The Count
05/07/2008
As of Tuesday, day 1,876 of the war in Iraq…
• 4,070 American armed services members have died in Iraq, including 4 Marines killed Friday by a roadside bomb in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, reported Reuters.
• 30,004 armed services members have been reported wounded, 93 since the last Count. 13,379 of them have injuries which are severe enough to prevent their return to duty.
• 3,500 soldiers sent to Iraq as part of the 2007 troop surge will return home in a few weeks, according to CNN and AP. More troops are expected to leave Iraq this summer, although commanders are asking for a pause in those moves to assess the security situation there.
• 83,441 is the estimated minimum number of civilian deaths due to violence since the beginning of the US occupation of Iraq, 220 more since the last Count.
• 30 people, including 12 children, died on April 29 in Baghdad from the impact of an American bomb. A minimum of 136 and as many as 600 civilians were killed in April by US forces, according to researchers with IraqBodyCount.net.
• $517.3 billion has been spent so far on the war.
• $253.6 million is Pasadena taxpayers’ share.
— Information compiled by Joe Piasecki from reports by the Department of Defense, Iraq Body Count and the National Priorities Project, unless otherwise noted.
• 4,070 American armed services members have died in Iraq, including 4 Marines killed Friday by a roadside bomb in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, reported Reuters.
• 30,004 armed services members have been reported wounded, 93 since the last Count. 13,379 of them have injuries which are severe enough to prevent their return to duty.
• 3,500 soldiers sent to Iraq as part of the 2007 troop surge will return home in a few weeks, according to CNN and AP. More troops are expected to leave Iraq this summer, although commanders are asking for a pause in those moves to assess the security situation there.
• 83,441 is the estimated minimum number of civilian deaths due to violence since the beginning of the US occupation of Iraq, 220 more since the last Count.
• 30 people, including 12 children, died on April 29 in Baghdad from the impact of an American bomb. A minimum of 136 and as many as 600 civilians were killed in April by US forces, according to researchers with IraqBodyCount.net.
• $517.3 billion has been spent so far on the war.
• $253.6 million is Pasadena taxpayers’ share.
— Information compiled by Joe Piasecki from reports by the Department of Defense, Iraq Body Count and the National Priorities Project, unless otherwise noted.
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