Iraq split on US death-toll news

Some Iraqis sympathised with US forces today after hearing the American death toll in the Iraq war had reached 2,000. But others noted that far more Iraqis have died in the conflict and they hoped the US “occupiers” would soon go home.

A day after the 2,000 milestone was reached, insurgent attacks continued. Four militants hiding behind a mosque shot and killed a government official as he drove to work today in a ministry that is trying to recover antiquities looted from Iraqi museums when US forces seized the capital in 2003.