U.S. fatalities in war exceed those from Sept. 11 Military deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan reach 2,974 The Associated Press Updated: 7:44 p.m. PT Sept 22, 2006 U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America’s history, the trigger for what came next. The latest milestone for a country at war came Friday without commemoration. .......................... Not for the first time, war that was started to answer death has resulted in at least as much death for the country that was first attacked, quite apart from the higher numbers of enemy and...