The Cost of War: Iraq Death Toll |
Lives Lost in Iraq: at least 135,609
March 20, 2003 to April 29, 2008
FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING
U.S. TOLL IN IRAQ HITS 4,000+
The horror of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld war.
This site is not about comparing Iraq casualties to other wars.
It is not about comparing the death tolls to disease, accidents or any other factor.
It is about the tragedy of the hundreds of thousands of lives either lost or forever damaged as a result
of the lies, greed, insanity, inhumanity, and megalomania of the Bush/Cheney Administration.
source: http://icasualties.org/oif/
"We cannot allow our soldiers to be used as tools, to terrorize innocent Iraqi civilians.
This has got to stop. This country doesn't belong to George Bush and the corporation
he makes wealthy with the blood of our sons and daughters."
~ Anita Anderson
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Is there any statistics of the Iraqis killed and
displaced by the unethical and illegal war of Iraq.
Mahthir Mohammad recently called for tial fo Bush,
Blair and Howard for war crimes. All the problems that
world is facing today is all because of the
prolonged war in Iraq. Thse responsible for causing
human myseries to this extent must face war crimes
tribunal.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
> US Military death reaches 4056 [4/29/2008]
> *Military Deaths By Time Period* Period US UK
> Other* Total Days Avg *
> Total* *4056* *176* *133* *4365* *1866* *2.34* 6
> 970 46 9 1025 453 2.26 5
> 933 32 20 985 412 2.39 4 715 13 18 746 318 2.35 3
> 580 25 27 632 216 2.93 2
> 718 27 59 804 424 1.9 1 140 33 0 173 43 4.02
>
> http://icasualties.org/oif/
>
> *U.S. Military Deaths By Year/Month*
> Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
> Dec Total 2003 0 0 65
> 74 37 30 48 35 31 44 82 40 486 2004 47 20 52 135 80
> 42 54 66 80 64 137 72
> 849 2005 107 58 35 52 80 78 54 85 49 96 84 68 846
> 2006 62 55 31 76 69 61 43
> 65 72 106 70 112 822 2007 83 81 81 104 126 101 78 84
> 65 38 37 23 901 2008 40
> 29 39 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 152
>
> View Graph: U.S. Fatalities By
> Month/Year<http://icasualties.org/oif/USByYear.aspx>
> 4 U.S. Troops In Baghdad Are Killed by Rocket
> Fire Month's Toll of 44
> Americans Is Highest Since September
> By Ernesto Londoño and Amit R.
>
Paley<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/ernesto+londoño+and+amit+r.+paley/>
>
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Tuesday, April 29, 2008; Page A10
>
> BAGHDAD, April 28 -- Four U.S. soldiers were killed
> in two rocket attacks
> in Baghdad on Monday as clashes between U.S.-backed
> Iraqi forces and Shiite
> militiamen intensified, the military said.
>
> Three soldiers were killed about 1 p.m. in eastern
> Baghdad, where fighters
> loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada
>
al-Sadr<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Muqtada+al-Sadr?tid=informline>have
> battled U.S. and Iraqi troops. The fourth American
> soldier was killed
> at 4:15 p.m. in the western part of the capital, a
> U.S.
>
military<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Armed+Forces?tid=informline>spokesman
> said. The military provided few other details about
> the attacks.
>
> The deaths marked one of the deadliest days for U.S.
> troops in
>
Iraq<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=el>since
> Prime Minister Nouri
>
al-Maliki<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Nouri+al-Maliki?tid=informline>launchedZone<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad+Green+Zone?tid=informline>on
> an offensive against Shiite militias in the southern
> city of Basra
> in late March, prompting retaliation there and in
> the vast Shiite district
> of Sadr City in Baghdad. Forty-four U.S. troops have
> died in Iraq in April,
> according to iCasualties.org, which tracks military
> fatalities, more than
> any month since September.
>
> Also Monday, militiamen launched a mortar and rocket
> attack against a combat
> outpost in Sadr City shortly after several top
> military officials, including
> Brig. Gen. William F. Grimsley, had visited. Fifteen
> U.S. soldiers were
> injured in the attack, none seriously, said Lt. Col.
