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12 February 2005.

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,502 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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


Photo captions by Associated Press (bottom two by DoD).
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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top rown from left: Capt. Lyle L. Gordon, Pfc. Daniel F. Guastaferro, Lance Cpl. Joseph B. Spence, Lance Cpl. Michael L. Starr Jr., Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Stevens, Sgt. Jesse W. Strong, Lance Cpl. Harry R. Swain IV, Sgt. Brett D. Swank, Sgt. Robert W. Sweeney III, Staff Sgt. Thomas E. Vitagliano, Cpl. Christopher L. Weaver, and Spc. Viktar V. Yolkin. (AP Photo/Files)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top rown from left: Spc. Joshua S. Marcum, Spc. Jeremy W. McHalffey, Pfc. James H. Miller IV, Spc. Warren Murphy, Lance Cpl. Mourad Ragimov, Lance Cpl. Hector Ramos, Cpl. Nathan A. Schubert, Lance Cpl. Nazario Serrano, Sgt. Stephen R. Sherman, Lance Cpl. Jason Smith, Cpl. Matthew R. Smith, and Spc. Michael J. Smith. (AP Photo/Files)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top rown from left: Lance Cpl. Brian C. Hopper, Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House, Sgt. Thomas Houser, Lance Cpl. Saeed Jafarkhani-Torshizi Jr., Spc. Alain L. Kamolvathin, Cpl. Sean P. Kelly, Staff Sgt. Dexter S. Kimble, Pfc. Jesus A. Leon-Perez, Lance Cpl. Karl R. Linn, Lance Cpl. Fred L. Maciel, Sgt. 1st Class Brian A. Mack, and Lance Cpl. Sean P. Maher. (AP Photo/Files)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top rown from left: Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Jr., Spc. Huey Fassbender, Sgt. Michael W. Finke Jr., Cpl. Joseph E. Fite, Pfc. Armand Frickey, Cpl. Timothy M. Gibson, Cpl. Richard A. Gilbert Jr., Cpl. Kyle J. Grimes, Lance Cpl. Tony Hernandez, 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe, Lance Cpl. Matthew W. Holloway, and Cpl. Paul C. Holter III. (AP Photo/Files)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq are seen in this photo combo. Top rown from left: Sgt. Leonard W. Adams, Capt. Paul C. Alaniz, Sgt. Christopher Babin, Cpl. Jonathan S. Beatty, Spc. Bradley Bergeron, Capt. Orlando A. Bonilla, Cpl. Jonathan W. Bowling, Spc. Jimmy D. Buie, Spc. Taylor J. Burk, Lance Cpl. Julio C. Cisneros Alvarez, Sgt. 1st Class Kurt Comeaux, and Sgt. 1st Class Sean M. Cooley. (AP Photo/Files)

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Janette Trout, right, the stepmother of Lance Cpl. Tony Hernandez, receives a hug from family friend Jenni Garavaglia after the memorial sevice for the Marine and three of his comrades at Miramar Marine Corp Air Station in San Diego Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Marines were killed along with 26 other Marines and one Navy sailor in a helicopter crash in Iraq on January, 26, 2005. More than 500 mourners paid tribute Friday to the four Texans who were among the 31 killed.(AP Photo/Don Boomer, Pool)

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Maj. Gen. Harold Cross, left, presents the American flag to Laura Cooley, wife of Sgt. 1st Class Sean Cooley at his funeral in Benndale, Miss., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. Cooley, 35, was killed in Iraq when an improvised explosive device exploded, Feb. 3, near his vehicle, Guard officials said. He was assigned to the Mississippi Army National Guard's Company B, 150th Combat Engineer Battalion headquartered in Lucedale, Miss. (AP Photo/The Hattiesburg American, Stephen Jones)

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Maj. Gen. Harold Cross, left, hands a folded flag to the parents of Sgt. 1st Class Sean Cooley at his funeral in Benndale, Miss., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. Cooley, 35, was killed in Iraq when an improvised explosive device exploded, Feb. 3, near his vehicle, Guard officials said. He was assigned to the Mississippi Army National Guard's Company B, 150th Combat Engineer Battalion headquartered in Lucedale, Miss. (AP Photo/The Hattiesburg American, Stephen Jones)

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** FILE ** This March 13, 2004, photo provided by the family showing U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Dustin M. Shumney of Vallejo, Calif., who was killed in a helicopter crash near Ar Rutbah, Iraq, Jan. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Dallas Morning News)

