http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-us-deaths,0,2040174.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlinesAs of Monday, Jan. 17, 2005, at least 1,366 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 1,071 died as a result of hostile action, the Defense Department said. The figures include three military civilians.
The AP count is eight higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. Friday.
The British military has reported 76 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 16; Ukraine, 16; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, seven; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Latvia and Kazakhstan one death each.
Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,228 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 962 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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A soldier who injured Sunday when his vehicle flipped into a canal in western Baghdad died on Monday. Two Marines were killed Monday in Anbar province.
Toll of British wounded in Iraq war reaches 800http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1441320,00.htmlTHEY are the forgotten victims of the Iraq conflict — the hundreds of soldiers maimed or wounded in the invasion and its 20-month aftermath.
The number of British troops flown home with serious injuries is now nearly 800, The Times can reveal. The Ministry of Defence has previously disclosed only the death toll and the Government has done nothing to draw attention to the wounded, many of whom were hurt during acts of exceptional courage. The Freedom of Information Act is now obliging it to be more open.
Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, has made one visit, 21 months ago, to the Birmingham hospital where they are treated. Neither Tony Blair nor any other senior minister has visited the wounded in the British hospital, although they have seen injured soldiers at a military hospital in Basra.
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But Gordon Stacey, whose son Kevin required emergency brain surgery after his tank was hit by a bomb in Basra last August, said that he felt disgusted by Mr Blair’s perceived lack of interest in the war wounded.
“After Kevin was injured it was the beginning of the Olympics and I saw Tony Blair walking around in a T-shirt, shaking hands and smiling and I felt disgusted. Here we were with our boy injured and there was Tony Blair swanning around getting as much publicity as possible from just being at the Olympics,” he said.
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