The death was the first in the American-led force that arrived two weeks ago.

"The coalition has to do something about this," he said, referring to the American-led forces.

That job is now in the hands of the American-led military forces.

American-led forces in Iraq, the official said, "are not trying to hype this up to be more than it is."

Advisers from the American-led forces estimate that the attrition rate is about 20 percent a year.

Another 1,600 soldiers from other nations are members of the American-led forces here.

Since the American-led forces invaded, pipelines have been under constant attack.

Her brothers, they said, had been killed in conflicts with American-led forces.

It was the first to move since the American-led force arrived in this eastern African country.

But new technologies being tested by the American-led forces have the potential to prevent many of these accidental attacks.