Daily U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq - 495 U.S. service members have died

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Odd thing is that I have been watching these AP updates for months now and they have never released an update over the weekend before. Wonder why they have changed that policy?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1480

As of Sunday, Jan. 11, 495 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq (news - web sites), according to the Defense Department. Of those, 342 died as a result of hostile action and 153 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. snip

Since May 1, when President Bush (news - web sites) declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 357 U.S. soldiers have died — 227 as a result of hostile action and 130 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.

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