US troop deaths hit 7-month high in Iraq (AP)

Iraqi girls look a a damaged school building after an airstrike in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Health officials said two were killed and 16 wounded in the strike, which occurred Tuesday evening. The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.(AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)AP - The U.S. military death toll hit a seven-month high of 49 on Wednesday ? with more than half the losses in Baghdad as American forces wage growing street battles against Shiite fighters.

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