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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

These photos are from March to December 2003.


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Jeremy Feldbusch, a soldier in the 75th Ranger Regiment who was wounded on a mission at the Haditha Dam in northwest Iraq in April, sits in his Blairsville, Pa., home Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. Shrapnel hit his right temple and lodged in the left side of his brain. He underwent seven hours of brain surgery but is now blind. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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Jeremy Feldbusch, 24, a soldier in the 75th Ranger Regiment, explains the medals, ribbons and insignia on his uniform, at his Blairsville, Pa., home Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. He was wounded on a mission at the Haditha Dam in northwest Iraq in April. Shrapnel hit his right temple and lodged in the left side of his brain. He underwent seven hours of brain surgery but is now blind. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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A man impaled with a metal rod is carefully removed from the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, collapsing the front of the building, the U.S. military said. A hospital reported two people dead dozens wounded. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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**EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT** A bomb victim is treated in an emergency ward after a bomb attack at the Jordanian Embassy, Thursday Aug. 7, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital Thursday morning. Rescue workers and an official at a nearby hospital said at least 11 people were killed and at least 50 wounded. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Maimed Iraqi Bedouin herder Basim Haydar Hassoon, age 17, lies in a hospital bed staring wordlessly, in a post-operative recovery ward, in Kirkuk, Iraq, Tuesday, May 20, 2003. Hassoon, who suffered hand and head wounds in an apparent grenade attack three days earlier at the end of a day of ethnic fighting between Arabs and Kurds, was brought to hospital by a bystander who found him on a road. With so many wounded already in the hospital, doctors did not see Hassoon until the next day, and gangrene had set in on his right arm, forcing amputation. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Tina Cline, widow of Marine Lance Cpl. Donald Cline, holds a letter she received from the military in Sparks, Nevada, Friday, May 16, 2003. The letter described how her husband pulled wounded U.S. soldiers to safety while under fire just before he was killed by a grenade blast in Iraq. (AP Photo/Debra Reid)

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Taha Abbas, 22, recovers from gunshot wounds at a hospital in Ramadi, 68 miles, (110kms) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday June 24, 2003. Abbas was allegedly shot by U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint at Al Ramadi early Tuesday as U.S. troops exchanged gunfire with Iraqis. The shooting left three Iraqis dead and two wounded, and an American soldier wounded. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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U.S. soldiers reinforce the gate of a 1st Armored Division outpost in Thawra neighborhood, Baghdad, Saturday, June 28, 2003. Attackers lobbed a grenade at a U.S. convoy making its way through a predominantly Shiite neighborhood late Friday, killing one American soldier and wounding four others. A civilian Iraqi interpreter was also wounded. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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Witness Omar Abdul Hussein retrieves a blood-soaked first aid bandage Saturday, June 28, 2003 at Al Mashtel southeast of Baghdad, the site of another attack on a US military humvee patrol Friday evening. Unknown men attacked the patrol with a rocket propelled grenade killing one US soldier and wounding four others. The US forces in Iraq have been under increasing guerilla-style attacks lately. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

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Spc. Kenneth Clarke of Woodward, Okla. comforts an Iraqi man wounded after he tried to steal artillery shells from an Iraqi ammunition depot in Habaniyah, Iraq on Monday, June 16, 2003. The shooting exemplifies the ambiguity of the mission now facing U.S. soldiers in Iraq now that major combat has ended, but guerrilla attacks have increased. The man was later flown to a U.S. military hospital for surgery. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson)

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An X-ray shows a piece of shrapnel, small white spot, lodged in the head of Mizher Ali at al-Khazraj village near Balad, Iraq, Saturday June 14, 2003. Mizraj was severely wounded while his father, Ali Jassam, and three brothers, Hamza Ali, Abid Ali and Amer Ali, were killed by US troops early Friday morning. The family said that the four were shot and killed by US troops mistakenly as Fedayeen, while they were trying to save their livestock from fire that started after Fedayeen members attacked a US convoy near their village. The big white patch is from the bandage. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

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An Iraqi man begs why he was shot by U.S. troops as his gunshot wound to the neck is treated after he attempted to flee down a narrow alley in a van, across the street from the scene of Tuesday's intense shootout on a house in Mosul, Wednesday, July 23, 2003. U.S. troops were on high alert after Tuesday's operation, in which Odai and Qusai, the elder sons of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, were killed. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Injured Iraqi vendor Sala Ajil recalls his ordeal after responding U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division 3/7 Infantry Regiment allegedly fired at random following an early morning rocket-propelled grenade attack in al-Khadra'a west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 14, 2003, killing a U.S. soldier and wounding six others. Insurgents have been attacking U.S. vehicle convoys and launching mortar attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq. (AP Photo/John Moore)

