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A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in
Iraq
Yahoo News/AP
January 22, 2006
As of Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006, at least 2,224 members of the U.S. military
have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an
Associated Press count. At least 1,741 died as a result of hostile action,
according to the military's numbers. The figures include six military
civilians.
The AP count is one lower than the Defense Department's tally, last updated
Friday.
The British military has reported 98 deaths; Italy, 27; Ukraine, 18; Poland,
17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia,
Netherlands, Thailand, two each; Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, one death
each.
Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations
in Iraq had ended, 2,085 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's
count. That includes at least 1,632 deaths resulting from hostile action,
according to the military's numbers.
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