British forces. On Tuesday a massive truck bomb exploded outside the U.N. compound in Baghdad, killing 23 people including the United Nation's top envoy to Iraq.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Secretary of State Colin Powell were to meet later Thursday in New York to discuss a U.N. resolution that could provide greater security in Iraq.