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Deborah Bundy, of Milan, Ill., the mother of Sgt. Jessica M. Housby, 23, of the 1644 Transportation Unit of the Illinois National Guard based in Rock Falls, fights back the tears Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, while talking about how much she is going to miss her daughter. Sgt. Housby was killed in Iraq Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near the truck she was driving in the Baghdad area. Bundy is holding a photo with her daughter, pictured at left, and her cousin and fellow National Guardsman Robert Cather. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers run toward a U.S. tank, on right, that had been struck by two rocket-propelled grenades during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, RPGs and small arms. The tank and a Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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An Iraqi man sits in the street as U.S. forces engage in a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in the northern town of Mosul in Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers sort weapons and munitions found inside a car during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers emerge from a Stryker combat vehicle during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. At least nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment CSM Rob Prosser returns fire during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment 1LT Jeremy Rockwell runs past a burning car during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers take cover during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers briefly detain Iraqi men found hiding around a truck in the middle of a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers return fire during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment SPC Chris Espindola searches near a burning building during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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A U.S. Army interpreter directs Iraqi civilians to transport a wounded bystander to a local hospital during a four-hour running gun battle between U.S. and insurgent forces in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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A U.S. Army interpreter checks a wounded Iraqi bystander during a four-hour running gun battle with insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment LTC Erik Kurilla, right, and an Iraqi interpreter question Iraqi men in a trucking yard while searching for insurgents after a four-hour running gun battle in Mosul, Iraq Saturday Feb. 12, 2005. Nine insurgents were killed after attacking U.S. troops with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. A U.S. Army tank and Stryker combat vehicle were disabled by RPG attacks, but there were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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Marine Capt. Steve Kintzley, 33, from Phoenix, Ariz., waves to Iraqis from a Humvee as Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Army soldiers drive through the streets of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Marines, who are a reconnaissance detachment with the 11th MEU, were showing the Army soldiers how to get around Najaf, before returning home in the next few days. (AP Photo/North County Times, Hayne Palmour IV)

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An unidentified woman whose son was injured, reacts after a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the mostly Shiite town of Musayyib, Iraq, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, killing 17 and wounding 21, police and hospital officials said. The attack came a day after 23 people were killed in two attacks aimed at the Shiite community. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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An arrested suspect, right, sits in the back of a police pickup truck, after a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the mostly Shiite town of Musayyib, Iraq, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, killing 17 and wounding 21, police and hospital officials said. The attack came a day after 23 people were killed in two attacks aimed at the Shiite community. (AP Photo/Haidar Fatehi)

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Dickey and Mary Gordon, the father and mother of Capt. Lyle Gordon, talked about their son after the memorial sevice for the Marine and three of his comrades at Miramar Marine Corp Air Station in San Diego on Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Marines were killed along with 26 other Marines and one Navy sailor in a helicopter crash in Iraq on Jan. 26. More than 500 mourners paid tribute Friday to four Texans who were among the 31 killed. (AP Photo/Don Boomer, Pool)

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Spc. David Bradford is greeted by his wife, Alisha, during a welcome home ceremony for members of the Ohio National Guard's Company B, 216th Engineer Battalion at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The unit had been deployed for more than a yiear in support of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Portsmouth Daily Times, Scott Osborne)

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In this photo released by the U.S. Army, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visits Sgt. Sean Ferguson, now a two-time Purple Heart recipient, at the military hospital in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Sgt. John Franzen)

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Former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, left, looks toward Iraqi National Congress spokeman Entifadh Qanbar during a talk on the situation in Iraq before the Hudson Institute in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

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A man and child lie injured in al-Yarmouk hospital after a bomb exploded in Dora, south of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The blast injured four after children playing in a rubbish dump moved the device. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)

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In this photo released by the Department of Defense U.S. Army Commander U.S. Central Command Gen. John Abizaid answers a reporter's question during a media availability with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, center, and U.S. Army Commander of Multi-National Force Iraq Gen. George Casey Jr., right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq to meet with the senior leadership and the troops deployed there. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Staff Sgt. Brett McMillan)

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David Rozelle, who lost his right foot fight in the war, is shown Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, on Vail Mountain in Vail, Colo., while skiing with other people with disabilities. Rozelle, a 32-year-old Army captain is heading back to Iraq next month. (AP Photo/Vail Daily, Shane Macomber)

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Alabama National Guard medic, Sgt. Charles Wayne La Porte, is shown in this Nov. 25, 2003, photo taken in Baghdad, Iraq. La Porte, a Mobile Fire Department paramedic, held Saraland, (Ala.) Police at bay for three hours, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005, before surrendering peacefully. Authorities said La Porte had a loaded AR-15 rifle, and a .40-caliber handgun. La Porte surrendered without a shot fired during negotiations with Saraland police and apolice chaplain. He has been charged with a misdemeanor, disturbing the peace.(AP Photo / Mobile Register, Mike Marshall)

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Cpt. Ingrid Tighe kisses her dog, Sadie, after greeting her during a homecoming celebration for soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005. Almost 200 members from various units returned after a year-long deployment to Iraq. (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Steve Traynor)

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Second prize General News Singles category of the World Press Photo 2005 contest by American photographer David Robert Swanson of the Philadelphia Inquirer showing a U.S. soldier in ambush in Iraq, April 6 2004. This material is for single publications in print or for a temporary online publication, and may be used exclusively to publicize the 2005 World Press Photo contest and exhibition. It may not be published as part of an article or any other item that contains no direct link to World Press Photo and its activities without prior permission from the photographer or agency.(AP Photo/David Robert Swanson/Philadelphia Inquirer) ***NO SALES NO CROPPING NO MANIPULATION***

