McClatchy reports that “the U.S. death toll in Iraq increased in January, ending a four-month drop in casualties.” According the military statistics, “most of the deaths occurred outside Baghdad or the once-restive Anbar province” which “has some fretting that the U.S. is fighting another round of ‘whack-a-mole.’”
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