An Outrage

[Annie]

If the wires had done this in any other war, we would not be the country that we are. Perhaps we won't be, in part thanks to things like this. Only AP or al Reuters:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

DAILY:

Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

By The Associated PressFri Nov 25, 7:50 PM ET

As of Friday, Nov. 25, 2005, at least 2,104 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

The AP count is four lower than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday.

The British military has reported 98 deaths; Italy, 27; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,965 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,544 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

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The latest deaths reported by the military:

• A soldier was killed Thursday in a single-vehicle accident involving his M-1 Abrams tank in Baghdad.

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The latest identification reported by the military:

• Army Spc. Allen J. Knop, 22, Willowick, Ohio; died Wednesday in Baghdad, from non-combat related injuries; assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.