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21 February 2005.

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,525 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

New York Times, 21 February 2005

U.S. Starts New Offensive Against Rebels

By JOHN F. BURNS

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 20 - Three months after American forces recaptured the insurgent stronghold of Falluja in the biggest operation of the war, the Marine division that led the assault said Sunday that it had started a new offensive against insurgents in Ramadi, Falluja's twin city, on the Euphrates about 75 miles west of Baghdad.

Photos from 2004. Captions by Associated Press.
U.S. Marines walk on patrol, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	** FILE ** A U.S. Marine runs for cover during a two-hour period of sporadic battling with insurgents,while another Marine points his rifle down the road, in Ramadi, Iraq, in this Dec. 20, 2004 file photo. Although an overall analysis of the perfrormance of U.S. Marine Corps Reserves is complimentary, the Marnes and the other military services may be in danger of running out of reserve troops. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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 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)
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)	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)
Insurgents stand next to a body they claim to be that of Italian national Salvatore Santoro, 52, in the desert outside Ramadi, Iraq, Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. Iraqi militants said they shot and killed an Italian citizen after he tried to break through a guerrilla roadblock on a highway outside the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	U.S. Marine Pfc Michael Birdsong, far right, from Gravel Ridge, Arkansas, and Lcpl Jason Hash, right, from Baltimore, Maryland sit with their squad members in the back of a Humvee and keep watch for threats as they join in a patrol and search a partially-occupied residential neighborhood, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
A U.S. Marine sniper scans the surrounding neighborhood from inside a guard post in front of the Governorate for Al Anbar Province, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 13, 2004. The Marines provide security for the building which is the seat of government for the province which stretches several hundred miles from the border with Syria in the west to beyond Fallujah in the east. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	An Iraqi woman brings her child to Ramadi hospital Saturday, Nov. 20 2004 with what she said were shrapnel wounds. Heavy clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, Iraq, on Saturday killed nine Iraqis and injured five others, hospital officials, said. (AP Photo/Ali Ahmed)
Army Spc.Andrew M. Ward is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. The Defense Department announced Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, that Ward, 25, died Sunday, Dec. 5, at Ar Ramadi, west of Baghdad, when his unit was attacked with small arms fire in an area with a number of strongholds of anti-American insurgency, including Fallujah. (AP Photo/Family Photo via King County Journal)	This undated photo released by Fortune family shows Army Sgt. Maurice Keith Fortune, left, with his half sister, Lenore Worthy, of Accokeek, Md. Fortune, 25, of Forestville, Md., was killed Oct. 29, 2004, in Ramadi, Iraq, when a car bomb exploded near his vehicle. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Fortune Family via The Gazette)
Jason Meyer hugs his girlfriend, Jennifer Bayer, left, while Marine Sgt. Nicholas Bickel hugs his sister, Abby Bickel, center, after a funeral for their cousin, Pfc. Harrison J. Meyer, at the Resurrection Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. Harrison was killed Nov. 26 in Ramadi, Iraq. (AP Photo/Columbus Dispatch,Tom Dodge)	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)
Alice Collins of Crystal Lake, Ill., kisses the dog tags from Marines of the Second Battalion 4th Marines killed in action in Iraq during a memorial Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Collins' son, Lance Cpl. Jonathan W. Collins was member of the 2nd PLT, Fox Company deployed in Ramadi Iraq. (AP Photo/Valley Press, Ron Siddle)	In this photo provided by Normandy Studios, Pfc. Stephen C. Benish, of Clark, N.J., is seen in a 2002 yearbook photo from Arthur J. Johnson High School. Benish, 20, was killed by enemy fire Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. He was assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division based at Camp Howze, Korea. (AP Photo/Normandy Studios via Arthur J. Johnson High School Yearbook)
Pvt. Brian K. Grant is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. Grant, 31, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, when his unit was attacked by enemy small arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Dallas Morning News)	Army Pfc. Harrison J. Meyer, a combat medic from Worthington in suburban Columbus, Ohio, is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. Meyer, 20, was killed Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, in Ramadi, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team at Camp Howze, Korea. It is one of two air assault units based in South Korea. (AP Photo/Family Photo)
A crowd gathers in Roselawn Cemetery Saturday afternoon, Nov. 20, 2004, during the funeral for Pfc. Dennis J. Miller, Jr. in Monroe, Mich. Miller, 21, of La Salle died Nov. 10 after his unit came under attack and a rocket-propelled grenade struck his tank in Ramadi, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armor Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. (AP Photo/Monroe Evening News, Kim Brent)	Amelia, left, wife of Filipino-American U.S. Army Sgt. Maurice Keith Fortune who was killed in action in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, grieves as she touches the picture of his husband during full military burial honors inside the former U.S. air base in Clark, Pampanga, northern Philippines on Friday Nov. 19, 2004. Fortune, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat team, Camp Hovey, Korea, died on Oct. 29, 2004 when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Iraq. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
