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17 December 2004

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,344 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY SEPT. 13 ** Army Staff Sgt. Jason Pepper, 27, pauses as he talks to a reporter Aug. 26, 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Sgt. Pepper's right eye constantly weeps from an injury sustained in Iraq. He was blinded by an explosion during his tour of duty in Iraq on May 12 and is trying to learn braille as he adjusts to life as a blind man. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF OCT 16-17 ** Army Pfc. George Perez has his skin grafts rebandaged by medical technicians as he rehabilitates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Nov. 25, 2003 in Washington. Perez had his left leg amputated after his humvee was hit by roadside bomb in Iraq in September 2003. Perez is one of at least four amputees from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
In this image released by the US Army, the 28th Combat Support Hospital is seen near Baghdad in this aerial photo made April 2003. By mid-November, 2004, 10,369 American soldiers had been wounded in battle in Afghanistan or Iraq, and 1,004 had died _ a survival rate of roughly 90 percent. (AP Photo/ U.S. Army)	Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, left, talks with Staff Sgt. Joe Bowser of Kentucky, who was injured in Iraq, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Military Amputee Training Center, Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. The center, a $10-million, 29,000-square-foot facility will bring together all of the services caring for Walter Reed's amputee patients, including social work, Veterans Affairs counselors, and the staff of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service and will be able to support 300 appointments a week for patients who have lost one or more limbs. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY MAY 26 ** Army Sgt. Robert Garrison recovers from an injury with sustained in the war in Iraq at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethseda, Md. Friday, May 16, 2003. Sgt. Garrison sustained a severe head injury and two collapsed lungs in a humvee accident during the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)	In this photo released by The White House Tuesday Nov. 9, 2004, President Bush talks with U.S. Army Spc. Kenneth Lukes of Fort Atkinson, Iowa, during his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, NOV. 20-21 ** Sgt. Trevor Phillips attaches his artificial arm before a trip into Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2004, as his wife Christa look on. Phillips, 26, a vehicle commander for the Army's first Stryker brigade, lost his arm after an improvised explosive device detonated while he was serving in Mosul. Now, as he struggles with depression and memory loss, Phillips doesn't know when he'll leave Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he's receiving physical therapy. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)	** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY SEPT. 13 ** Army Staff Sgt. Jason Pepper, 27, talks about his experience in Iraq with his wife Heather Pepper, 25, by his side Thursday Aug. 26, 2004 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Pepper was blinded by an explosion during his tour of duty in Iraq on May 12 and is trying to learn braille as he adjusts to life as a blind man. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, left, talks with Marine Lance Cpl. Manuel Rodriguez of San Antonio, Texas, who was injured in Iraq, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Military Amputee Training Center, Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 at the Walter Reed Army medical Center in Washington. The center, a $10-million, 29,000-square-foot facility, will bring together all of the services caring for Walter Reed's amputee patients, including social work, Veterans Affairs counselors, and the staff of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service. They will be able to support 300 appointments a week for patients who have lost one or more limbs. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)	Tom Porter of Springfied, Va., right, talks with Sgt. Robert Bonner of Salisbury, Md. during a grounbreaking ceremony for the Military Amputee Training Center, Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washignton. The center, a $10-million, 29,000-square-foot facility will bring together all of the services caring for Walter Reed's amputee patients, including social work, Veterans Affairs counselors, and the staff of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service. They will be able to support 300 appointments a week for patients who have lost one or more limbs. