18 February 2005.

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,519 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.
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**ED'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT** An unidentified U.S. soldier looks down at the head of the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the Al Bayaa mosque in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of western Baghdad in Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshippers ripped through Baghdad during Friday prayers and killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens, officials said, on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday of Ashoura. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

23 February 2005.

Note: This photo, another which milks the Iraqi war photo pathos frenzy, came from an AP public archive of photos, and had no copyright notice or public-use restriction on it, despite the following presumptuous e-mail, another bastard idiocy of the DMCA:

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Preston presented no proof of copyright, no proof of identity, no evidence to support his copyright-scam; see http://cryptome.org/dmca-attack.htm

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Airmen from Dyess Air Force Base and firefighters carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Ray Rangel after a memorial service in Abilene, Texas, Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Rangel, originally of San Antonio, was killed Feb. 13, while on a rescue mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Abilene Reporter-News, Josie Liming)

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Aqil, who wanted only to give his first name, cries in grief on the lid of his brother Abu-Zainab's coffin at the al-Yarmouk hospital, following a suicide bomb-blast at the al-Khadimain mosque in the Dora neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshipers ripped through Baghdad during Friday prayers and killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens, officials said, on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday of Ashoura. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

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Vivian Johnson Huffman talks to reporters in her home near Orangeburg, S.C., home about seeing seeing two men in uniform approach her door Wednesday evening with news of the death of her daughter, Army Spc. Katrina Johnson, in Iraq. Johnson died Wednesday in Baghdad after the truck she was riding in overturned, family members said. (AP Photo/The Times and Democrat, Van Hope)

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Mississippi National Guard Sgt. Timothy Osbey is shown in this photo provided by his family. Spc. Joseph Andrew ``Drew'' Rahaim, 22, of Laurel, Miss., and Osbey, 29, of Magnolia, died Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, in Iraq when their vehicle rolled over into a canal after the roadway collapsed, the Mississippi National Guard said Thursday. Their deaths brings the number to four fatalities from the 155th Brigade Combat Team that trained at Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg and departed for Iraq in January. (AP Photo/The Enterprise-Journal via Osbey Family Photo)

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Mollie Kennedy, an aunt of Spc. Joseph A. Rahaim of Laurel, Miss., talks on the telephone to relatives Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, in Laurel, Miss., about her nephew being killed in Iraq. Spc. Rahaim was deployed with the 155th Armored Combat Team to Iraq where he was killed Wednesday in a vehicle wreck. (AP Photo/Hattiesburg American, George Clark)

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This is a 2004 photograph of Mississippi National Guard Spc. Joseph Andrew "Drew" Rahaim, 22, of Laurel, Miss., provided by the Rahaim family. Rahaim and fellow guardsman, Sgt. Timothy Osbey, 29, of Magnolia, died in Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, when their vehicle rolled over into a canal after the roadway collapsed, the Mississippi National Guard said Thursday. Their deaths bring to four the number of fatalities from the 155th Brigade Combat Team that trained at Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg and departed for Iraq in January. Eight Mississippi Guard soldiers have died on deployment in Iraq. (AP Photo/Rahaim Family via The Laurel Leader-Call)

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This undated family photo shows Spc. Dakotah L. Gooding, of Des Moines, Iowa. Gooding, 21, was one of three killed Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, when their armored Humvee overturned into a canal near the town of Balad, Iraq, during a combat patrol, the U.S. Department of Defense reported. Gooding was assigned to the Army's 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga. (AP Photo/Family photo via The Des Moines Register)

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** FILE ** Sgt. Chad W. Lake, 26, shown in an undated file photo, was killed in Iraq when the military vehicle he shared with two other soldiers overturned into a canal, officials said Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Star-Banner, file)

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Capt. Gilbert A. Munoz, 29, a Special Forces detachment commander assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, N.C. He died Feb. 9 of pneumonia after returning from a trip to Iraq, according to an autopsy report. (AP Photo/U.S. Army via The Fayettville Observer)

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This is a photo of Mississippi National Guard Spc. Robert Allen McNail was provided by the McNail family. McNail, 30, shown in Jan. 2005 photo, at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Miss., was killed Friday, Feb. 11, 2005, in a vehicle accident in Iraq, Guard officials said. (AP Photo/The Meridian Star via the McNail family)

