Daily U.S. Casualties 8/23/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/23/2004

As of Sunday, 954 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 712 died as a result of hostile action and 242 died of nonhostile causes.

The department did not provide a weekend update, but the military on Sunday reported the deaths of four U.S. Marines on Saturday and one U.S. soldier Sunday.

The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 816 U.S. soldiers have died -- 603 as a result of hostile action and 213 of nonhostile causes, according to military figures.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:

One Marine was killed in action Saturday in Anbar province.

Two Marines died Saturday of wounds received while on patrol in Anbar province.

A Marine was killed Saturday in a vehicle accident in Anbar province.

A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb attack outside Mosul.

No new identifications were reported by the military.

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