The death toll in Iraq for April has past 100, making it the deadliest month for American forces this year.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber blew himself up during a Shiite funeral in an area north of Baghdad, killed at least 20 people and left 30 wounded. This occurred four days after a suicide car bomber killed 10 Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint 50 miles north of Baghdad.
The U.S. troops have been increasingly deployed on the streets of Baghdad and housed with Iraqi troops in joint security operations, which are away from their heavily fortified bases. And because of this, the vulnerability of the U.S. troops to attacks is raising.
Three American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb; a U.S. soldier was slain by small arms fire in the city; a Marine also was killed in Anbar province.
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