Eyeballing the Iraq Kill Zone

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6 December 2004

1,319 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Source of photos and captions as noted.

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American marines searching for Iraqis suspected of being insurgents raided a home last week in Mahmudiya, a rebel hotbed near Baghdad. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)
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American marines blindfolded suspects detained Saturday in Mahmudiya in raids to root out insurgents. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)

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The marines set up a room at a military base to fingerprint and photograph suspects detained in the raids. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)
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U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner, center, is urged away from photographers by an unidentified member of his defense team as they arrive for a pretrial hearing on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, at Fort Hood, Texas. Graner, from Uniontown, Pa., is one of three members of the 372nd Military Police Company being tried at Fort Hood on charges in the humiliation of prisoners in the fall of 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

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A US soldier guards the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 6 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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US troops inspect the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Medics treat Iraqi policeman Ahmed Ali in a Baqouba, Iraq hospital Monday Dec. 6, 2004, who was one of several people wounded when gunman tried to assasinate an Iraqi police colonel in Baqouba Monday morning. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)
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Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni, right, looks in a viewfinder during the filming of his new movie " La Tigre e la Neve" (The Tiger and The Snow), in downtown Rome, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. The film, a comedy about the war in Iraq also starring Benigni's wife Nicoletta Braschi and French actor Jean Reno, is scheduled to be released in 2005. Man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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The President of the Interim Government of the Republic of Iraq, Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer, speaks with the media outside the White House after meeting with President Bush, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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This undated photo released by family shows Marine Lance Cpl. Victor Lu, of Los Angeles. Lu, 22, was killed Nov. 13 in Iraq after taking fire during the U.S.-led campaign to secure the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Los Angeles Times)

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Marine Lance Cpl. George J. Payton, of Culver City, Calif., is shown in an undated photo provided by family. Payton, 20, died Nov. 14, 2004, of combat wounds suffered in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, where Marines led a recent offensive against insurgents in Fallujah. The 20-year-old team leader was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Los Angeles Times)
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Lance Cpl. Abraham Simpson is shown in this photo, date and location unknown. Simpson, 19, of Chino, Calif., was killed in combat Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, in the al-Anbar province of Iraq. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force based in Camp Pendleton. (AP Photo/The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

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Pfc. Antwan Frazier, left, walks with other troops from the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Two battalions of the regiment are deploying to Iraq to provide additional troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)
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Spc. Glen Rice, right, kisses his fiance, Jessica Brown, while waiting to board a plane at Pope AFB, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Rice, a soldier from the 82nd Signal Battalion, is being deployed to Iraq along with elements of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, to provide extra troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)

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U.S. Army Reserve outgoing commander Lt. Col. Bryan Kelly, right, passes a flag to Brig Gen. Dean Sienko, second from right, during a 883rd Medical Company Change of Command ceremony in Boston, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, as incoming commander Col. John Looper, left, and 1st Sgt. Luis Herrera look on. Kelly, who led the Army Reserve's 883rd medical company during a six-month deployment to Iraq last year, left after a four-year stint. The medical company provided psychological support to Army soldiers in Iraq last year. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
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Spc. Ledric Calhoun, right, kisses his girlfriend, Pfc. Sheena Spivey, while waiting to board a plane at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Calhoun is with the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, which is deploying to Iraq to provide extra troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)

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Aimee Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., is one of a small group of demonstrators expressing support for the Iraqi Resistance during a demonstration against the war in Iraq on Boston Common in Boston, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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A US military observation balloon flies over Baghdad Friday Dec. 3 2004. Observation balloons, whose US military debut dates back to the American Civil War almost 150 years ago, are now making a comeback amid the high-tech U.S. military gagged in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Frantic)
Location BAGHDAD, Iraq
Creation Date 12/03/2004 07:28:53
Submit Date 12/04/2004 00:18:34
Credit Associated Press AP
Slug
Object Name IRAQ BALLOONS
Photographer DUSAN VRANIC Staff
Caption Writer DV MJM
Special Instructions TO GO WITH SLOBODAN LEKIC STORY SLUGGED--BC-ME-GEN-IRAQ-BALOONS
Negative Number
Image Number 7567932 (0064C)
[Caption and credits as written by AP.]

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David W. Qualls at home in Morrilton, Ark., on leave from Iraq. A member of the Arkansas National Guard, he is one of eight soldiers planning to file a lawsuit to prevent the Army from requiring them to stay on duty. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
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Army National Guard Spc. David Qualls, at podium, with one of his attorneys, Staughton Lynd, answers questions during a news conference to announce a lawsuit challenging the military's "stop loss" policy of involuntarily extending service in Iraq on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Washington. Qualls, along with seven other plantiffs, are seeking a court order requiring their immediate release from military service. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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In this photo made available by the family, Staff Sgt. Marvin Lee Trost III, 28, is shown with his wife, Sherry, and two of their three children, Aubry and Levin. Trost from northern Indiana who had just returned to Iraq after a visit home died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, when his vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade west of Baghdad, a relative said. Trost died in the attack near Camp Manhattan between Fallujah and Ramadi, his grandmother, Virginia Trost, said Monday, Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Photo courtesy of the family via The Goshen News)
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Army Spc. Sabrina Harman leaves a military courtroom after a pretrial hearing for Spc. Charles Graner on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Austin, Texas. Graner, Harman and another are members of the 372nd Military Police Company being tried at Fort Hood on charges related to the humiliation of prisoners in the fall of 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Harman is from Lorton, Va.(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

