Daily U.S. Casualties 6/28/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 6/28/2004

As of Sunday, 850 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 629 died as a result of hostile action and 221 died of nonhostile causes. The department did not provide a weekend update, but the military reported a U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket attack near Baghdad and a U.S. Marine was killed in Anbar province.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 712 U.S. soldiers have died -- 520 as a result of hostile action and 192 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

There were no new identifications. The latest deaths reported by the military:

A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a rocket attack on a 1st Cavalry Division camp near Baghdad.

A U.S. Marine was killed in action Saturday in Anbar province.

[FloridaPat]

1. Too bad they're not releasing the number of dead of those

service personel who have died OUTSIDE of Iraq. All those injured that died. Estimated number of injured is around 15,000. 6% of that is 900. Percentage is from DOD.

These people are the biggest liars in the history of the world.

[jdsmith]

2. CNN now using the "hostile deaths" number

after being over 800 for some time, suddenly their count dropped to 629.