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Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
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By The Associated Press
As of Friday, Dec. 26, 471 U.S. service
members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news
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sites), according to the Department of Defense (news
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sites). Of those, 323 died as a result of hostile action and 148 died
of non-hostile causes, the department said. The department did not provide
an update Saturday.
The British military has reported 52 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight;
Bulgaria, four; Thailand, two; Denmark, Ukraine and Poland have reported
one each.
On or since May 1, when President Bush (news
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sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 333
U.S. soldiers have died � 208 as a result of hostile action and 125 of
non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures as of
Friday.
Since the start of military operations, 2,332 U.S. service members have
been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense
Department's Friday figures. Non-hostile injured numbered 370.
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The latest deaths reported by the U.S. Central Command:
_ A soldier died Friday in a traffic accident in the Baghdad area.
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The latest identifications reported by the Department of Defense:
_ No new identifications.
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