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Mohammed Hamza Faraj lies in the hospital in Ramadi, 80 kilometers west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 6, 2003, a day after he was wounded in an explosion outside the Ramadi Police Station. The explosion targeted a graduation parade by U.S.-trained police cadets. (AP Photo/Ali Haider)

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Iraqis visit wounded family members lying in the hospital in Najaf, Iraq after a car bomb exploded next to the Imam Ali mosque killing at least 75 and wounding 140 others Friday Aug. 29, 2003. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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U.S. Army doctor Maj. William Marzullo examines an x-ray of Qasim Shaker at Tikrit teaching hospital, about 110 miles (180 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Aug. 8, 2003. U.S. snipers killed at least two Iraqi men who were allegedly selling weapons and wounded five others in a market in the center of Tikrit. Qasim Shaker a 10-year old Iraqi boy was wounded during the operation. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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A wounded man is evacuated from the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack is removed from a military vehicle to a waiting medivac helicopter, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, collapsing the front of the building, the U.S. military said. A hospital reported two people dead and dozens wounded. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ** Pfc. Robert Shrode is photographed with his father, Mel Shrode, during a family reunion, Saturday, Aug. 30, at the family home in Danville, Ala. Robert Shrode, 29, was one of five soldiers wounded June 5 when Iraqi militants ambushed their patrol vehicle in Fallujah, about 30 miles west of Baghdad. A sixth was killed in the fight. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)

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Chief Warrant Officer Stuart Contant, right, an Apache helicopter pilot, talks about recovering from spinal injuries he sustained when he crashed in an Apache helicopter in Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, at Fort Campbell, Ky., as Chief Warrant Officer Emanuel Pierre, left, and soldier Terry James, center, listen. Pierre was also injured in the same helicopter crash. Contant and Pierre started a support group for wounded soldiers. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)

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**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS OF AUG. 23-24 ** Sgt. Jenni McKinley talks about recovering from injuries, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, at Fort Campbell, Ky., that she sustained in April in Iraq. Her right hand, which she was using to hold her weapon out a Humvee window, was crushed when a tire blowout in the Iraqi desert caused the vehicle to roll over. She is participating in a support group for wounded soldiers. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)

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The injured are carried out from the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide truck bomb ripped through the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, U.S. officials said. At least 20 U.N. workers and Iraqis were killed, including the chief U.N. official in Iraq, and 100 were wounded. (AP Photo/Hurriyet/DHA)

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Coalition troops search through rubble at the United Nations headquarters after a bomb attack, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, collapsing the front of the building, the U.S. military said. At least 20 U.N. workers and Iraqis were killed, including the chief U.N. official in Iraq, and 100 were wounded. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

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An Abu Ghreih prisoner recovers at U.S. army field hospital on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug. 17, 2003. At least 6 prisoners were dead and 58 wounded in two-mortar attack on Abu Ghreib prison near Baghdad on Saturday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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An Abu Ghreih prisoner recovers at U.S. army field hospital on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug. 17, 2003. At least 6 prisoners were dead and 58 wounded in two-mortar attack on Abu Ghreib prison near Baghdad on Saturday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Anwaar Kawaz, 36, weeps as her daughter Hadeel, 13, showing wounds in her arm, stands next to her at their home in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday Aug. 10, 2003. On Aug. 8, Anwaar's husband and three of her children were killed by U.S. forces when an electricity generator blew up and fearing an attack, the soldiers opened fire on the family's car as they were trying to get back home before curfew. Hadeel was injured during the incident.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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A bomb victim is treated in an emergency ward in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Aug. 7, 2003, after a massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital reportedly killing between seven and 12 people and wounding many more. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A bomb victim waits to be treated in an emergency ward after a bomb attack at the Jordanian Embassy, Aug. 7, Thursday, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital Thursday morning. Rescue workers and an official at a nearby hospital said between seven and 12 people were killed and at least 50 wounded, many of them seriously. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A bomb victim is treated in an emergency ward after a bomb attack at the Jordanian Embassy, Aug. 7, Thursday, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital Thursday morning. Rescue workers and an official at a nearby hospital said at least 11 people were killed and more than 50 people wounded, many of them seriously. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A bomb victim is treated in an emergency ward in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Aug. 7, 2003, after a massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital reportedly killing between seven and 12 people and wounding many more. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Seventeen-year-old Haidar Jamil rests in a Fallujah, Iraq hospital bed Saturday Sept. 27, 2003 after he was wounded and his father, mother and grandmother were killed the night before by U.S. troops at a checkpoint, according to the boy. U.S. troops fired on two vehicles at a checkpoint Friday night, killing four Iraqis and wounding at least five. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Lying wounded in Fallujah, Iraq hospital beds, from right, Abed Rasheed, 50, Tahseen Mohammed, 9 and his brother Hussein, 11, await further medical treatment after a U.S. aircraft fired six missiles in al-Sajr, Iraq 9 miles (15 miles) north of Fallujah, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2003 wounding the three and killing three other men, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Rabia'a Kamash, driver of Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, police chief in al-Khaldiya, Iraq lies in a hospital bed with gunshot wounds after their car was attacked Monday Sept. 15, 2003. In Khaldiya, three men, their faces covered with red and white Arab headdresses shot and killed Col. Ali on the outskirts of the volatile western city of Fallujah as they were driving home. His bodyguard was wounded in the attack, police said. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

