Eyeballing the Iraq Maim Zone - 18 Dec 04

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18 December 2004

1,346 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 January and February 2004.

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People load a wounded man into a truck to take him to a hospital from the scene of a car bomb which exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, outside the main gate to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition Sunday, Jan 18, 2004. Eighteen people were killed, and dozens of others injured, U.S officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A relative helps Luay Ma'ssan, 26, a taxi driver who was wounded while driving by during a shootout between U.S. troops and insurgents in the town of Samarra Friday, Jan. 9, 2004. The incident took place Thursday night. No further details of the incident were available. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Iraqi Felah Hassan, 74, lies in a hospital bed after losing his right leg when a truck bomb exploded in Samarra, Iraq Saturday Jan. 24, 2004. Three Iraqi civilians were killed and 33 people injured in the blast, a U.S. military spokesman said. Three American soldiers were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Bushrah Youssef, 32, stares as she waits for treatment at al-Husseiniyah hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003. Suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted two coalition military bases and the governor's office in Karbala on Saturday killing six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian and wounding at least 172 people. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Soldiers of the 4th Infantry division carry a wounded soldier to the casualty evacuation station, in Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday Dec 16 2003. Three soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Saddam Hussein's hometown, but were not reported to be in serious condition. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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An Iraqi Red Crescent worker and a policeman look at Ali Kassim, a 12 years old boy who was wounded in a suicide attack on a police station in Baghdad's Ameriyah district, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003. A suicide bomber drove his car into the gate of a police station wounding seven. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Hospital staff treat 26 year old Abdul Zahra Jaber, a bus driver wounded in a blast in Baghdad Friday, Dec. 5 2003. According to hospital officials, two people were killed and more than 20 wounded in the blast near a Baghdad mosque. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Iraqi police officers stand around their wounded colleague, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Mohammed, in Ramadi's hospital Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003. Four policemen were wounded when gunman opened fire with assault rifles and rpg's on a police station Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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** FILE ** The traditional bony preparation of an exit wound and fracture system of the skull, right, is compared to a 3D reconstruction, left, showing all forensic criteria of an exit wound and fracture system of the skull in these photos released Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003, at the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago. The "virtual autopsy," as envisioned by a Swiss forensic pathologist, is a minimally invasive procedure that would ease the concerns of family members who might feel squeamish about a traditional autopsy or whose religion forbids it. (AP Photo/RSNA)
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Khadum Hidwan holds his nine year old son Abbas after they received treatment in a hospital after they were wounded in a blast in Baghdad on Friday, Dec. 5 2003. According to hospital officials, two people were killed and more than 20 wounded in the blast near a Baghdad mosque. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Selman Mizban cries by his wounded brother Adil's side in Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital Wednesday Dec. 31, 2003. Adil was among at least 11 injured in In Baghdad when a car bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy passed on Palestine Street, a street full of shops, destroying one Humvee. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Daud Salim holds his injured one-year-old son Benin, at al-Husseiniyah hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003. Suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted two coalition military bases and the governor's office in Karbala on Saturday killing six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian and wounding at least 172 people. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Bahzar Ramadan, advisor to the Iraqi Minister of Construction and Housing, lies in hospital emergency unit after he was severely wounded by unknown assailants in Baghdad Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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An injured Iraqi tells of the blast at the office of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a major Shiite Muslim political party, in front of the debris in Baghdad, Friday, Dec. 19, 2003. An explosion hit the office Friday, leaving one person dead and several others wounded. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)

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**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, DEC. 22** Nineteen-year-old Ali al-Jbouri is helped by his father Hussein as he shows his wounds at his family house in Baghdad, Dec 2, 2003. Ali was injured when U.S. soldiers shot up the car he was riding in one summer night in 2003 and killed his friend. Witnesses had seen Ali and another passenger who was also injured being taken away by U.S. troops. For over a month his father Hussein al-Jbouri crisscrossed the country looking for his son. He knocked on the doors of American bases, but got no answers. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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A soldier consoles an Iraqi as U.S soldiers and Iraqi police officers gather at the scene where seven Iraqi police officers were wounded when a car bomb exploded in the western Ameriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 15, 2003. Eight others were killed in a deperate attack in a northern suburb.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Iraqis gather around rubble outside a police station in Khaldiyah, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 14, 2003. A car bomb exploded Sunday morning at a police station in this town west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 others, a U.S. military officer said. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Sgt. Brandon Erickson, left, and ski coach A.K. Watson, right, watch as Capt. David Rozelle stops during a racing clinic at The Hartford Ski Spectacular in Breckenridge, Colo., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003. Erickson and Rozelle and other wounded troops took advantage of some fresh snow at Breckenridge on Tuesday, learning how to ski and snowboard among friends familiar with the horror of war. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)

