1299 Martyred American Boys Can't Be ALL Wrong

Weak American Mercenaries Squeal Like Pigs When they Die



Telegraph.co.uk


Child soldiers square up to US tanks
(Filed: 23/08/2004)


Boys who would be martyrs talk to Toby Harnden at the Imam Ali Shrine, Najaf

Struggling to lift a Kalashnikov, a 12-year-old with the Mahdi army militia said he could do anything in battle except fly a helicopter.

"Last night I fired a rocket-propelled grenade against a tank," he said. "The Americans are weak. They fight for money and status and squeal like pigs when they die.

"But we will kill the unbelievers because faith is the most powerful weapon."

The boy called himself Moqtada, styled after the rebel cleric whose ranks he joined a month ago having travelled to Najaf from the Shia slum of Sadr City in Baghdad. He said that he hopes for a glorious death....


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Casualties in Iraq
The Human Cost of Occupation
Edited by Michael Ewens :: Contact American Military Casualties in Iraq

Date Total In Combat

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 1299 1023
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list) 1162 913
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 837 719
Since Handover (6/29/04): 438 391
American Wounded Official Estimated
Total Wounded: 9844 15000 - 20000
Latest Fatality December 15th, 2004
Page last updated 12/15/04 7:25 pm EDT
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Others
Other Coalition Troops 145
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan 146
Iraqi Body Count IBC
American Civilian Casualties
Sources: DoD, CentCom and iCasualties.org

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The Wounded

The wounded numbers above reflect the official count as released by the U.S. military. However, there are other estimates that 12,000 soldiers have been treated for illness, non-combat injury and combat injury since March of 2002.

Casualties Increase (MSNBC)

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center has been a fixture on America's military landscape for more than five decades, serving as midway point for wounded troops returning home for treatment.

Since President Bush declared Iraq combat operations over in May 2003, nearly 3,000 servicemen and women have been wounded in action. More than half that number did not return to duty, reflecting the high number of combat casualties, and serious nature of injuries, from Iraq.

This week, as U.S. forces battled insurgents and a fierce Shiite uprising, the upsurge in violence has reverberated here in Germany. Hospital officials say there has been a dramatic increase in patients.

"I'm trying to catch up with all the new arrivals," said Army Chaplain Richard Ross.

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UPI reports :

As many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems.

Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda Cornum.

That means about 1,000 soldiers were evacuated for mental problems.

The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital.

Also see The Missing Wounded.

American Count

Dates and sources of Americans killed in Iraq since 5/1/03 are documented in this file. Admittedly the file is incomplete, for the Department of Defense does not maintain old records. All data was compiled from www.defenselink.mil. If something is amiss in the data collection, please contact Michael Ewens.

Iraqi Civilian Count

We have not set up a database for these numbers, rather we direct you Iraq Body Count.





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