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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. commander of coalition forces in Iraq says violence in the country dropped significantly in August.
Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, in an interview on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, said economic life is beginning to revive in areas cleared of insurgents by a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation.
"People are beginning to get on with their lives," he said.
Chiarelli said U.S. forces are fighting "a different war" than the one they fought in 2003.
"This is a different war than the United States has ever fought," he added.
Rebuilding projects have become important to win over the Iraqis, he said -- "I never thought that I would know anything about how a sewer system in a city of 7.5 million people works, but I do now."
According to icasualties.org, a Web site that keeps track of civilian deaths in Iraq, the number of Iraqi military, police and civilians killed in August dropped to 1,203. That was down from 1,280 in July but higher than any previous month in 2006.
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