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF OCT 16-17 ** Army Pfc. George Perez listens to physical therapist Lt. Justin Laferrier during his daily rehab session at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Nov. 25, 2003. Perez had his left leg amputated after his humvee was hit by roadside bomb in Iraq in September 2003. Perez is one of at least four amputees from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)	**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF OCT 16-17 ** "Ya wanna touch it?" asks, Army Pfc. George Perez, right, to his cousin Juan Perez, 6, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 2003, at his parents' home in Willingboro, N.J., where he was on furlough from Walter Reed Medical Center. Perez lost his left leg when his humvee was destroyed by a roadside bomb in September 2003 in Iraq. Perez is one of at least four amputees from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY SEPT. 13 ** Phyllis Schmidt, 75, talks with her son Michael Carroll about her grandson and Mr. Carroll's son, Marine Lance Cpl. Sean Carroll, 19, Aug. 31, 2004 at the Fisher House complex of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Lance Cpl. Carroll, who is recovering at Walter Reed, lost a leg and several fingers and suffered other shrapnel injuries after a bomb hit his unit in the Sunni Triangle region in Iraq last March. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND SEPT. 4-5 ** U.S. Army Sgt. William Kyle Colvin, 26, talks with a reporter about his experiences in Iraq Thursday, Aug. 31, 2004, at the Fisher House complex at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Sgt. Colvin is in recovery after a roadside bomb hit his humvee causing the brakes to fail and to collide with the humvee in front of him at 65 miles an hour. The accident nearly cost him the use of his left leg. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)
**FILE** During a visit from Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., right, Alabama National Guardsman Sgt. Larry Gill, 43, left, of Mobile, Ala., points out some get-well drawings from his children taped to the wall of his hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, in this Nov. 11, 2003, file photo. The military policeman was wounded during a grenade attack while he was working crowd control Oct. 7 outside a Baghdad mosque. This was the second time in less than two decades he has won the Purple Heart for injuries sustained during an anti-terrorism effort. As a Marine in 1984, Gill sustained a concussion and various cuts during the bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND SEPT. 4 - 5 ** Lee Pingleton, 71, talks about her Edward Pingelton Thursday Aug. 31, 2004 at the Fisher House complex at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Pingleton sustained severe brain damage when a car bomb struck the house his unit was occupying. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JULY 4 ** Army Spec. Danielle Green, 27, a former Notre Dame basketball star, holds her amputated arm June 30, 2004, at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Green lost her arm and sustained a serious leg injury during a RPG attack May 25 in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/ Matt Houston)	Dr. Louis French of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, part of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, holds a model of the human brain as he explains how brains get injured, May 27, 2004, in this image from video. (AP Photo/Kevin Vineys)
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JULY 4 ** Army Spc. Danielle Green, center, works with occupational therapist Theresa Vallone, left, and Army Capt. Katie Yancosek to use a computer program that simulates Green's hand in preparation for a prosthetic device at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, June 30, 2004. Green, a former Notre Dame College basketball star, lost her hand and part of her forearm after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad last month. (AP Photo/Matt Houston)	David Lee Sterling, from Placerville, Calif., walks to Walter Reed Army Medical Center Wednesday, May 26, 2004. Sterling lost his right hand when a rocket-propelled grenade smashed into the turret of his Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Iraq. (AP Photo/Manuel Blace Ceneta)
** CORRECTS TO TROY MECHANICK ** Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, left, visits with New York National Guardsmen Troy Mechanick, center, and Robert Hemsing, Friday, May 7, 2004, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where both are being treated for wounds received when their truck was ambushed in Iraq. The soldiers, whose friend was killed in the April 11 ambush, say the Army's use of a big slow trucks left them vulnerable to attack. (AP Photo/Courtesy Troy Mechanick)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND APRIL 17-18 ** Army Staff Sgt. Eric DiVona, right, from Fort Campbell, Ky. examines a bag of Pentostan as Spc. Lester Borrayes prepares to administer the drug by IV, Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. to treat the leishmaniasis that DiVona caught while on active duty in Iraq. The sores are visible on the side of DiVona's face and ear. (AP Photo/Leslie E. Kossoff)
President Bush runs with Army Staff Sergeant Michael McNaughton, of Denham Springs, La., on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, April 14, 2004. The two met January 17, 2003, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where SSgt. McNaughton was recovering from wounds sustained in Afghanistan. The President then wished SSgt. McNaughton a speedy recovery so that they might run together in the future. (AP Photo/The White House. Eric Draper)	Surrounded by family and friends U.S. Army Sgt. Luis Sandoval, right, is hugged by his sister Sylvia Ruiz-Sandoval during his homecoming at the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Ill., Wednesday, June 2, 2004. Sandoval, who was wounded while serving in Iraq, returned from Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. (AP Photo/The Pantagraph, Stephanie Oberlander)
