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20 December 2004

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,346 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

A young Iraqi girl injured in Sunday's car bomb blast in the Shiite's Holy city of Najaf Iraq , sits in a hospital Monday Dec. 20 2004. The bomb blast during a funeral ceremony Sunday in Najaf killed killed at least 54 people and wounded 142. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	President Bush smiles while listening to a question during a press conference on the White House compound in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, in Washington. The hour-long question and answer session focused on problems with the war in Iraq, criticism of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush's federal spending plan and prospects for peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** A man, centre, lying down, is killed while another man walks to execute a second man, seen on his knees on the right, on Baghdad's Haifa Street , Sunday Dec. 19 2004 . About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month's elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said. Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Haifa Street, a thoroughfare running through central Baghdad and the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents. (AP Photo / Str)	** RECROPPED VERSION ** A gunman, left, shoots and kills a man lying in Baghdad's Haifa Street after being pulled from a car Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. The man at right on his knees was executed moments later, along with another man not shown in picture. About 30 militants hurling hand grenades and firing machine guns attacked a car carrying five people employed by the commission's Baghdad office and tried "to drag them out," said Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq. (AP Photo/Str)
A man, centre, lying down, is killed while another man walks to execute a second man, seen on his knees on the right, on Baghdad's Haifa Street , Sunday Dec. 19 2004 . About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month's elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said. Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Haifa Street, a thoroughfare running through central Baghdad and the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents. (AP Photo / Str)	A man, centre, lying down, is punched before being killed, while another man walks to execute a second man, seen on his knees on the right, on Baghdad's Haifa Street , Sunday Dec. 19 2004 . About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month's elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said. Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Haifa Street, a thoroughfare running through central Baghdad and the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents. (AP Photo / Str)
People stand around the body of a man who was killed on Baghdad's Haifa Street, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month's elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said. Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Baghdad's Haifa Street,a thoroughfare running through central Baghdad and the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents. (AP Photo / Str)	Two men lay dead after they were killed on Baghdad's Haifa Street, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month's elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said. Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Baghdad's Haifa Street,a thoroughfare running through central Baghdad and the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents. (AP Photo / Str)
Pallbearers carry the flag-draped casket of Marine Cpl. Kyle J. Renehan into St. Mary's of the Mills church Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, in Laurel, Md. Renehan was killed by mortar attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)	During an afternoon of sporadic battling with insurgents, U.S. Marines waiting to advance shelter inside the gateway to a home, one carrying a shoulder-launched missile, right, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents, who, while fleeing, mounted several more attacks against the Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
During a two-hour period of sporadic battling with insurgents, U.S. Marines sprint across a road to cover, one carrying a shoulder-launched missile, right, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents, who, while fleeing, mounted several more attacks against the Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	During a two-hour period of sporadic battling with insurgents, a U.S. Marine aims his rifle down a road, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents who, while fleeing, mounted several more attacks against the advancing Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
After an afternoon of sporadic battling with insurgents, a U.S. Marine officer and explosives expert approaches an unexploded insurgent rocket-propelled grenade, which he later blew up from a distance, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents who, while fleeing, mounted several more attacks against the advancing Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	During a two-hour period of sporadic battling with insurgents, a U.S. Marine runs across a road to cover while another Marine points his rifle down the road, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents who, while fleeing, mounted several more attacks against the advancing Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
U.S. Marines advance block by block during an afternoon of sporadic battling with insurgents, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to a hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents who while fleeing mounted several more unsuccessful attacks against the advancing Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	U.S. Marines examine the tail fins of a mortar which protrudes from the pavement inside a hospital compound which was shelled by insurgents, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Marines who were on a humanitarian mission to the hospital came under mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents who while fleeing mounted several more unsuccessful attacks against the advancing Marines. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Former National Guard Sgt. Peter Damon speaks at the site of the groundbreaking of his new home in Middleboro, Mass. Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. Damon, who lost his arms in Iraq, is having his new home built by Homes for our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds and renovates homes for soldiers severely disabled in the line of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/New Bedford Standard Times, David W. Oliveira)	President Bush answers questions during a press conference in the Executive Office Building, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, in Washington. The hour-long question and answer session focused on problems with the war in Iraq, criticism of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush's federal spending plan and prospects for peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
A man stands amid the debris of houses Monday Dec. 20 2004, which were destroyed in a powerful explosion Sunday in the Shiite Holy city of Najaf. The Najaf car bomb which was detonated Sunday in central Maidan Square, where a large crowd of people had gathered for the funeral procession of a tribal sheik, killed at least 54 people and wounded 142. (AP Photo / Alla al-Marjani)	Iraqis carry the coffin of a victim of a Sunday's car bomb explosion outside Imam Ali Shrine in the Shiite Holy city of Najaf Monday Dec. 20 2004. The Najaf car bomb, which detonated Sunday in central Maidan Square where a large crowd of people had gathered for the funeral procession of a tribal sheik, killed at least 54 people and wounded 142. (AP Photo/Alla al-Marjani)
