I only had semi-regular brief doses of BBC or CNN International while I was away. I heard plenty of stories about deaths in Iraq while I was there - car bombs killing civilians and members of the Iraqi security forces, etc... During that time I'm pretty sure I didn't hear about a single American casualty. That isn't to say it wasn't reported at all -- it just wasn't reported much. I was shocked to read in the IHT right before I returned that July has yet again been another bloody month for our troops - 42 US soldiers killed already. Number 900 just happened.