> Steve Stover, a U.S.
> military spokesman.
>
> "We will continue fighting to get a safe environment
> and neighborhood for
> the citizens of Sadr City," Grimsley told reporters
> during his visit to the
> outpost.
>
> Elsewhere, U.S. soldiers aboard helicopters and an
> Abrams tank killed at
> least seven people in eastern Baghdad on Monday, the
> U.S. military said.
>
> U.S. soldiers came under small-arms attack shortly
> after 3 p.m. and
> responded by firing a Hellfire missile, which killed
> at least four people,
> and a round from an Abrams tank that killed three
> additional people, the
> military said.
>
> "I don't know what's going through the enemy's mind
> when they're firing at
> Abrams tanks," Stover said. "The soldiers have a
> right to protect
> themselves."
>
> U.S. officials say they are fighting bands of
> Iranian-backed militias that
> are ignoring a cease-fire order issued by Sadr last
> year. The cleric has in
> recent weeks issued statements saying his followers
> are being
> indiscriminately targeted by U.S.-backed Iraqi
> forces. He has threatened to
> wage an "open war" and assailed the presence of U.S.
> troops in Iraq, but has
> stopped short of lifting the cease-fire outright.
>
> Meanwhile, rockets continued to strike the Green
>
> Monday, a day after the fortified enclave that
> houses U.S. diplomats
> and
> Iraqi government officials was pummeled as rocket
> launchers took advantage
> of a heavy dust storm that grounded U.S. military
> helicopters.
>
> Leslie Phillips, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy
> in
>
Baghdad<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Embassy+in+Baghdad?tid=informline>,
> said the Green Zone was struck by an undisclosed
> amount of rocket or mortar
> fire Monday. She said she had no reports of embassy
> personnel being killed
> or wounded in the attacks.
>
> Also Monday, U.S. soldiers said they killed 10
> suspected Sunni insurgents in
> five operations near Baghdad, the military said in a
> statement.
>
> The clashes in Sadr City, which is home to nearly 3
> million people, have
> exposed residents to nearly daily fighting, sharply
> limited their mobility
> and made food and medical supplies scarce, according
> to aid organizations.
>
> President Jalal
>
Talabani<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Jalal+Talabani?tid=informline>met> Saad al-Izzi in Baghdad contributed to this report.*
> Monday with the speaker of the Iraqi parliament and
> political leaders
> of
> Sadr's movement to discuss the situation, the
> president's office said in a
> statement. The politicians are trying to alleviate
> the humanitarian crisis
> in Sadr City, where hundreds of people have been
> killed in recent months,
> the statement said.
>
> On Sunday clashes in the densely populated part of
> the capital killed at
> least 38 people, the military said. U.S. troops used
> Abrams tanks Sunday to
> fend off at least three attacks, the military said
> Monday.
>
> That clash started after 6 p.m. in northeastern
> Baghdad when Iraqi soldiers
> manning a checkpoint came under small-arms fire, the
> U.S. military said in a
> statement.
>
> U.S. soldiers on Abrams tanks fired back with 120mm
> rounds and rifles,
> killing at least 22 people, the military said.
>
> Shortly before that confrontation, soldiers on foot
> in northeastern Baghdad
> were attacked with small-arms fire and
> rocket-propelled grenades. Seven of
> the suspected attackers were killed when U.S.
> soldiers struck back from a
> tank, the military said.
>
> About 3 p.m. Sunday, the U.S. soldiers on a tank
> killed a suspected
> militiaman after the soldiers were attacked with
> rocket-propelled grenades,
> the military said.
>
> Eight other people the military described in
> statements as "criminals" and
> "evildoers" were killed Sunday in an airstrike and
> clashes on the ground,
> the military said. One of those clashes occurred at
> 3:15 p.m. when a U.S.
> combat outpost came under small-arms fire.
>
> *Staff researcher Robert E. Thomason in Washington
> and special correspondent
>
> **
>
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