Daily U.S. Casualties 8/27/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/27/2004

As of Thursday, Aug. 26, 966 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 723 died as a result of hostile action and 243 died of non-hostile causes.

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, 828 U.S. soldiers have died, 614 as a result of hostile action and 214 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Thursday.

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

A U.S. soldier was killed by a mortar attack Wednesday in Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Lance Cpl. Jacob R. Lugo, 21, Flower Mound, Texas; killed Tuesday in Anbar province; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif.


Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, Randolph, Mass.; killed Wednesday Najaf; assigned to Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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1. A Very Sad Footnote to Cpl. Arredondo

Arredondo's father was proud of him, but when three uniformed Marine officers arrived at his Hollywood, Fla., home Wednesday to deliver the news that his son had been killed in Najaf, Carlos Arredondo snapped, according to his wife, Melida, who was at work at the time.

"Well, at the time that the Marines showed up, I was working. And I knew my husband called me immediately and was crying and screaming in the phone that Alexander had been killed, that his son had been killed. And I went to pieces and my husband, as you know, went to pieces and basically tried to accompany his son," Melida Arredondo said.

According to witnesses, Carlos Arredondo, 44, climbed into the Marine Corps van parked outside his home after smashing in the windows and setting it on fire using a propane tank, a can of gasoline and a blowtorch from his garage. The three Marines, reservists who are members of a military Casualty Assistance Calls Officer team, pulled Carlos Arredondo from the burning vehicle and extinguished the flames, but more than 50 percent of his body had been burned

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2. whats the magic number

whats the magic number that bush will allow until the army "miraculously" find Osama.