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Sgt. Brandon Erickson, right, is awarded the Bronze Star by Brig. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk, the North Dakota Army National Guard's assistant adjutant general, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003. Pictured at left is Capt. Wade Warren. Officials surprised Erickson, 22, with the ceremony at Raymond J. Bohn Armory. Erickson had part of his right arm amputated after he was wounded in a rocket attack in July in Iraq. (AP Photo/North Dakota Army National Guard, Ann Knudson)
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Iraqi police remove the body of a man killed in a blast in Baghdad, Friday, Dec. 5 2003. At least 1 person was killed and about 20 were wounded near the al-Samarrai mosque in Baghdad but it was not immediately clear what had caused the explosion. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

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Salhah Aluwan, from left, Hasnia Abtan, Hamida Hussein, and Aruba Ali, grieve Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, the death of Sabah Hassan, 21, whom they say was wrongfully killed by U.S. mortar fire that landed in their garden as he made his way to the nearby mosque in Iraq. U.S. troops and Iraqi resistance fighters clashed in Samarra Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003, killing 46 Iraqis and wounding more than 18 others in the biggest firefight since the war in Iraq ended in April. The family also suffered three other injuries and one arrest by U.S. forces. The U.S. military reports that the convoy was carrying money to pay Iraqi contractors when it was ambushed. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)
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After suffering shrapnel wounds on his legs and torso, Ali Abdullah Amin, 9, cries Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, upon learning from a neighbor's interview with reporters that his father was killed during clashes between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents, in Samarra, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)

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An Iraqi boy, wounded by a fragment during fighting after U.S. forces were ambushed by assailants on Sunday, Nov. 30, stands in fromt of bullet-riddled house door in Samarra, 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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People carry a wounded man from the scene of a car bomb which exploded outside the main gate to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition Sunday, Jan 18, 2004 wounding several Iraqis and at least one American soldier, a U.S. general said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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A wounded man receives medical treatment at the scene where a massive suicide car bomb exploded outside the main gate to the US-led coalition headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004. The blast early Sunday, killed at least 20 people, including two employees working for the US Defense Department, and injured over 60 others. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)
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Inside a hospital, wounded Iraqi Kurdish boy Zeid Salah Ahmed, age 6, recovers from cuts he sustained a day earlier in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing at least 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Wijdan Abdel-Wahab tries to comfort her sister Hayam who lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad with multiple gunshot and shrapne l wounds Tuesday Jan 13, 2004 after a car she was traveling in was fired upon in Baghdad on Monday night. U.S. soldiers opened fire at a car in the Iraqi capital, killing the driver and a 10-year-old boy, moments after an Army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, relatives said. One soldier was killed in the Monday bombing, the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Hussein Abid Khalaf, 54, gets comforted by his wife, no name available, in a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq Friday Jan. 9, 2004 after he lost one leg in an explosion in the town outside a Shiite Muslim mosque after midday prayers, killing up to five people and wounding dozens of others. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

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Fatma Hussein, 45, lies in a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq Friday Jan. 9, 2004 after she was injured in an explosion in the town outside a Shiite Muslim mosque after midday prayers, killing up to five people and wounding dozens of others. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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Two Iraqis wounded in a car bomb explosion at a Baghdad restaurant Wednesday night, Dec. 31, 2003, are shown Thursday, Jan.1, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. The death toll rose to eight in the car bomb attack that destroyed the restaurant crowded with New Year's Eve revelers, officials said Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. (AP photo/Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)

