Eyeballing the Iraq Kill Zone - 9 Dec 04

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9 December 2004

1,326 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

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Smoke fills the air after a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of an Iraqi police station outside the gate of the Green Zone near the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2004. Coalition and Iraqi forces rushed to the scene to help the wounded and put out the fires. DoD photo by Spc. Katherine M. Roth, U.S. Army. (Released)

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In an undated photo released by the United States Marine Corps Cpl. In C. Kim is shown. Kim, of the Detroit suburb of Warren, Mich., died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004 after what the military described as a non-hostile vehicle incident in Iraq's Anbar province. His cousin, Kevin Cho, said the family was told it was a truck accident. Kim was assigned to the 9th Communications Battalion, First Marine Expeditionary Force, in Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/United States Marine Corps)
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Daniel Swift, center, is assisted after attending the funeral service for Army National Guard Sgt. and New York City firefighter Christian P. Engeldrum, in New York, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004. Swift, 24, and Engeldrum, 39, served in the same National Guard unit in Iraq and where together when Engeldrum was killed Nov. 29, 2004 after their vehicle came under attack outside Baghdad. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Army National Guard Master Sgt. Donald Labunski, left, escorts Sgt. David Fisher's parents Victoria Dimura and John Fisher from St. Brigid's Church in Watervliet, N.Y. following funeral services Thursday, Dec. 8, 2004. Fisher, 21, died Dec. 1 when the Humvee in which he was riding overturned in Baghdad, the Defense Department said. He was a member of the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow'' Division, based in nearby Troy, and was serving in Iraq with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 101st Cavalry Regiment. (AP Photo/The Record, Mike McMahon)
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Major Steve Hines of Muncie, Ind. and a member of the 113th Engineer Battalion of the Indiana Army National Guard walks his six-year-old twin daughters Abby, right, and Kelly to their car after a departure ceremony Thursday morning, Dec. 9, 2004, at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind. The group will leave Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, for Iraq. (AP Photo/The Star Press, Kurt Hostetler)

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In a picture released by the Lucero family, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Lucero is seen holding his son, Joey, for the first time in a not dated file photo. Lucero was killed Saturday Nov. 27, 2004 in Iraq during a firefight with insurgents. (AP Photo/Family Picture via Arizona Daily Star) ** Mandatory Credit **
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Capt. Louis Gianoulakis, left, Sgt. First Class Michael Land, and Major Timothy Gauthier, right, participate in a memorial service at Fort Lewis, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, for two soldiers killed Saturday in Iraq. The dead soldiers are SSgt. Salamo Tuialuuluu, 23, and Sgt. David Mitts, 24, members of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). The two helmets on rifles is a symbol of the fallen soldiers. (AP Photo/Bruce Kellman, Pool)

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Family members hug during burial services for Spc. Daryl A. Davis, formerly of Spencer, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, at the Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Iowa. Davis, 20, was killed in a military motor vehicle accident in Iraq. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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John Waltz Jr., 2, of Manchester, Pa., holds the hand of his father, Staff Sgt. 1st Class John Waltz, as troops of the 254th Quartermaster Co. from Spring Garden Twp, Pa: prepare to board buses Thursday morning, December 9, 2004, for deployment to Fort Dix, N.J..The company will be trained at Fort Dix before heading to Iraq. (AP Photo/The York Dispatch, John Pavoncello)

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Mourners gather around a portrait of SSgt. Salamo Tuialuuluu and symbolic boots, rifles and helmets for he and Sgt. David Mitts Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 after a memorial service at Fort Lewis, Wash. for the two soldiers killed Saturday in Iraq. Tuialuuluu, 23, and Mitts, 24, were members of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). (AP Photo/Bruce Kellman, Pool)
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A man cheers next to burning pick up trucks of Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004 after they were hit by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo)

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US troops arrive at the site where a car bomb exploded in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004. A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in this northern city killed three Iraqis, injures seven, the police and U.S. military said. (AP Photo)
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Iraqis carry shoulders high a masked gunman in front of a burning pick-up truck of the Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004 after it was hit by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo)

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In this picture released by Peace Boat, members of a Tokyo-based civic group gathered outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Thursday, Dec.9, 2004 to protest over Japan's decision to extend the deployment of its troops in Iraq. About 20 members of Peace Boat, a Japan-based nongovernmental organization working for peace and human rights, took part, holding up a protest banner and calling for the Self-Defense Forces to be pulled out. (AP Photo/HO)
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US troops arrive at the site where a car bomb exploded in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004. A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in this northern city killed three Iraqis, injures seven, the police and U.S. military said. (AP Photo)

