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Justice Department redefines what is tortured in a less tortured way, but it won't matter to Rumsfeld		12/31/04 7:46 AM
Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq, numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks, show the situation has gotten worse since the summer.
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