Rafael and Lucy Vega hold photos, the Bronze Star and the flag from the casket of Rafael's son, Army National Guard 1st Lt. Michael Vega, Thursday, April 8, 2004, in Amsterdam, N.Y. Michael Vega, 41, a California resident, was critically injured March 11, 2004 in combat in Diwaniyah, Iraq and died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday March 20, 2004. Lt. Vega was on duty in Iraq for approximately two and a half weeks. (AP Photo/AmsterdamRecorder, Mitch Wojnarowicz)	As Army First Lt. Brandan Mueller, Webster Groves, Mo., looks up, President Bush and Mueller's wife Amanda read a book to thier daughter Abigail in Mueller's room at Walter Reed Army Medical Cemter in Washington Friday, March 19, 2004. Mueller, a reservist, was wounded while stationed in Iraq. (AP Photo/The White Housde, Eric Draper)
President Bush meets with Army Specialist Salvatore Cavallaro, East Providence, R.I., while visiting troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington Friday, March 19, 2004. Also pictured is Sgt Gidget Rizzo. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)	In this picture provided by the White House, President Bush salutes Army Staff Sgt. Santiago Frias, Bronx, N.Y., at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington Friday, March 19, 2004 after presenting Frias the Purple Heart. Frias was wounded while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Also pictured is Sgt. Frias mother, Cristina DeJesus, left, and his wife, Nejil. (AP Photo/White House, Eric Draper
Army Stf. Sgt. Roy Mitchell of Milan, Ind., a member of the 10th Mountain division, waits in the checkout line of a convenience store with his children Zaccary, 11, left, and Jerrett, 18 months, inside the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. He was injured in Afghanistan Nov. 23rd when his humvee hit an anti-tank mine and is rehabilitating at the hospital. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	U.S. Army Sgt. Nicole Delvaux of Green Bay, Wisc., a member of the 32nd M. P. Company, goes through a physical therapy session with Maj. Mary Hannah, right, a physical therapist, inside the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. Delvaux was injured by grenade shrapnel during a firefight in Bagdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Army Stf. Sgt Ryan Kelly of Abilene, Tex. Runs down a hallway as he tries out adjustments made to his new prosthetic leg as Andrew Steele, a prosthetist orthotist watches inside the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. Kelly, a member of the 490 Civil Affairs Battalion, was wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	Army Spc. Hilario Bermanis, of Micronesia, participates in a rehab session with Bo Bergeron, left, a physical therapist, and Deidra Manns, right, a physical therapy student, in the PT ward of the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. He was injured in Baghdad, Iraq during an rocket propelled grenade attack while manning a checkpoint, and is rehabilitating at the hospital. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Kelly works out at Walter Reed Fitness Center every day building up his strength so he is fit enough to return to active duty while recovering at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington Feb. 18, 2004. Kelly, believed to be the nation's first soldier to apply for compensation under a state fund established to assist crime victims, is seeking $150,000 in damages in a lawsuit he filed last month. Kelly, 23, of Abilene contends he was a terrorism victim on July 14, 2003,when a hidden roadside artillery shell detonated near Baghdad and blew off his right leg below the knee. His leg was later amputated. He applied twice for money from the state's Crime Victims Compensation Fund, which is designed to pay uncovered medical expenses for victims of crime including those injured or killed in overseas terrorism. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Melanie Burford)	Occupation therapy assistant Ibraham Kabbah helps Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Briscoe of Liberty, Tex., a member of the 5th Special Forces, with his injured arm during a therapy session inside the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. Briscoe was injured by a rocket-propelled grenade during a firefight in Al-Qaim, Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
