The Count
As of Tuesday, day 2,404 of the war in Iraq…
By Jake Armstrong 11/05/2009
4,359
American military service members — 5 more than last week — have died since the war began in 2003, according to the US Defense Department. A total of 13,874 have suffered injuries serious enough to keep them from returning to duty.
$193
million is how much the United States could save if KBR, the largest government contractor in Iraq, paced its workforce reduction with the US troop withdrawal, according to a Pentagon audit, Reuters reported Tuesday. The firm will be overstaffed by 2,857 workers until August 2010.
160,000
is how many contractors the Pentagon said it had working in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones in April, but a federal commission on war contracting warned Monday that the military has no “single source for a clear, complete picture” on how many contractors are actually employed, Agence France-Presse reported.
14
days is how long Noor Faleh Almaleki (pictured), a 20-year-old Iraqi who was run down by her father in an alleged “honor killing” in Phoenix, spent in the hospital before succumbing to injuries Monday, the Associated Press reported.
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