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Police officer Arkan Adnan Ahmed is visited by family members at a hospital in Fallujah after he was wounded when U.S. soldiers mistakenly opened fire on a group of Iraqi police officers killing eight Iraqis and wounding seven others witnesses said Friday Sept. 12, 2003. US soldiers opened fire on 25 policemen in two pickup trucks and a sedan who were chasing a white BMW known to have been used by highway bandits, said Asem Mohammed, a 23-year-old police sergeant who was among the injured. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Asem Mohammed, a 23-year-old Iraqi police sergeant, is visited by a doctor and a fellow police officer at a hospital in Fallujah after he was wounded when U.S. soldiers mistakenly opened fire on a group of Iraqi policemen killing eight Iraqis and wounding seven others witnesses said Friday Sept. 12, 2003. US soldiers opened fire on 25 policemen in two pickup trucks and a sedan were chasing a white BMW known to have been used by highway bandits, said Mohammed. It was the deadliest friendly fire incident since the end of major fighting. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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An Iraqi boy looks at bloody clothing along the highway near Fallujah, Iraq Saturday Sept. 27, 2003 where U.S. troops fired on two vehicles at a checkpoint Friday night, killing four Iraqis and wounding at least five, including a child. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Mohammed Samir, 10, is helped by doctors in the hospital near the site of an explosion in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003. Seven American soldiers were also wounded when two roadside bombs exploded as their convoy passed at about 9 a.m. on the western side of the city. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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A soldier of the American 101st Airborne division examines a Humvee destroyed by an explosive device in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003. Seven American soldiers were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded as their convoy passed at about 9 a.m. on the western side of the city. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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A doctor examines an x-ray of bus driver Sami Kadum Sadiq's wounds after he was injured when a homemade bomb exploded Wednesday, Sept 24, 2003 along a road in Baghdad, missing a U.S. military patrol but killing at least one Iraqi and injuring 18 others and destroying two civilian buses.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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A relative of Ali Khalaf Mohammed points at a hole in the roof of his farm house after a U.S. aircraft fired six missiles in al-Sajr, Iraq 9 miles (15 kms) north of Fallujah, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2003 killing three men and wounding three others, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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An American soldier in Tikrit, Iraq, Friday Sept, 19, 2003 stands guard over the flag draped bodies of unidentifed soldiers who died late Thursday evening, after their squad was ambushed while on patrol. The coordinated attack against U.S. forces cost the lives of three soldiers and wounded another two.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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A wounded Iraq police officer is led down the street by fellow police officers outside a police headquarters in Baghdad after a car parked outside the building exploded injuring a unknown number of bystanders Tuesday September 2, 2003. The Iraqi police said there were also a few U.S. military police in a nearby police academy as trainers for Iraqi police. No Americans were hurt in the incident according to Iraqi police. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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In this Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 picture, U.S.-led coalition forces try to resucitate a soldier, left, as another has a head wound treated, right, after an attack on a Humvee on the main road about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. It was unclear how seriously the soldiers were wounded. The U.S.-led occupation army faces harassing attacks from a shadowy array of Iraqi and possibly foreign foes _ die-hard Sunni Muslim loyalists of the toppled Baathist government, other Iraqi nationalists who wantthe Americans out, terror bombers who may be driven by Islamic fanaticism. In Shiite Muslim areas, the Americans have an uneasy, sometimes bloody coexistence with the armed militias of clerical factions. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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A soldier of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division checks the wound of an Iraqi man, bottom center, who was detained at the explosion site, at a street in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003. One American soldier was wounded after the explosion. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Page High School graduate Brandon Sandrell who was wounded in Iraq, looks on during a ceremony where he brought home a flag and dedicated it to the school, near Franklin, Tenn., Oct 30, 2003. Sandrell of the 269th Military Police Company based in Smyrna was to be honored for his service to the nation at a veterans parade Monday. (AP Photo/Tennessean, Steven S. Hartman)

