"We've made major progress, the surge has worked"

"On the security front, I think there's a general consensus that we've made major progress, that the surge has worked. That's been a major success," Cheney told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.

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Baghdad mortuary sees rise in number of corpses

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Baghdad's main mortuary has seen a rise in the number of corpses received in the past fortnight amid a new wave of violence in and around the Iraqi capital, its director told AFP on Monday.

"There is a spike in the number of corpses of people who have died violent deaths in the past 15 days," Redha Ali told AFP.

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``We regret every casualty, every loss,'' Vice President
Dick Cheney told reporters in Jerusalem, when asked about the
number of U.S. dead.