Daily U.S. Casualties 5/24/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 5/24/2004

As of Sunday, 791 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 576 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of nonhostile causes. The department did not provide an update over the week end, but the military reported one Marine was killed Sunday.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each. Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 652 U.S. soldiers have died -- 466 as a result of hostile action and 186 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:


A U.S. Marine was killed in a car bombing near Fallujah, a center of the separate Sunni Muslim insurgency in the central and northern areas of the country, the military reported.


The latest identification reported by the Pentagon:


Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy R. Horton, 24, Carneys Point, Pa.; killed Friday by an explosive near Al Iskandariyah, Iraq; assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division; Baumholder, Germany.

[German-Lefty]

1. 801 dead in last count -- here check out this site with statistics

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

This thing rules. It seems to tick up a few hours after a news wire.