Daily U.S. Casualties 9/7/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 9/7/2004

As of Monday, Sept. 6, 991 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on Defense Department records and AP reporting from Iraq.

The Defense Department's most recent published count, as of Friday, Sept. 3, shows 976 U.S. service members dead. Of those, 730 died as a result of hostile action and 246 died of nonhostile causes.

The AP count of 990 includes five additional names released by the Defense Department plus nine fatalities since Friday who have not been identified.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 838 U.S. soldiers have died -- 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Seven Marines were killed Monday in a car bomb attack near Fallujah, Iraq.


No new identifications were reported.