A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq (Lest we forget)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

As of Monday, Sept. 6, 990 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 non-hostile 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.

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, 838 U.S. soldiers have died - 621 as a result of hostile action and 217 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. There was no update provided Monday because of Labor Day.
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