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A firetruck carries the casket of firefighter Christian P. Engeldrum during a funeral procession in New York, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. Engeldrum, 39, a former police officer and five-year fire veteran who responded to the 2001 World Trade Center attack , was killed Nov. 29 when his vehicle came under attack outside Baghdad, Iraq. He is the first New York City employee to die in Iraq since the war began. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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U.S. Army Spc Thomas Wilson, left, speaks to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, not pictured, during Rumsfeld's visit to Camp Buehring, 120 km (74 miles) north of Kuwait City, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. Wilson, of the 278th Regimental Combat Team that is comprised mainly of citizen soldiers of the Tennessee Army National Guard, asked Rumsfeld why vehicle armor is still in short supply, nearly three years after the war in Iraq began. A day after being challenged by a soldier on the U.S. Army's failure to provide adequate armor for vehicles used in Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday he was pleased to hear the gripe and expected that efforts would be made to resolve the problem. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
Special Defense Department Briefing on Armored Vehicles, December 9, 2004:
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041209-1765.html

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Civilian contractors install a gunner's shield atop a Humvee from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at an armor installation facility in Kuwait on July 17, 2004. The gunner's shield is part of the up-armor being placed on the expeditionary unit's vehicles. Up-armor offers the Marines in the vehicle 360 degrees of protection. DoD photo by Sgt. Zachary A. Bathon, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
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U.S. Navy Chaplain Lt. Kenny Lee talks with Lance Cpl. Kris Latorre during Operation al Fajr (New Dawn) in Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 29, 2004. Operation al Fajr is an offensive operation to eradicate insurgent forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. Latorre is assigned to 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 3rd Marine Regiment. DoD photo by Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)

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U.S. Army military police use an explosive detection dog to search all vehicles in the area after a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of an Iraqi police station outside the gate of the Green Zone near the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2004. The military police are assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. DoD photo by Spc. Katherine M. Roth, U.S. Army. (Released)

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Civilian contractors prepare to install an up-armored side panel to a seven-ton truck at an armor installation facility in Kuwait on July 17, 2004. The side paneling is part of the up-armor being placed on 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit vehicles. DoD photo by Sgt. Zachary A. Bathon, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)

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U.S. Air Force airmen from the 455th Explosive Ordnance Group, Explosive Ordnance Disposal set C-4 charges on a weapons cache to be destroyed at the East River Range, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. DoD photo by Sgt. J. Antonio Francis, U.S. Army. (Released)
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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Keener prepares a 105mm rocket to be fired at a weapons cache at the East River Range near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. Members of the Air Force's 455th Explosive ordnance Group set C-4 charges on the cache in order to destroy it. DoD photo by Sgt. J. Antonio Francis, U.S. Army. (Released)

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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to service members during a town hall style meeting at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on Dec. 8, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Kuwait to meet and talk with deployed troops. Rumsfeld will later meet with the Kuwaiti leadership to thank them for their support in the global war on terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left), U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, commander, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan (center) and Vice President Richard B. Cheney receive a Afghanistan Military Update briefing at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Dec. 7, 2004. Rumsfeld and Cheney are in Afghanistan to attend the first Presidential Inauguration of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and to visit troops deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