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Lance Cpl. Michael Philip Scarborough of Washington, Ga., is shown in this undated handout photo. Scarborough, 28, was scheduled to end his military duty in spring, but died along with 11 other Marines when an explosives-laden sport utility vehicle detonated next to his convoy Oct. 30 near Fallujah, Iraq. (AP Photo/family photo via the Athens Banner Herald)
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**FILE** This is a photo of Jose Guereca Jr., of Missouri City, Texas, which was provided by the family. Guereca was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 30, 2004, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. (AP Photo/Guereca family via Houston Chronicle, File)

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** FILE ** This is an undated photo provided by the family of Spc. Cari Anne Gasiewicz, 28, an interpreter with the Military Intelligence Unit of the U.S. Army, who died in Iraq Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, when two roadside bombs exploded on the convoy that was starting her on the journey home, military officials confirmed Monday (AP Photo/Family Photo)
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University of Nebraska-Omaha student Banaz Ali, 25, is shown Tuesday Nov. 23, 2004, in Omaha, Neb. The Kurdish woman from Iraq, whoo came to the United States legally in April in an exchange program funded by the U.S. State Department to generate good will in Muslim countries, was handcuffed, interrogated, searched and detained in an immigration cell because of a federal mix-up, the Omaha World-Herald reported Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Bundy)

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Joyce Adcock, of Goshen, Ind., reflects Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, on the life of her son, Staff Sgt. Marvin Lee Trost, III, 28, who was killed in Iraq Sunday, Dec. 5, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Jim Rider)
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Spc. David Mahlenbrock is shown in this undated photo. Mahlenbrock, 20, of New Jersey, was killed, Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/family photo via the Courier-Post)

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Kenny Muhaw fires his machine gun and hits an insurgent atop a squat building during a convoy's virtual run through the streets of Tikrit, Iraq at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)
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The company's logo at the entrance of Cotecna Inspection SA, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland. The company which is under investigation in connection with suspected courruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq on Thursday Dec. 2, 2004 denied any wrongdoing in its payments to U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan's son Kojo. (AP Photo/Keystone, /Martial Trezzini)