President Bushawards The Purple Heart Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003 in Washington to Spc. Joe Allen Gottschalk of Tipton, Iowa, whosustained injures in battle while serving in Iraq. Gottschalk's mother Alice Rogers is standing at his immediate left, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, Dec. 18, 2003. Bush visited troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Pictured sitting at the left is Kelly Wallace, wife of First Sergeant Daniel Wallace. Sgt. Michelle Berres is pictured in the background. The man standing at the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/White House Photo, Eric Draper, HO)	President Bush presents U.S. Army Specialist Jamie Brown of Newburgh, Ind., the Purple Heart for injuries sustained while serving in Iraq, during a visit with troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003. At left, Spc. Brown's wife. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., visits with Sgt. Peter J. Damon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003. (AP Photo/Kennedy Senate Office)	Recovering from injuries suffered in Iraq, military policeman Pfc. Christopher Busby of Valley Head, Ala., lies in his bed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, during a visit from Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., far right, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. Busby, with his parents Carol, top left, and Kenneth Busby, is mending a broken leg and severe cuts after a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a Humvee he was sitting in with another soldier. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sgt. Michael Bitz of Ventura, Calif., carries Cpl. Barry Lange of Portland, Ore. off the battlefield after Lange injured his leg while running, as members of India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division engage Iraqi soldiers in gunfire at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions near Az Bayer, Iraq on Friday, March 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)	Alabama Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Scott Barkalow shakes hands with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., from his hospital bed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Monday, May 5, 2003. Barkalow, a Decatur-based National Guardsman had to have his leg amputated after his vehicle ignited a land mine in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
U.S. Army Sgt. Tarik Jackson, 28, of Miami, who was part of the 507th Maintenance Company ambushed in Nasiriya, Iraq, March 23, is greeted by Baltimore Orioles Gary Matthews as members of the team visited wounded troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)	U.S. Army Pfc. Dennis Wallace of the 115th Infantry, based in Fort Benning, Ga., holds a Curious George stuffed animal while chatting with Baltimore Orioles Gary Matthews as members of the team visited wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington Monday, April 21, 2003. Wallace, who is from Fresno, Calif., was shot in the left side outside of Baghdad on April 6, 2003. At rear is his father, Jim Wallace. (AP Photo/ Roberto Borea)
President Bush shakes hands with Army Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Douglas of Fayetteville, N.C., after presenting him with the Purple Heart at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Friday, April 11, 2003. At right, is Douglas' wife, Donna. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper)	Washington Redskins players Tre Johnson, right, and Rock Cartwright, center, visit with Marine Spc. Jason Poudrier, of Klamath Falls, Ore. at Walter Reed Medical Center Thursday, April 17, 2003, in Washington. Walter Reed is currently treating about 40 men and women who have recently returned from Kuwait and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
An American soldier, wounded in battle in Iraq, is carried into the Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a teddy bear on his gurney, in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 28, 2003. The medical center would not release the identities of the soldiers who will receive specialized treatment at Walter Reed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)	An American soldier is lifted from a bus into the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 28, 2003. The soldier was one of a half dozen wounded soldiers who were flown back to the U.S. after receiving initial medical treatment in Germay. The medical center would not release the identities of the soldiers who will receive specialized treatment at Walter Reed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Army Sgt. Kenneth Dixon, 35, of Cheraw, S.C., with the 3rd Infantry Division, receives an autographed baseball cap from Baltimore Orioles' Gary Matthews (36) as members of the team visited wounded troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Monday, April 21, 2003. Dixon was injured when the Bradley Fighting Vehicle he was riding in crashed during a mission to clear an area of Iraqi soldiers 50 miles outside Baghdad. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)	American soldiers, wounded in battle in Iraq, are escorted into the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Friday, March 28, 2003, after flying from Germany where they received their initial care for their injuries. The medical center would not release the identities of the soldiers who will receive specialized treatment at Walter Reed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Lawrence McBean, left, a Life Support for Trauma and Transport project manager for the military, and Maj. Arthur Lyons, right, of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research talk about the LSTAT technology, foreground, which allows medics to better take care of the critically injured during the Emerging Technologies and Opportunities: Bioscience, Health and Medical Technologies showcase Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Md. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)	Julie Tobey hugs her son Lance Cpl. Mike Tobey at Glacier Park Internationsl Airport near Kalispell, Mont., Friday, April 25, 2003. Marine Lance Cpl. Tobey, 19, was wounded April 7 by shrapnel when a mortar struck a vehicle close to him in Baghdad. It broke both his legs and sent him home him from his unit, the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines. (AP Photo/Daily Inter Lake, Robin Loznak)