In an undated photo released by the United States Marine Corps Cpl. In C. Kim is shown. Kim, of the Detroit suburb of Warren, Mich., died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004 after what the military described as a non-hostile vehicle incident in Iraq's Anbar province. His cousin, Kevin Cho, said the family was told it was a truck accident. Kim was assigned to the 9th Communications Battalion, First Marine Expeditionary Force, in Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/United States Marine Corps)	Daniel Swift, center, is assisted after attending the funeral service for Army National Guard Sgt. and New York City firefighter Christian P. Engeldrum, in New York, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004. Swift, 24, and Engeldrum, 39, served in the same National Guard unit in Iraq and where together when Engeldrum was killed Nov. 29, 2004 after their vehicle came under attack outside Baghdad. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Army National Guard Master Sgt. Donald Labunski, left, escorts Sgt. David Fisher's parents Victoria Dimura and John Fisher from St. Brigid's Church in Watervliet, N.Y. following funeral services Thursday, Dec. 8, 2004. Fisher, 21, died Dec. 1 when the Humvee in which he was riding overturned in Baghdad, the Defense Department said. He was a member of the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow'' Division, based in nearby Troy, and was serving in Iraq with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 101st Cavalry Regiment. (AP Photo/The Record, Mike McMahon)	Major Steve Hines of Muncie, Ind. and a member of the 113th Engineer Battalion of the Indiana Army National Guard walks his six-year-old twin daughters Abby, right, and Kelly to their car after a departure ceremony Thursday morning, Dec. 9, 2004, at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind. The group will leave Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, for Iraq. (AP Photo/The Star Press, Kurt Hostetler)
In a picture released by the Lucero family, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Lucero is seen holding his son, Joey, for the first time in a not dated file photo. Lucero was killed Saturday Nov. 27, 2004 in Iraq during a firefight with insurgents. (AP Photo/Family Picture via Arizona Daily Star) Mandatory Credit	Capt. Louis Gianoulakis, left, Sgt. First Class Michael Land, and Major Timothy Gauthier, right, participate in a memorial service at Fort Lewis, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, for two soldiers killed Saturday in Iraq. The dead soldiers are SSgt. Salamo Tuialuuluu, 23, and Sgt. David Mitts, 24, members of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). The two helmets on rifles is a symbol of the fallen soldiers. (AP Photo/Bruce Kellman, Pool)
Family members hug during burial services for Spc. Daryl A. Davis, formerly of Spencer, Iowa, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, at the Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Iowa. Davis, 20, was killed in a military motor vehicle accident in Iraq. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)	John Waltz Jr., 2, of Manchester, Pa., holds the hand of his father, Staff Sgt. 1st Class John Waltz, as troops of the 254th Quartermaster Co. from Spring Garden Twp, Pa: prepare to board buses Thursday morning, December 9, 2004, for deployment to Fort Dix, N.J..The company will be trained at Fort Dix before heading to Iraq. (AP Photo/The York Dispatch, John Pavoncello)
Mourners gather around a portrait of SSgt. Salamo Tuialuuluu and symbolic boots, rifles and helmets for he and Sgt. David Mitts Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 after a memorial service at Fort Lewis, Wash. for the two soldiers killed Saturday in Iraq. Tuialuuluu, 23, and Mitts, 24, were members of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team). (AP Photo/Bruce Kellman, Pool)	A man cheers next to burning pick up trucks of Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004 after they were hit by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo)
US troops arrive at the site where a car bomb exploded in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004. A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in this northern city killed three Iraqis, injures seven, the police and U.S. military said. (AP Photo)	Iraqis carry shoulders high a masked gunman in front of a burning pick-up truck of the Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004 after it was hit by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo)
In this picture released by Peace Boat, members of a Tokyo-based civic group gathered outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Thursday, Dec.9, 2004 to protest over Japan's decision to extend the deployment of its troops in Iraq. About 20 members of Peace Boat, a Japan-based nongovernmental organization working for peace and human rights, took part, holding up a protest banner and calling for the Self-Defense Forces to be pulled out. (AP Photo/HO)	US troops arrive at the site where a car bomb exploded in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9 2004. A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in this northern city killed three Iraqis, injures seven, the police and U.S. military said. (AP Photo)
A firetruck carries the casket of firefighter Christian P. Engeldrum during a funeral procession in New York, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. Engeldrum, 39, a former police officer and five-year fire veteran who responded to the 2001 World Trade Center attack , was killed Nov. 29 when his vehicle came under attack outside Baghdad, Iraq. He is the first New York City employee to die in Iraq since the war began. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)	U.S. Army Spc Thomas Wilson, left, speaks to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, not pictured, during Rumsfeld's visit to Camp Buehring, 120 km (74 miles) north of Kuwait City, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. Wilson, of the 278th Regimental Combat Team that is comprised mainly of citizen soldiers of the Tennessee Army National Guard, asked Rumsfeld why vehicle armor is still in short supply, nearly three years after the war in Iraq began. A day after being challenged by a soldier on the U.S. Army's failure to provide adequate armor for vehicles used in Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday he was pleased to hear the gripe and expected that efforts would be made to resolve the problem. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari) Special Defense Department Briefing on Armored Vehicles, December 9, 2004: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20041209-1765.html
Civilian contractors install a gunner's shield atop a Humvee from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at an armor installation facility in Kuwait on July 17, 2004. The gunner's shield is part of the up-armor being placed on the expeditionary unit's vehicles. Up-armor offers the Marines in the vehicle 360 degrees of protection. DoD photo by Sgt. Zachary A. Bathon, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)	U.S. Navy Chaplain Lt. Kenny Lee talks with Lance Cpl. Kris Latorre during Operation al Fajr (New Dawn) in Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 29, 2004. Operation al Fajr is an offensive operation to eradicate insurgent forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. Latorre is assigned to 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 3rd Marine Regiment. DoD photo by Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
U.S. Army military police use an explosive detection dog to search all vehicles in the area after a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of an Iraqi police station outside the gate of the Green Zone near the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2004. The military police are assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. DoD photo by Spc. Katherine M. Roth, U.S. Army. (Released)	Civilian contractors prepare to install an up-armored side panel to a seven-ton truck at an armor installation facility in Kuwait on July 17, 2004. The side paneling is part of the up-armor being placed on 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit vehicles. DoD photo by Sgt. Zachary A. Bathon, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
U.S. Air Force airmen from the 455th Explosive Ordnance Group, Explosive Ordnance Disposal set C-4 charges on a weapons cache to be destroyed at the East River Range, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. DoD photo by Sgt. J. Antonio Francis, U.S. Army. (Released)	U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Derek Keener prepares a 105mm rocket to be fired at a weapons cache at the East River Range near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Dec. 2, 2004. Members of the Air Force's 455th Explosive ordnance Group set C-4 charges on the cache in order to destroy it. DoD photo by Sgt. J. Antonio Francis, U.S. Army. (Released)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to service members during a town hall style meeting at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on Dec. 8, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Kuwait to meet and talk with deployed troops. Rumsfeld will later meet with the Kuwaiti leadership to thank them for their support in the global war on terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)	Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left), U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, commander, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan (center) and Vice President Richard B. Cheney receive a Afghanistan Military Update briefing at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Dec. 7, 2004. Rumsfeld and Cheney are in Afghanistan to attend the first Presidential Inauguration of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and to visit troops deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)