American marines searching for Iraqis suspected of being insurgents raided a home last week in Mahmudiya, a rebel hotbed near Baghdad. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)	American marines blindfolded suspects detained Saturday in Mahmudiya in raids to root out insurgents. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)
The marines set up a room at a military base to fingerprint and photograph suspects detained in the raids. (Jason P. Howe/World Picture News, for The New York Times, 5 December 2004)	U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner, center, is urged away from photographers by an unidentified member of his defense team as they arrive for a pretrial hearing on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, at Fort Hood, Texas. Graner, from Uniontown, Pa., is one of three members of the 372nd Military Police Company being tried at Fort Hood on charges in the humiliation of prisoners in the fall of 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
A US soldier guards the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 6 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	US troops inspect the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Medics treat Iraqi policeman Ahmed Ali in a Baqouba, Iraq hospital Monday Dec. 6, 2004, who was one of several people wounded when gunman tried to assasinate an Iraqi police colonel in Baqouba Monday morning. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)	Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni, right, looks in a viewfinder during the filming of his new movie " La Tigre e la Neve" (The Tiger and The Snow), in downtown Rome, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. The film, a comedy about the war in Iraq also starring Benigni's wife Nicoletta Braschi and French actor Jean Reno, is scheduled to be released in 2005. Man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
The President of the Interim Government of the Republic of Iraq, Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer, speaks with the media outside the White House after meeting with President Bush, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)	This undated photo released by family shows Marine Lance Cpl. Victor Lu, of Los Angeles. Lu, 22, was killed Nov. 13 in Iraq after taking fire during the U.S.-led campaign to secure the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Los Angeles Times)
Marine Lance Cpl. George J. Payton, of Culver City, Calif., is shown in an undated photo provided by family. Payton, 20, died Nov. 14, 2004, of combat wounds suffered in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, where Marines led a recent offensive against insurgents in Fallujah. The 20-year-old team leader was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Los Angeles Times)	Lance Cpl. Abraham Simpson is shown in this photo, date and location unknown. Simpson, 19, of Chino, Calif., was killed in combat Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, in the al-Anbar province of Iraq. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force based in Camp Pendleton. (AP Photo/The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
Pfc. Antwan Frazier, left, walks with other troops from the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Two battalions of the regiment are deploying to Iraq to provide additional troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)	Spc. Glen Rice, right, kisses his fiance, Jessica Brown, while waiting to board a plane at Pope AFB, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Rice, a soldier from the 82nd Signal Battalion, is being deployed to Iraq along with elements of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, to provide extra troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)
U.S. Army Reserve outgoing commander Lt. Col. Bryan Kelly, right, passes a flag to Brig Gen. Dean Sienko, second from right, during a 883rd Medical Company Change of Command ceremony in Boston, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, as incoming commander Col. John Looper, left, and 1st Sgt. Luis Herrera look on. Kelly, who led the Army Reserve's 883rd medical company during a six-month deployment to Iraq last year, left after a four-year stint. The medical company provided psychological support to Army soldiers in Iraq last year. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)	Spc. Ledric Calhoun, right, kisses his girlfriend, Pfc. Sheena Spivey, while waiting to board a plane at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Calhoun is with the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, which is deploying to Iraq to provide extra troops in advance of the January elections. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith)
Aimee Smith, of Cambridge, Mass., is one of a small group of demonstrators expressing support for the Iraqi Resistance during a demonstration against the war in Iraq on Boston Common in Boston, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)	A US military observation balloon flies over Baghdad Friday Dec. 3 2004. Observation balloons, whose US military debut dates back to the American Civil War almost 150 years ago, are now making a comeback amid the high-tech U.S. military gagged in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Frantic) Location BAGHDAD, Iraq Creation Date 12/03/2004 07:28:53 Submit Date 12/04/2004 00:18:34 Credit Associated Press AP Slug Object Name IRAQ BALLOONS Photographer DUSAN VRANIC Staff Caption Writer DV MJM Special Instructions TO GO WITH SLOBODAN LEKIC STORY SLUGGED--BC-ME-GEN-IRAQ-BALOONS Negative Number Image Number 7567932 (0064C) [Caption and credits as written by AP.]
David W. Qualls at home in Morrilton, Ark., on leave from Iraq. A member of the Arkansas National Guard, he is one of eight soldiers planning to file a lawsuit to prevent the Army from requiring them to stay on duty. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)	Army National Guard Spc. David Qualls, at podium, with one of his attorneys, Staughton Lynd, answers questions during a news conference to announce a lawsuit challenging the military's "stop loss" policy of involuntarily extending service in Iraq on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Washington. Qualls, along with seven other plantiffs, are seeking a court order requiring their immediate release from military service. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
In this photo made available by the family, Staff Sgt. Marvin Lee Trost III, 28, is shown with his wife, Sherry, and two of their three children, Aubry and Levin. Trost from northern Indiana who had just returned to Iraq after a visit home died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, when his vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade west of Baghdad, a relative said. Trost died in the attack near Camp Manhattan between Fallujah and Ramadi, his grandmother, Virginia Trost, said Monday, Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Photo courtesy of the family via The Goshen News)	Army Spc. Sabrina Harman leaves a military courtroom after a pretrial hearing for Spc. Charles Graner on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in Austin, Texas. Graner, Harman and another are members of the 372nd Military Police Company being tried at Fort Hood on charges related to the humiliation of prisoners in the fall of 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Harman is from Lorton, Va.(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
Lance Cpl. Michael Philip Scarborough of Washington, Ga., is shown in this undated handout photo. Scarborough, 28, was scheduled to end his military duty in spring, but died along with 11 other Marines when an explosives-laden sport utility vehicle detonated next to his convoy Oct. 30 near Fallujah, Iraq. (AP Photo/family photo via the Athens Banner Herald)	FILE This is a photo of Jose Guereca Jr., of Missouri City, Texas, which was provided by the family. Guereca was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 30, 2004, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. (AP Photo/Guereca family via Houston Chronicle, File)
FILE This is an undated photo provided by the family of Spc. Cari Anne Gasiewicz, 28, an interpreter with the Military Intelligence Unit of the U.S. Army, who died in Iraq Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, when two roadside bombs exploded on the convoy that was starting her on the journey home, military officials confirmed Monday (AP Photo/Family Photo)	University of Nebraska-Omaha student Banaz Ali, 25, is shown Tuesday Nov. 23, 2004, in Omaha, Neb. The Kurdish woman from Iraq, whoo came to the United States legally in April in an exchange program funded by the U.S. State Department to generate good will in Muslim countries, was handcuffed, interrogated, searched and detained in an immigration cell because of a federal mix-up, the Omaha World-Herald reported Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Bundy)
Joyce Adcock, of Goshen, Ind., reflects Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, on the life of her son, Staff Sgt. Marvin Lee Trost, III, 28, who was killed in Iraq Sunday, Dec. 5, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Jim Rider)	Spc. David Mahlenbrock is shown in this undated photo. Mahlenbrock, 20, of New Jersey, was killed, Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/family photo via the Courier-Post)
Kenny Muhaw fires his machine gun and hits an insurgent atop a squat building during a convoy's virtual run through the streets of Tikrit, Iraq at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)	The company's logo at the entrance of Cotecna Inspection SA, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland. The company which is under investigation in connection with suspected courruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq on Thursday Dec. 2, 2004 denied any wrongdoing in its payments to U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan's son Kojo. (AP Photo/Keystone, /Martial Trezzini)