In this photo provided by the family, is Lance Cpl. Lance Thompson, 21, of Marion, Ind., who died Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, during fighting at Ramadi, said his father, Gregory Thompson. (AP Photo/Family photo via Kokomo Tribune)	This undated photo provided by the family shows Marine Cpl. Marc Ryan. Ryan, 25, who volunteered to return to Iraq for a third combat tour was killed Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, in fighting in Ramadi, family members said Tuesday. Ryan was a 1998 graduate of Gloucester City (N.J.) High School, where he was a star athlete, a linebacker and captain of the football team. (AP Photo/Family via The Courier-Post)
Richard Clayton Trotter, father of Army Sgt. John B. Trotter, left, and brother, Marine Fred Trotter, salute servicemen and women guests at a memorial service Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004, at Cornerstone Church for Sgt. John Trotter, who was killed Tuesday, Nov. Nov. 9, 2004, in a small arms attack in Ramadi, Iraq. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Lisa Krantz)	An Iraqi man looks at wreckage after clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. Three different American convoys belonging to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force came under attack from a car bomb and rocket propelled grenades Saturday in Ramadi, where U.S. troops have been engaged in heavy clashes with militants in the city for weeks.(AP Photo/Ali Ahmed)
This is an undated handout of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard who died Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004, in an explosion in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, according to the Marines. He was part of a massive build-up where the military was preparing for an attack into the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. (AP Photo/Courtsey of the Hubbard family via the clovis Police Department)	Army Pfc. Stephen P. Downing II, 30, shown in this photo provided by his family, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004, from small arms fire during combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Ireq the Department of Defense said. Downing, an ammunition specialist, was assigned to the Second Battalion, 17th Field Artillery at Camp Hovey in South Korea. The military listed his residence as Burkesville, Ky., but he grew up in the central Indiana town of Waverly and graduated from Mooresville High School, said Jessica Prichard,a friend of his family. (AP Photo/US Army via family)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during a gun battle with insurgents, as sporadic fighting continued in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday Nov. 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marine Lcpl. Jason Hash of Baltimore, MD, with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, raises his M16 rifle on a patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday Nov. 1, 2004. A gun battle with insurgents soon followed but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marine Lcpl. Brice Schleuter from Rockford, IL, with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, fires a machinegun from the turret of his Humvee during a gun battle with insurgents, as sporadic fighting continued in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday Nov. 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment patrol past unidentified wreckage in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb (not shown) Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marine snipers from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment operate on a rooftop in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment return fire during a close-range insurgent mortar attack on their base, Combat Outpost, in Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004. There were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment take defensive positions during a close-range insurgent mortar attack on their base, Combat Outpost, in Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004. There were no U.S. casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
Smoke rises after U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment disposed of a roadside bomb with a controlled explosion in Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004. Eleven roadside bombs exploded on a nearby mission Friday night, including several detonated by insurgent attackers while Marines disposed of the remainder by means of controlled demolitions.(AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment leave their base for a mission in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday Oct. 29, 2004. Sporadic fighting could be heard across central Ramadi through much of the morning when Marines returned fire on enemy positions after insurgents launched an attack with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment fight from a rooftop after insurgents launched an attack with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday Oct. 29, 2004. Sporadic fighting could be heard across central Ramadi through much of the morning. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	An Iraqi man and child exchange glances with a U.S. Marine during a raid in a residential section of Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday Oct. 28, 2004. Marines raided dozens of buildings, detained six Iraqis and recovered small arms and ammunition, while insurgents attacked the area with mortars and detonated a roadside bomb as the Marines returned to their base. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment run to a building after detonating explosives to open a gate during a mission in Ramadi, Iraq, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment watches the area through his rifle scope during a raid in a residential section of Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday Oct. 28, 2004. Marines raided dozens of buildings, detained six Iraqis and recovered small arms and ammunition, while insurgents attacked the area with mortars and detonated a roadside bomb as the Marines returned to their base. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment prepare to enter a home during a raid in a residential section of Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday Oct. 28, 2004. Marines raided dozens of buildings, detained six Iraqis and recovered small arms and ammunition, while insurgents attacked the area with mortars and detonated a roadside bomb as the Marines returned to their base. