Yahoo! News - Mideast Photos - AFP: "US Marines patrol Fallujah, some 50 kilometers east of Baghdad. The last six months of 2004 proved the deadliest period for US forces in Iraq (news - web sites) with a total of 503 soldiers killed, figures showed. The deadliest month was November when 141 troops were killed, reflecting the heavy combat in Fallujah where US troops battled rebels in the street in some of the heaviest fighting ever in Iraq(AFP/Hrvoje Polan) "