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U.S. soldiers inspect what is left from a car bomb in Baghdad Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. A car bomb exploded Wednesday as a U.S. convoy passed on a street full of shops, killing an 8-year-old Iraqi boy and wounding 21 people, including five U.S. soldiers and five Iraqi civil defense personnel, authorities said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iraqi girl Aween Aras, age 11, is kept company by relatives, inside a hospital as she recovers from wounds she suffered when a car bomb exploded near where she had been walking to school, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 35 others, police and officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Two Iraqi policemen lie in hospital beds in Fallujah, Iraq, both wounded when guerrillas launched an assault on an Iraqi police station and security compound Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004 freeing prisoners and sparking a gunbattle that killed 21 people and wounded 33, hopsital officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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A seriously wounded Iraqi Kurdish man is watched over by a woman, a day after he suffered wounds in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Boy wounded in car bomb attacks is offered water by an Iraqi police officer, in Hillah, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2004. As the June 30 deadline for sovereignty approaches, the aftermath of frequent terror strikes which spread anger and confusion, all could boil over into widespread violence and perhaps even civil war, many fear. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Ma'rwa Ahteemi, left, a 12-year-old wounded Iraqi girl, is helped by ambulance workers Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as she prepares to be transported to the National Center for Children's Rehabilitation while her uncle, Saleh Mohammad Ali, center right, and Maj. Mary Adams-Challenger, second from right, an Army physical therapist, and Sharnell Hoffer, M.D., look on. In Nov. 2003, Ahteemi sustained life-threatening spinal injuries during an accidental U.S. mortar attack on her home in the Sunni Triangle, north of Baghdad, Iraq. She has been paralyzed from the waist down and will undergo treatment at the National Center for Children's Rehabilitation, as no hospital in Iraq is equipped to meet the needs of a child with such serious spinal injuries. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Malonson )

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson talks with wounded U.S. soldier Pfc Kevin Farabaud, of the Apache Troop, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, during a tour of a U.S. military hospital, in Baghdad, Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. Farabaud suffered injuries a few nights earlier during a raid near the Iraq-Syria border. Thompson is on a weekend visit to Iraq. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley-Pool)
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An Iraqi woman Nadia Jumaa keeps her brother Hussein company, as he recovers from burns inflicted when a car bomb exploded in front of the police station where he worked, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 35 others, police and officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Iraqi police officers gather inside a morgue, trying to identify the charred remains of dead colleagues who were killed in an explosion outside a police station in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven other people and wounding at least 35, police and other officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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A doctor examines Shihab Ahmed, 22, who was wounded by an explosion outside a police station, at the Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad Tuesday Feb. 10, 2004. A car bomb exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Doctors of the Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad check the x-rays of Akil Shaker, 25, who was wounded during an explosion on Tuesday Feb. 10, 2004. A car bomb exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs. A hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U. S. Army Specialist Robert Fleming, center, offers a toast to members of his unit still serving in Iraq who are watching via satellite, after marrying April Zehr during a telecast of "Live with Regis and Kelly" in New York, Friday, Feb. 6, 2004. Joining the bride and groom and wedding party, are co-hosts Kelly Ripa, second from right, and Regis Philbin, right. Fleming was wounded by a roadside bomb four days before his tour in Iraq was to end. His wedding plans with Zehr were put on hold while he recuperated from extensive surgery.(AP Photos/Buena Vista Television )

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Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick, left, congratulates Pvt. Dwayne Turner, right, after awarding him the Silver Star, the third highest award for actions in combat at Fort Campbell, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004. Turner, a combat medic in the 101st Airborne Division, treated 16 fellow soldiers, saving the lives of at least two, while suffering from multiple untreated bullet and grenade shrapnel wounds during an attack in Iraq. "He is a bona fide hero," said Helmick. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)
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Breathing through a tube in his neck, wounded Iraqi Kurdish TV cameraman Sami Slewa Babka, age 41, is comforted by a family member, as he suffers from injuries incurred a day earlier in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Army Cpl. Allan Doyle, center, compares his prosthetic leg with his uncle Larry Parrish's leg, right, after Doyle's recognition ceremony at Pioneer Park Civic Center on Tuesday morning, Dec. 30, 2003, in Fairbanks, Alaska. Doyle's daughter Rhiya, 7, left, watches. Doyle had his lower leg amputated after a wall he was climbing onto collapsed on him while he served in Iraq. Parrish, who injured his leg in 1988, had to have his leg amputated five years ago due to ongoing complications with his injury. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)
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A U.S Army soldier treats an injured Iraqi blindfolded detainee, following one of a series of night raids, in Tikrit, Iraq, early Friday, Jan. 9, 2004. U.S. forces arrested 13 Iraqis wanted in connection with planning funding and conducting attacks on coalition forces. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Lt. Stephen Rice, right, receives congratulations from Brig. Gen. Charles Fleming of the Illinois National Guard at the Capitol in Springfield, Il., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, after a ceremony to honor Rice in the Senate Chambers. Rice was injured while on duty with the Illinois National Guard in Iraq in December. State Sen. William Haine, D-Alton, who was Rice's host, talks to Brig. Gen. Randal Thomas, at left. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Karen Elshout)
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An image from TV of two men carrying an injured man near the blast scene after a suicide bomber detonated 450 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of explosives in a pickup truck outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Jan. 18 2004, killing about 20 people and injuring more than 60 - most of them Iraqis. (AP Photo / APTN / RTL)