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Bill Ray of Lahoma, Okla. holds a portrait of his son, Victor, an Army soldier fighting in Iraq Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. Ray's son was seriously wounded during combat near Baghdad and required two surgeries after being transfered to a Army medical hospital in Germany. A black and white portrait of Victor Ray as a child hangs on the wall to the left. (AP Photo/Enid News & Eagle, Andy Carpenean)

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U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after assailants ambushed a U.S. Army foot patrol outside Fallujah Monday, Oct 20, 2003. One American soldier and two civilians where killed and five others wounded in the second day of attacks. The patrol, from the 82nd Airborne Division, was first hit by an exploding homemade bomb, and then by small-arms fire, the military said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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A civilian comes to the aid of an injured man slumped in a truck, in this image from television after a car bomb exploded near the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday Oct. 14, 2003, killing the driver, and a bystander and wounding more than a dozen others, according to US officials and witnesses. The man was taken to a hospital and no additional information is available on his condition. (AP Photo/APTN)

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A Bossier City police officer runs past "wounded and dead" bodies during a mock disaster Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, 2003, at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City, La. The "dirty bomb" scenario involved multiple emergency agencies and the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and the U.S. Justice Department. (AP Photo/The (Shreveport) Times, Jim Hudelson)

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Smoke rises from a burned truck as Iraqi men stand near it in the city of Baiji, some 250 kms (160 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 10, 2003. The truck, which delivered water supply for U.S. troops through Baiji, exploded and its driver was reported seriously wounded. (AP Photo/Rafid Jassim Mohammed)

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U.S. Army Specialist Joe Eason throws out the first pitch before Game 3 of the NL division playoff series between the Florida Marlins and the San Francisco Giants, Friday, Oct. 3, 2003, in Miami. Eason was wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Reuters,Joe Skipper, Pool)

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U.S Army medics carry an injured soldier, Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003 towards a medical facility at their base after a roadside bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy was driving by in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit. Three soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were wounded.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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U.S Army medics carry an injured soldier, Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003 towards a medical facility at their base after a roadside bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy was driving by in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit. Three soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were wounded.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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** FILE ** Elizabeth LaFountaine, whose legs were wounded when the USS Cole was attacked four years ago in Yemen, watches her son Tristan, 1, run laps around the dining room table in this undated photo. Military plastic surgeons are performing cosmetic procedures on American soldiers, sailors, Marines and Air Force members at a steep discount, saying the scalpel time keeps them sharp to fix the often severe wounds of war. Last year, military doctors gave military personnel and their family members 261 breast enlargements, 288 tummy tucks, 385 liposuction procedures, 135 face lifts and 69 nose jobs, according to military figures. LaFountaine is grateful for every bit of practice Portsmouth plastic surgeons had when they mended her leg four years ago.(AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Tyree)

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Eleven year-old Sunduz Jihad receives treatment in Kirkuk hospital after he got wounded in a car bomb explosion Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003. Five people were killed and 40 wounded in the explosion. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Sixteen year old Omar Mahmoud lies severly wounded in Samara hospital Wednesday Nov. 19 2003. According to hospital staff, Mahmoud was wounded in US bombing Tuesday night. In recent days, U.S. forces have used heavy artillery, battle tanks, attack helicopters, F-16 fighter-bombers and AC-130 gunships to pound targets throughout central Iraq. (AP Photo/Diyah Hameed)

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President Bush, center, greets Spc. Alex Leonard, of the 101st Airborne, from Billings Mont., far right, as he and Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, greeted wounded soldiers in the East Room of the White House after Bush signed an $87.5 billion package approved by Congress for Iraq and Afghanistan, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 in Washington. Leonard was injured in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 25, when his convoy was attacked with roadside bombs and small arms fire. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivas)

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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, DEC. 6-7 ** Sgt. Michael Grose, of Summersville, W.Va., displays a wound he received while stationed in Iraq when he and the seven other 82nd Airborne soldiers riding in a Humvee drove over an improvised roadside bomb Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. One of his fellow passengers died and Grose was injured as a result of the attack. (AP Photo/Stan Gilliland)

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A doctor in the emergency room of Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital feels the blood pressure of an Iraqi man Saleh, late Sunday, Nov 23, 2003. Saleh and his friend Hamed were driving in their minibus in a western Baghdad neighborhood when they came under gun fire. The bullets went into Saleh's leg. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April that was followed by lootings and revenge attacks, dozens of people are taken to hospitals in Baghdad every day suffering from gunshot wounds or stabbings. Such cases were minor during the former leader's 23-year dictatorship. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Italy's Army Chief of Staff Giulio Fraticelli, left, shakes hands with a soldier wounded in the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, during his visit at the Italian military hospital near the southern Iraqi town, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

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An Iraqi wounded after a suicide bomber drove a tanker truck into Italy's paramilitary police headquarters is seen at a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq some 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Wednesday Nov. 12 2003. (AP Photo/Nabil Aljurani)