People look at buildings destroyed in Sunday's car bomb blast in the Shiite's Holy city of Najaf Iraq, Monday Dec. 20 2004. The bomb blast during a funeral ceremony Sunday in Najaf killed at least 54 people and injured 142. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Iraqis crowd into a central square in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004, in this image made from television, after a car bomb exploded during a funeral procession for a tribal sheikh. This blast followed one about an hour before in Karbala. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **
** FOR USE WITH GEORGIA NEWS END OF YEAR PHOTO PACKAGE AS DESIRED-FILE ** Pati Hensley, center, is escorted by an unidentified family supporter as she leaves a Memorial service for her husband, Jack Hensley, who was slain in Ira	A U.S. Marine walks past a building, beneath a tangle of electrical wiring, during a foot patrol, in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
A U.S. Marine points his rifle, looking for potential threats, while in the background Iraqi children holding soccer balls given to them by the Marines hold out their hands as a Marine gives them sweets, during a patrol, in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	Marine Cpl. Andy Ferrer, left, and Cpl. Altaf Ramawad present Dana and Dawn Stewart of Lake Hughes, Calif., with a Purple Heart Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, during a memorial for their son, Marine Pfc. Ian Stewart, at The Oaks, a Christian camp and conference center, in lake Hughes California. Stewart was killed in action in the Anbar Province of Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Antelope Valley Press, Ron Siddle)
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 26 **Prof. George Wolfe poses at the Peace Studies Center at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., Dec. 17, 2004. Wolfe, who teaches peace studies, was targeted in a complaint by a student who supported the war in Iraq and believes Wolfe is anti-American. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)	Sarah Clairday, 19, of Salem, Ark., left, is presented with an American flag during the burial of her husband, Marine Cpl. Jason Clairday, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, at Camp Cemetery near Salem, Ark. Jason Clairday was killed in Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq. Her mother, Cindy McCullough, center, looks on. Woman at right is unidentified. (AP Photo/The Baxter Bulletin, Kevin Pieper)
Lea Gibbs, 10, is comforted by her uncle, Bret Gibbs, during a graveside service for her father, Army Sgt. 1st Class Todd Gibbs, Saturday, Dec., 18, 2004, near Grapeland, Texas. Gibbs was killed Dec. 7 in Khalidiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device blew up while his unit was patrolling the city. (AP Photo/The Lufkin Daily News, Joel Andrews)	The caisson carrying the casket of Lt. Andrew Shields heads to his burial site during funeral services at the New Prospect Baptist Church in Inman, S.C. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004. Shields, of Campobello, was killed in Mosul, Iraq when two helicopters accidentally collided Dec. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald Journal, Gerry Pate)
Lance Cpl. Franklin A. Sweger, from San Antonio, Texas, is shown in this undated family photo. Sweger, 24, died Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, as a result of enemy action in Iraq's Al Anbar Province, the U.S. Defense Department said. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. (AP Photo family photo via the San Antonio Express-News)	Spc. Craig Nelson, with the Louisiana National Guard, is shown in this undated photo provided by the Louisiana National Guard. Nelson was injured while on patrol in Iraq, the Guard announced Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. Nelson, of Bossier City, was wounded Thursday by an explosive device planted in the roadway, said Lt. Col. Pete Schneider, a spokesman for the Louisiana Guard. Nelson is part of the 256th Infantry Brigade, which was sent to Iraq in October. He was to be transported to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for treatment. (AP Photo/Louisiana National Guard, file)
Veteran Benson Yazzie salutes as Albuquerque firefighters carry the casket of Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Adlesperger into Calvary Chapel of Albuquerque, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. Adlesperger, 20, a Eldorado High School graduate, was killed in combat Dec. 9, 2004, in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Michael J. Gallegos)	In this photo provided by the U.S Army, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, left, shakes hands with Spc. Alexandra Avila of Allentown, Pa. ,after Wolfowitz addressed several hundred members of the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. The soldiers are expected to reach Iraq early next year. (AP Photo/Steven Frith, Fort Drum photographer)
A policeman walks past graffiti which reads "no to the intervention Yankee in Iraq and Venezuela," Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. The commission organizing elections in Iraq extended the deadline for filing candidates' lists for five days after several parties requested more time to prepare their slates. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez)	In this photograph released by the US Army, Sergeant First Class Eugene Hicks, of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade 25th Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team, kneels at a security post as a woman and child walk past during Operation Utica in Mosul, Iraq on December 10, 2004. (AP Photo/US Army, Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson)
Donna Schermer, right, gives her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Philip Schermer, a hug as his father, Philip ,wheeled him down the concourse at Mobile Regional Airport to welcome him home Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, in Mobile, Ala. Schermer was injured by a land mine explosion while on patrol in Iraq injuring his right foot. (AP Photo/Mobile Register, John David Mercer)	U.S. Marines participate in a sweep and patrol operation, in a residential neighborhood, in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Thousands of people, along with security officials , attend a ceremony for five Turkish policemen who were killed in a terrorist attack in Mosul, northern Iraq last week, in Ankara on Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. The five, Turkish embassy guards, were on their way from Turkey to Baghdad when they were ambushed in their car. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)	Iraqis shop for Christmas decorations in Baghdad Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Some 800,000 Christians live in Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ardell Ball (right) leads his team into a former agricultural building in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 9, 2004. The Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 23 will assess the building for damage. Ball is a Navy Reserve engineering aid. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st class Jeremy L. Wood, U.S. Navy. (Released)	U.S. Marines and Iraqi Armed Forces soldiers clear buildings during Operation al Fajr (New Dawn) in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 11, 2004. Al Fajr is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province of Iraq by units of the 1st Marine Division. DoD photo by Lance Cpl. James J. Vooris, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)