U.S. Confirmed Deaths
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Reported Deaths: 4076
Confirmed Deaths: 4074
Pending Confirmation: 2
DoD Confirmation List
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1 million Iraqi's?
Latest Coalition Fatalities
05/11/08 MNF: MND-B Soldier attacked by IEDA Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed after being struck by an improvised explosive
device during a route clearance patrol at approximately 9:20 p.m. May 11 in northwestern Baghdad.
The Soldier was quickly transported...
05/11/08 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Mary J. Jaenichen, 20, of Temecula, Calif., died May 9 in Iskandariyah, Iraq, of a non-combat
related injury. She was assigned to the Brigade Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
05/10/08 MNF: Soldier killed in non-combat incident
A U.S. Soldier was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in experienced a roll over
near Al Asad May 10.
05/10/08 MNF: MND-Center Soldier dies
Center soldier died of non-combat related injuries May 9. The name of the deceased is
being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.
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News05/12/08 Reuters: U.S. troops repel attacks in Baghdad slum
U.S. forces killed three gunmen who attacked their patrols in the Baghdad
stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the military said on Monday.
05/12/08 AP: Iraqi officials say 2 killed, 25 wounded in clashes in Sadr City
Iraqi health officials say overnight clashes in Sadr City have killed two people
and wounded 25, including five children. They say the violence erupted in Sadr City
around midnight Sunday. They spoke on condition of anonymity...
05/12/08 Reuters: 3 bodies found in Baghdad, 2 found near Kirkuk on Sunday
Three bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said...
Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture just north of Kirkuk,
250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
05/11/08 NYTimes: In Sadr City, a Cease-Fire Is Put to the Test, and Fails
A column of Iraqi armor set out on Sunday to test a new truce in the Sadr City area of
Baghdad between the militias and the Iraqi government by venturing north on a major
thoroughfare that borders the Shiite enclave.
05/11/08 NYTimes: Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes Gains
Just as in Baghdad, Iraqi and Western officials emphasize that the gains here are “fragile,”
like the newly planted roadside saplings that fail to conceal mounds of garbage and pools
of foul-smelling water in the historic port city’s slums.
05/11/08 Salon: Killing by the numbers
Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle
pump house along the banks of the Euphrates. Each day at midmorning, he would start the
seven-horsepower pump to water his crops.
05/11/08 AP: Number of disabled vets up with Iraq, Afghan wars
Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds,
an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades
to come - even as the total population of America's vets has begun to shrink.
05/11/08 NYTimes: Sadr City Bomb Squad - Looking for Trouble Before It Explodes
The bland job description is “route clearance,” but it is one of the most unglamorous and
dangerous missions in Iraq. Creeping along the scarred streets of Sadr City, the soldiers
search for roadside bombs around the clock, using bright spotlights...
05/11/08 iht: Sadr City truce: Will it last?
Shiite leaders in Parliament and leaders of the movement of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr
agreed to a truce over the weekend that would end more than a month of bloody fighting in the
vast, crowded Baghdad ghetto of Sadr City.
05/11/08 MCT: U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs
Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon , 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba , north of Baghdad , when
he saw Shahad Abbas . The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps
of her legs where her calves should have been...
05/11/08 LATImes: U.S. military hits a wall in Sadr City
In the glow of a full moon, a U.S. military convoy inched toward a strategic road in Sadr City.
The goal: to add to a wall being built to carve out a haven in the Shiite Muslim militia stronghold.
05/11/08 VOA: US Forces Kill Woman, Child and 2 Gunmen Mosul
U.S. forces have killed four people, including two civilians, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The U.S. military said in a statement Sunday that its forces fired on a vehicle, killing two armed
men, a woman and a child.
05/11/08 AFP: Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq, killing an unknown
number of militants in the latest in a series of air strikes in the region, the Turkish army
said Sunday.
05/11/08 AP: Cease-fire goes into effect, signs of normalcy in Sadr City
On the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite militants and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, authorities
in Baghdad's Sadr City reported no violence on Sunday as gunmen withdrew from the streets and shops
reopened after two months of intense clashes.
05/10/08 ABC: Halliburton Rape Claim Goes to Court
A Houston woman who says she was gang raped by co-workers at a Halliburton/KBR camp in Baghdad
won a major court battle late Friday when a Texas judge ordered that she can bring her case to
court instead of forcing her into secretive...
05/10/08 Reuters: Key points in deal to end Baghdad fighting
Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security
forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has killed hundreds of
people, officials said.
05/10/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 2 civilians, wounds 5 in Basra
A roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded five others when it hit a police patrol
in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
05/10/08 Reuters: Iraqi security forces detain 18 wanted men
Iraqi police and soldiers detained 18 wanted men in a raid on Mahmudiya town, 30 km (20 miles)
south of Baghdad. The security forces also found two bodies during the operation.
05/10/08 Reuters: Rocket kills 2, wounds 8 in eastern Baghdad
A rocket landed in eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others, police said.
05/10/08 Reuters: Rocket fire wounds 2 people in western Baghdad
Five people were wounded in a rocket attack in Baghdad's western Mansour district, police said.
05/10/08 Reuters: Two bodies found in Baghdad
Two bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad, police said.
05/10/08 Reuters: Mortar fire wounds 3 people in eastern Baghdad
A mortar round wounded three people in eastern Baghdad's Palestine street, police said.
05/10/08 timesofindia: Two workers from Tamil Nadu killed in Iraq
Shattered by the news of the death of their sons in a bomb blast in Iraq on May 8, two families
in Tamil Nadu are waiting for help from the state government and the Centre to bring back their
bodies. But there has been no official word either...
05/10/08 TheHindu: Truck driver killed in Iraq
A 30-year-old Ramesh Kumar, son of Samiappan of Keezha Eesanur village in Tirukkuvalai taluk
in Nagapattinam district, died reportedly in a terrorist bomb attack in Iraq on Thursday.
05/10/08 KUNA: 60 gunmen arrested in Mosul city operation
Head of operations in Nineveh governorate affirmed Sunday the arrest of 60 gunmen in the first
day of anti-terrorism operations in Mosul city.
05/10/08 dba: 25 killed in clashes between Turkish soldiers, PKK - Summary
The Turkish military Saturday claimed that it killed 19 fighters of the banned underground
organization The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in clashes in which six Turkish soldiers also
died. The PKK attacked an police station overnight...
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