08-23-07
08/23/2007
As of Tuesday, day 1,617 of the Iraq War…
- 3,705 American service members have been reported killed.
- 27,506 have been reported wounded in action.
- 70,182 is the minimum number of civilians killed in Iraq.
- $453.9 billion in taxpayer funds have been spent on the war.
- $220.3 million — about $100 million more than the cost of the restoration and seismic retrofit of Pasadena City Hall — is Pasadena taxpayers' share.
Since the last Count…
- 17 more American service members have been reported killed.
- 97 more American service members have been reported wounded.
- 848 more Iraqi civilians have been reported killed.
- 15 percent of media coverage in April, May and June was related to the war in Iraq, down from 22 percent, according to the Washington DC-based Project for Excellence in Journalism, which detected a decline in coverage after Democrats failed to impose timetables for troop withdrawal.
- 49 American and 4 British service members have been killed so far in August, according to icasualties.org.
- 82 American servicewomen have died since the beginning of the war, 4 of them this month, according to CNN.
- 2 provincial Iraqi officials were assassinated in a little more than a week, AP reported.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…
- 424 American service members have been reported killed.
- 1,499 have been reported wounded in action.
- 23 people were killed Tuesday as a wave of violence swept over the nation, The Times of India reported.
—Information compiled by Justin Chapman and Joe Piasecki from reports by the US Department of Defense, Iraq Body Count and the National Priorities Project, unless otherwise noted.
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