Fran Jenkins, left, consoles her husband, Jack, at their home in Turkey Creek, La., Monday, April 21, 2003, as he talks about the injuries his son, Troy Jenkins, shown in portrait, suffered in Iraq on Saturday. Troy Jenkins was wounded when an explosive found by an Iraqi girl exploded. One of Troy's legs had to be amputated. (AP Photo/The Town Talk, Tia Owens)	U.S. Marine Cpl. Dawani Kavir, from Grove, Okla., relates details of the combat in which he suffered wounds to his hand, arm, face and ear in Iraq during an interview Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
United States Marine Lance Cpl. Jorge Lopez of Los Angeles leans on his crutches while describing the events in which he was wounded fighting in Irag during an interview Wednesday April 23, 2003 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)	Ali Mustafa, 5, lies in a bed at Qaddamiyyah Hospital in Baghdad Saturday, April 19, 2003, as his mother Muna Hassan sits by. Mustafa was out playing with his siblings in their Baghdad garden when they found a cluster bomb and it exploded. Ali suffers from shrapnel wounds all over his body and may loose his eyesight. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)
Wounded Marine Sgt. Jacob Hopkins is hugged by his father, Joe Hopkins, upon his arrival at the Indianapolis International Airport Friday evening, April 18, 2003, in Indianapolis. Hopkins had his leg shredded by friendly fire in Iraq. At left Jacob's wife, Amanda Hopkins, hugs her mother, Cheryl Brown. Jacob's mother, Debbie Hopkins, is behind the wheelchair. The skycap pushing the wheelchair is Willie Turner. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, John Severson)	Marine Sgt. John Dale, 27, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., left, and Cpl. Eric McCue, 21, of South Portland, Maine, right, who were both wounded in Iraq, listen to a question during a news conference Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at the Camp Lejeune, N.C., Naval Hospital. (AP Photo/Bob Jordan)
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David McCallen, 23, from Columbus, Ohio, listens to questions during a news conference at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, southern Germany, Wednesday, April 16, 2003. McCallen received shrapnel wounds in the April 10 attack at a U.S. checkpoint in northern Baghdad. He was one of four Marines wounded, but he says it could have been worse. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)	An unidentified wounded US soldier is carried off a C-141 military plane at Ramstein Air Base, Friday, April 11, 2003. US soldiers wounded and injured in combat in Iraq were brought to Landstuhl Medical Center for treatment. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Medics tends to a foreign journalist seriously wounded after a U.S. tank fired at a hotel filled with journalists in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The Palestine hotel took fire Tuesday after U.S. troops said snipers were shooting at them from the building. At least five journalists were injured, as earlier Tuesday a correspondent for the Al-Jazeera television network was killed when its Baghdad office was hit during a U.S. bombing campaign. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)	**RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT MONTH**A protestor, who refused to give her name, bears the wounds after she says was hit by Oakland police weapon during a anti-war protest in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 7, 2003 outside the port area. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
A child wounded inflicted during coalition bombing earlier in the day on the ouskirt of the Iraq's capital Baghdad is brought in Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital for treatment Friday April 4, 2003. (AP Photo/Ali Heider)	U.S. Army medics with the 4th Battalion 64th Armored Regiment treat an Iraqi prisoner of war suffering from gunshot and shelling wounds on the outskirts of Baghdad Thursday, April 3, 2003. The 4-64 crossed the Euphrates River Thursday and engaged Iraqi forces near the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/John Moore)