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment patrol in a Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 25, 2004. Rebels and U.S. forces battled in Ramadi earlier Monday, and hospital officials reported three Iraqis were killed during the fighting. Insurgents bombed one American security patrol and ambushed a separate convoy with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and an improvised explosive, the U.S. military said. No Americans were injured. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment make their way through a residential section of Ramadi, Iraq, during a raid Thursday Oct. 28, 2004. Marines raided dozens of buildings, detained six Iraqis and recovered small arms and ammunition, while insurgents attacked the area with mortars and detonated a roadside bomb as the Marines returned to their base. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search for insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment open fire on a car approaching their position in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby, but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	A Young Kim, wife of U.S. Army Pvt. Jeungjin Na Kim and his mother Mi Young Kim comfort one another near his flag draped casket during his funeral at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2004, in Honolulu. Behind them is their baby, Apollo Ikaika Kim, who was never able to meet his father. Kim, 23, was killed Oct. 6 in Ar Ramadi when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)
** FILE ** Army Staff Sgt. Omer T. Hawkins II, shown in an undated photo from his family, was among three soldiers killed Thursday Oct. 14, 2004 when a bomb detonated near their convoy in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, the Defense Department said. (AP Photo/Family Photo)	U.S. Marines pay their final respects at a memorial service for 1st Marine Division Combat Photographer Cpl. William Salazar, 26, of Las Vegas, NV, at Camp Blue Diamond, on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004. Salazar was killed in action in Anbar Province on October 15th. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
An Iraqi woman watches while a U.S. Army soldier searches her car at a highway checkpoint near Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004. The car resembled one sought in connection with an insurgents sniper who recently killed two soldiers nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	Iraqi men wait to be searched by U.S. Army soldiers at a highway checkpoint near Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004. Their car resembled one sought in connection with an insurgents sniper who recently killed two soldiers nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
A U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division tank crew watches traffic on a highway near Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment patrol a rear alley in Ramadi, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004. The Marines were on a reconnaissance mission, searching buildings in the area. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Army Pvt. Mark Barbret of Shelby Township, Mich., is shown in this undated famly photo. Barbret was killed Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004, when the Humvee he was in hit a roadside bomb near Ramadi, Iraq, the soldier's father, Kim Barbret, told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens. (AP Photo/Kim Barbret via The Macomb Daily)	U.S. Army soldiers search a local sheik while checking vehicles for insurgent weapons in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday Oct. 15, 2004. Insurgent sniper fire and rocket-propelled grenades have killed soldiers in Ramadi in recent days. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
David, from left, Ka'iulani and Timothy Titcomb, siblings of Army Pfc. Joshua K. Titcomb, mourn Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, before his funeral service at Sacred Heart Church in Waianae, Hawaii. Pfc. Titcomb, 20, died Sept. 29 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries suffered the previous day when an improvised explosive device exploded near his military vehicle. (AP Photo/Carol Cunningham)	U.S. Army soldiers line up to pay their final respects to Army PFC Aaron James Rusin, 19, of the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division during a memorial service at Camp Ramadi, on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Rusin, of western Pennsylvania, was killed during an ambush in Ramadi on Oct. 11, and was among two U.S. Army soldiers and two U.S. Marines from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team killed in action in during a five day period ending Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
Army Pfc. Joshua K. Titcomb is shown in this undated photo. Titcomb, 20, died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, of wounds he sustained the day before when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle, according to the Army. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)	A masked insurgent prepares a rocket to be launched at a U.S. base in Ramadi, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. On his mask is written "there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet". Fighting in the al-Anbar province, of which Ramadi remains one of the most troublesome spots, has taken the lives of several U.S. Marines in the past few weeks. (AP Photo)
Masked insurgents stand by rockets ready to be launched, targeting an U.S. base in Ramadi, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. On their masks is written "there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet". Fighting in the al-Anbar province, of which Ramadi remains one of the most troublesome spots, has taken the lives of several U.S. Marines in the past few weeks. (AP Photo/Str)	Masked insurgents rig up a rocket launcher to launch rockets, targeting an U.S. military base in Ramadi, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. On their masks is written "there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet". Fighting in the al-Anbar province, of which Ramadi remains one of the most troublesome spots, has taken the lives of several U.S. Marines in the past few weeks. (AP Photo / Str)