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Sgt. Kurt Heitz, of Shelton, Conn., is hugged by his girlfriend, Elena Tamayo, of Wallingford, Conn., after he and other members of the 118th Medical Battalion returned for deployment in Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, at Newington High School in Newington, Conn. The couple has been together for 32 months to the day, more than half of which, Heitz was away in Iraq. (AP Photo/Connecticut Post, Johnathon Henninger)

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Maj. Richard Lipe, of Searcy, Ark., an operations officer in charge of a six-man team from the Camp Robinson-based National Guard Marksmanship Training Unit, hugs his wife, Marlene, after he and his team returned to Little Rock, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, from a tour of duty in Iraq. Lipe and his team provided sniper training to active duty soldiers on the ground in Iraq, including several members of Arkansas' 39th Brigade Combat Team. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

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Sgt. Corey Noder, right, of St. Louis, is embraced by his wife, Courtenay, at Columbus Municipal Airport in Columbus, Ind., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. Noder and other members of the 106th Aviation Battalion returned home after a 14-month deployment in Iraq. The soldiers with the battalion were honored with a ceremony at the airport following their arrival. (AP Photo/The Republic, Mike Dickbernd)

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Hasan Bani, 31, left, who was injured in a car bomb attack in in the Baladiyat district of Baghdad, reaches up to his uncle Jum'a Abbas at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. Elsewhere in the country a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad Saturday, killing 17 and wounding 21, police and hospital officials said, a day after 23 were killed in two attacks aimed at the Shiite community. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

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The coffins of three victims are carried through the streets after a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the mostly Shiite town of Musayyib, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005, killing at least 17 and wounding some 21 others, police and hospital officials said. The attack came a day after 23 people were killed in two attacks aimed at the Shiite community. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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** CORRECTING NAME OF JUDGE ** Two of the sons of Taha al-Amiri, a former chief judge at Basra's highest criminal court, comfort each other after their father was gunned down in the southern city of Basra, Iraq Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers patrol in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. Earlier Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld addressed commanders and troops at a U.S. military airfield in Mosul. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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A U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldier patrols behind Sudanese Iraqi men outside a tea shop in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. Earlier Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld addressed commanders and troops at a U.S. military airfield in Mosul. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay pursues an insurgent sniper after two soldiers were shot and wounded, one in the hand and one in the leg, in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005. An Iraqi bystander was also wounded in fighting in Mosul Thursday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers pursue an insurgent sniper after two soldiers were shot and wounded, one in the hand and one in the leg, in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005. An Iraqi bystander was also wounded in fighting in Mosul Thursday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers patrol in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005. Two U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi bystander were wounded in fighting in Mosul Thursday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers pursue an insurgent sniper after two soldiers were shot and wounded, one in the hand and the other in the leg, in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005. An Iraqi bystander was also wounded in fighting in Mosul Thursday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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The mangled shell of a car that was passing by at the time that an early morning car bomb exploded in Tahrir square in the heart of the city as a U.S. military convoy was passing through the area, in central Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, killing at least four people, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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The scene of an early morning car bomb which exploded in Tahrir square in central Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, killing at least four people, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Imad Akrawi)

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** FILE ** Indiana National Guard Cpl. Dustin Berg, of Ferdinand, Ind., showed his scar to a reporter at Camp Atterbury, Ind., in this Feb. 19, 2004 file photo, prior to a ceremony where he received a Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal with Valor. Berg is accused of killing an Iraqi police officer and using the officers gun to inflict the wound for which Berg received the Purple Heart, faces a possible court-martial on charges he killed an Iraqi police officer and then shot himself, the Army said Wednesday, Feb 9, 2005. (AP Photo/The Herald, David Pierini)

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Marine Cpl. Travis Eichelberger is shown with his Purple Heart that was awarded to him for an injury he received in the early part of the war in Iraq, at his parents home Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005, in Atchison, Kan. Eichelberger, 22, is one of 11 Marines who have received "letters of error" within the past two months telling them that they were given their medals by mistake. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Chris Ochsner)

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02/10/05 - Patients are transported by helicopter from the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Baghdad, Iraq, on Feb. 10, 2005. Soldiers of the 86th CSH deployed over 500 Soldiers from Fort Campbell, Ky. to Baghdad, Iraq. The 86th CSH made history by being the first unit in combat to collect platelets from Soldiers using a technique called aphaeresis. Commander Colonel Casper Jones remarked, "Our Eagle Medics are taking care of the wounded and sick regardless of their origins, beliefs, or creed. We are saving life, limb, and eyesight practically every day." (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Dave Ahlschwede) (Released)

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02/10/05 - Spc. Melissa Ault hands out clothes to Afghan girls in Qalah Musa Bala, Afghanistan, on Feb. 10, 2005. Ault is assigned to the 33rd Area Support Group, part of the Illinois Army National Guard. DoD photo by Spc. Johnny R. Aragon, U.S. Army. (Released)