U.S. Marine First Lieutenant, 26-year old James Uwins, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment from Camp Lejeune, NC, hometown South Pasadena, Ca, sits in a wheelchair prior to a press conference at the U.S. Medical Center in Landstuhl, southern Germany, Wednesday, April 2, 2003. Uwins was wounded during combat in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)	General Tommy Franks, Commander of U.S. Central Command, left, visits Private 1st Class Patrick McDermott, below right, of the 197th Aviation Battalion, at the 47th Combat Support Hospital, in the Kuwait desert, in this Monday, March 31, 2003, U.S. Central Command handout photo. McDermott is recovering from wounds received during operations against Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Gary P. Bonaccorso, Central Command Handout Photo)
A wounded Iraqi soldier is carried to an ambulance by U.S. Navy medics of the 3/4 Battalion Aid Station near Diwaniyah in south central Iraq, Tuesday, April 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)	Wounded U.S. Navy Corpsman 3rd Class Carlos Cordova from Sugarland, Texas, left, speaks to journalists at the joint-use Spanish-U.S. navy base in Rota, southern Spain Monday, March 31, 2003 where the U.S. Navy's Fleet Hospital Eight is located. Cordova, a Navy medic attached to the U.S. Marine Corps was wounded in the arm by shrapnel March 24 in southern Iraq, sustaining severe lacerations but no nerve or arterial damage. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon)
Marine Corps Lt. Col. John Ewers, of Camp Pendleton, Calif. gets assistance from his wife Laurie Ewers, as he leaves the room after participating in a press conference with two other wounded Marines, at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Monday, March 31, 2003. The patients talked about their injuries which they incurred while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ewers is originally from Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Leslie E. Kossoff)	RAF crewman, left, keeps guard with a GPMG machine gun from a Puma helicopter, while a 1st RAF medic tends to shrapnel wounds on two British marines from 42 command in southern Iraq Sunday March 30, 2003. (AP Photo/James Vellacott, Pool)
First Sergeant Bruce H. Cole, 39, from Beaumont, Texas, with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment recovers at Logistical Support Area Viper, March 27, 2003 from a bullet wound that entered through his right wrist and exited from his tricep during an enemy ambush. (AP Photo/Sgt. L.A. Salinas)	U.S. Navy surgeons and a nurse operate on a wounded Iraqi civilian while medical staff from the Forward Resuscitative Surgeon System, Team 6, look on at an emergency hospital on the road to Baghdad near Ad Diwaniyah in central Iraq, Saturday, March 29, 2003. The Iraqi man was wounded by a bullet in the abdomen, near the front line. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Mead of Newberry, MI, talks to the media aboard USNS Comfort U.S. Navy hospital ship in Persian Gulf Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Mead was wounded after his unit was ambushed, near Nasiriyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)	U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Mead of Newberry, MI, talks to Pvt. Jason Keough, of Buffalo, NY aboard USNS Comfort U.S. Navy hospital ship in the Persian Gulf Wednesday, March 26, 2003. The two were wounded after their unit was ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
A wounded British soldier is rescued after combat from a base in Southern Iraq by the British 33 Squadron Pumas, Wednesday March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/James Vellacott/POOL)	An unidentified wounded U.S. soldier is carried out on a stretcher off a USAF C-141 plane at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, southern Germany, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. A total of 15 injured soldiers from the gulf region arrived here to get medical treatment in the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)
British wounded are flown out from 1 CS Medical Regiment based near Basra, southern Iraq, in a Puma helicopter, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. In an about-face, British forces said they had decided to move against militia fighters who blocked them from securing Basra _ even as Iraqi forces in the area allegedly began using civilians as human shields. (AP Photo Dan Chung, Pool)	U.S. Army Capt. Greg Holden of Huron, Ohio in this photo taken in April 1999 photo, is a member of the 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait and was injured in a grenade attack. The attack that occurred Sunday in Kuwait killed one and wounded 15, according to U.S. military officials. (AP Photo/Sandusky Register, Andy Morrison)
An unidentified U.S. soldier is carried on a stretcher off a C-141 military airplane at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, southwestern Germany, Monday March 24, 2003. A total of twelve soldiers, wounded in the Iraq war, arrived here to get medical treatment in the nearby Landstuhl Medical Center. Seven of the soldiers were injured in combat. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)	An unidentified wounded U.S. soldier is carried on a stretcher off a C-141 military plane at the U.S. Air Base of Ramstein, southwestern Germany, Monday March 24, 2003. A total of twelve U.S. soldiers wounded in the Iraq war arrived to get medical treatment in nearby Landstuhl Medical Center. Seven of them were injured in combat. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)