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In this image taken from insurgents video released Wednesday Feb. 16, 2005 a woman who identified herself as kidnapped Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena appears pleading for her life and calling on U.S.-led troops to pull out of Iraq. Sgrena appeared sobbing and clasping her hands together as she makes appeals to camera in the video delivered anonymously to the offices of APTN in Baghdad, Iraq. In the upper left corner of the image, the words "mujahedeen Without Borders" appears in digital red Arabic script. (AP Photo/Insurgent video via APTN ) ** PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE UNABLE TO AUTH

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In this image taken from insurgents video released Wednesday Feb. 16, 2005 a woman who identified herself as kidnapped Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena appears pleading for her life and calling on U.S.-led troops to pull out of Iraq. Sgrena appeared sobbing and clasping her hands together as she makes appeals to camera in the video delivered anonymously to the offices of APTN in Baghdad, Iraq. In the upper left corner of the image, the words "mujahedeen Without Borders" appears in digital red Arabic script. (AP Photo/Insurgent video via APTN ) ** PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE UNABLE TO AUTHENICATE THE CONTENT OF THIS INSURGENT VIDEO ** TV OUT **

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Kadim Muhsin is taken on a stretcher into the hospital following a suicide bomb-blast at the al-Khadimain mosque in the Dora neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshipers ripped through Baghdad during Friday prayers and killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens, officials said, on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday of Ashoura. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

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An unidentified man lies in hospital after being struck by a suicide bomb-blast at the al-Khadimain mosque in the Dora neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshipers ripped through Baghdad during Friday prayers and killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens, officials said, on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday of Ashoura. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

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A U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldier guards Iraqi men who were detained after troops recovered a cache of insurgent weapons in a car, which had previously been used to shoot at U.S. and Iraqi troops, in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Rifles, ammunition, a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenades were recovered. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers raid a building in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. The troops were searching for an suspected insurgent weapons provider. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers line up Iraqi men and youths for identification during a raid in a market in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. The troops were searching for an insurgent weapons provider, but he was not located. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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A U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldier guards the perimeter during a raid in a market in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. The troops were searching for an insurgent weapons provider, but he was not located. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers gather around the crater left by a roadside bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. Several other bombs were also located, but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers search a section of Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. The troops were searching for a suspected insurgent weapons provider. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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Jennifer Mills and her 1-year-old daughter Lane watch and listen as "Taps" is played in honor of fallen First Cavalry soldiers Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, at Fort Hood, Texas. Mills' husband Capt. Darren Knowles returned from Iraq Thursday. (AP Photo/Temple Daily Telegram, Beth Dombrowski)

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National Guard Sgt. Rudy Garcia returns to his family Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, in Salt Lake City. The 116th Engineering unit spent the last year serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

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Daniela Golden kisses her husband, Sgt. Aron Golden, of Marshall, Texas, during a homecoming ceremony for more than 200 1st Cavalry Division soldiers who returned to Fort Hood, Texas, Friday, Feb. 18, 2005, after a 14-month tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Steve Traynor)

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A U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldier collects part of a cache of insurgent weapons found in a car, which had previously been used to shoot at U.S. and Iraqi troops, in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Rifles, ammunition, a maching gun and rocket-propelled grenades were recovered. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment Capt. Chris Hossfield smashes a window with his rifle before setting fire to a car in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Soldiers set fire to two cars that had been used to shoot at U.S. and Iraqi forces. A cache of weapons had also been found inside the other car. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment Capt. Brian Westerfield walks away from a car that was set on fire by U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb 18, 2005, after a cache of insurgent weapons was found inside. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

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Men alleged to be insurgents are paraded by police along with the weapons that were captured from them in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 18, 2005, as security was stepped up on the eve of Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shiite Muslim calendar. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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In this Nov. 2004 photo from WGBH, soldiers from the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad pose during a scene from PBS' s 'A Company of Soldiers,' an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an American military unit in Iraq. At least two TV stations will show an uncensored documentary about soldiers in Iraq despite a warning from the public television broadcaster that it can't insure stations against FCC fines stemming from bad language in the Frontline documentary. The show will be shown by most PBS outlets next Tuesday night, Feb. 22, 2005.(AP Photo/ WGBH)