http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/12970009.htmWASHINGTON — The U.S. military announced Friday the deaths of four Marines and a soldier, bringing the number of American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq since the war began 2½ years ago to 1,993.
Three of the Marines were killed Thursday by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad. The fourth died Wednesday in a car bombing in Karbala. The soldier died of wounds suffered during a mortar attack Thursday on a base in Hit, northwest of the Iraqi capital.
With deaths coming at an average of more than two per day, it appears likely that the number of dead will reach 2,000 in a matter of days.
There's nothing inherently special about that number, but it provides a marker of sorts for the American effort to transform Iraq from dictatorship to democracy. And it's a sobering reminder of the human cost of the U.S. presence in that country, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has suggested could last an additional 10 years.
The number of troops wounded in Iraq stands at 15,220, the Pentagon says. Of those, 7,159 were so seriously hurt that they haven't returned to duty.
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http://icasualties.org/oif/Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 556 12 17 585 2.21 265
3 579 25 27 631 2.92 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1993 97 102 2192 2.31 948
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
10-2005 60 2 1 63 2.86 22
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