Daily U.S. Casualties 4/12/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/12/2004

As of Friday, 649 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 455 died as a result of hostile action and 194 died of nonhostile causes.

The department did not provide an update of figures Saturday or Sunday, and the total did not include heavy weekend casualties.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 511 U.S. soldiers have died -- 346 as a result of hostile action and 165 of nonhostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures as of Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military Sunday:


Two soldiers were killed Sunday when their Apache helicopter was shot down in Baghdad.


One Marine assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed Saturday in fighting in Anbar province.


Three soldiers assigned to the 1st Armored Division were killed Friday in an attack in Baghdad.


A soldier assigned to the Task Force 1st Armored Division was killed Friday in a convoy attack in Baghdad.


Three soldiers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division were killed Friday near Tikrit.

The latest identifications reported by the military or families on Sunday:


Marine Cpl. Matthew E. Matula, 20, Spicewood, Texas; died Friday in fighting; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Marine Lance Cpl. Elias Torrez III, 21, Veribest, Texas; died Friday in fighting; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.


Marine Cpl. Michael R. Speer, 24, Davenport, Iowa; died Friday in fighting in Anbar province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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1. A 21 yr old, a 20 yr old and a 24 yr old

Three more servicemembers gone. Their lives destroyed and their families left holding the flag because george bush lied for profit and politics. I'm sure this report gives solace to christian conservatives in our country. how sad.