People load a wounded man into a truck to take him to a hospital from the scene of a car bomb which exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, outside the main gate to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition Sunday, Jan 18, 2004. Eighteen people were killed, and dozens of others injured, U.S officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	A relative helps Luay Ma'ssan, 26, a taxi driver who was wounded while driving by during a shootout between U.S. troops and insurgents in the town of Samarra Friday, Jan. 9, 2004. The incident took place Thursday night. No further details of the incident were available. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraqi Felah Hassan, 74, lies in a hospital bed after losing his right leg when a truck bomb exploded in Samarra, Iraq Saturday Jan. 24, 2004. Three Iraqi civilians were killed and 33 people injured in the blast, a U.S. military spokesman said. Three American soldiers were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Bushrah Youssef, 32, stares as she waits for treatment at al-Husseiniyah hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003. Suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted two coalition military bases and the governor's office in Karbala on Saturday killing six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian and wounding at least 172 people. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Soldiers of the 4th Infantry division carry a wounded soldier to the casualty evacuation station, in Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday Dec 16 2003. Three soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Saddam Hussein's hometown, but were not reported to be in serious condition. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)	An Iraqi Red Crescent worker and a policeman look at Ali Kassim, a 12 years old boy who was wounded in a suicide attack on a police station in Baghdad's Ameriyah district, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003. A suicide bomber drove his car into the gate of a police station wounding seven. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Hospital staff treat 26 year old Abdul Zahra Jaber, a bus driver wounded in a blast in Baghdad Friday, Dec. 5 2003. According to hospital officials, two people were killed and more than 20 wounded in the blast near a Baghdad mosque. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)	Iraqi police officers stand around their wounded colleague, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Mohammed, in Ramadi's hospital Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003. Four policemen were wounded when gunman opened fire with assault rifles and rpg's on a police station Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
FILE The traditional bony preparation of an exit wound and fracture system of the skull, right, is compared to a 3D reconstruction, left, showing all forensic criteria of an exit wound and fracture system of the skull in these photos released Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003, at the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago. The "virtual autopsy," as envisioned by a Swiss forensic pathologist, is a minimally invasive procedure that would ease the concerns of family members who might feel squeamish about a traditional autopsy or whose religion forbids it. (AP Photo/RSNA)	Khadum Hidwan holds his nine year old son Abbas after they received treatment in a hospital after they were wounded in a blast in Baghdad on Friday, Dec. 5 2003. According to hospital officials, two people were killed and more than 20 wounded in the blast near a Baghdad mosque. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Selman Mizban cries by his wounded brother Adil's side in Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital Wednesday Dec. 31, 2003. Adil was among at least 11 injured in In Baghdad when a car bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy passed on Palestine Street, a street full of shops, destroying one Humvee. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Daud Salim holds his injured one-year-old son Benin, at al-Husseiniyah hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003. Suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted two coalition military bases and the governor's office in Karbala on Saturday killing six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian and wounding at least 172 people. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Bahzar Ramadan, advisor to the Iraqi Minister of Construction and Housing, lies in hospital emergency unit after he was severely wounded by unknown assailants in Baghdad Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	An injured Iraqi tells of the blast at the office of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a major Shiite Muslim political party, in front of the debris in Baghdad, Friday, Dec. 19, 2003. An explosion hit the office Friday, leaving one person dead and several others wounded. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)
ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, DEC. 22 Nineteen-year-old Ali al-Jbouri is helped by his father Hussein as he shows his wounds at his family house in Baghdad, Dec 2, 2003. Ali was injured when U.S. soldiers shot up the car he was riding in one summer night in 2003 and killed his friend. Witnesses had seen Ali and another passenger who was also injured being taken away by U.S. troops. For over a month his father Hussein al-Jbouri crisscrossed the country looking for his son. He knocked on the doors of American bases, but got no answers. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)	A soldier consoles an Iraqi as U.S soldiers and Iraqi police officers gather at the scene where seven Iraqi police officers were wounded when a car bomb exploded in the western Ameriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 15, 2003. Eight others were killed in a deperate attack in a northern suburb.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Iraqis gather around rubble outside a police station in Khaldiyah, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 14, 2003. A car bomb exploded Sunday morning at a police station in this town west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 others, a U.S. military officer said. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)	Sgt. Brandon Erickson, left, and ski coach A.K. Watson, right, watch as Capt. David Rozelle stops during a racing clinic at The Hartford Ski Spectacular in Breckenridge, Colo., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003. Erickson and Rozelle and other wounded troops took advantage of some fresh snow at Breckenridge on Tuesday, learning how to ski and snowboard among friends familiar with the horror of war. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)
Sgt. Brandon Erickson, right, is awarded the Bronze Star by Brig. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk, the North Dakota Army National Guard's assistant adjutant general, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003. Pictured at left is Capt. Wade Warren. Officials surprised Erickson, 22, with the ceremony at Raymond J. Bohn Armory. Erickson had part of his right arm amputated after he was wounded in a rocket attack in July in Iraq. (AP Photo/North Dakota Army National Guard, Ann Knudson)	Iraqi police remove the body of a man killed in a blast in Baghdad, Friday, Dec. 5 2003. At least 1 person was killed and about 20 were wounded near the al-Samarrai mosque in Baghdad but it was not immediately clear what had caused the explosion. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
Salhah Aluwan, from left, Hasnia Abtan, Hamida Hussein, and Aruba Ali, grieve Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, the death of Sabah Hassan, 21, whom they say was wrongfully killed by U.S. mortar fire that landed in their garden as he made his way to the nearby mosque in Iraq. U.S. troops and Iraqi resistance fighters clashed in Samarra Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003, killing 46 Iraqis and wounding more than 18 others in the biggest firefight since the war in Iraq ended in April. The family also suffered three other injuries and one arrest by U.S. forces. The U.S. military reports that the convoy was carrying money to pay Iraqi contractors when it was ambushed. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)	After suffering shrapnel wounds on his legs and torso, Ali Abdullah Amin, 9, cries Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, upon learning from a neighbor's interview with reporters that his father was killed during clashes between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents, in Samarra, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)
An Iraqi boy, wounded by a fragment during fighting after U.S. forces were ambushed by assailants on Sunday, Nov. 30, stands in fromt of bullet-riddled house door in Samarra, 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	People carry a wounded man from the scene of a car bomb which exploded outside the main gate to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition Sunday, Jan 18, 2004 wounding several Iraqis and at least one American soldier, a U.S. general said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
A wounded man receives medical treatment at the scene where a massive suicide car bomb exploded outside the main gate to the US-led coalition headquarters in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004. The blast early Sunday, killed at least 20 people, including two employees working for the US Defense Department, and injured over 60 others. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)	Inside a hospital, wounded Iraqi Kurdish boy Zeid Salah Ahmed, age 6, recovers from cuts he sustained a day earlier in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing at least 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Wijdan Abdel-Wahab tries to comfort her sister Hayam who lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad with multiple gunshot and shrapne l wounds Tuesday Jan 13, 2004 after a car she was traveling in was fired upon in Baghdad on Monday night. U.S. soldiers opened fire at a car in the Iraqi capital, killing the driver and a 10-year-old boy, moments after an Army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, relatives said. One soldier was killed in the Monday bombing, the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)	Hussein Abid Khalaf, 54, gets comforted by his wife, no name available, in a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq Friday Jan. 9, 2004 after he lost one leg in an explosion in the town outside a Shiite Muslim mosque after midday prayers, killing up to five people and wounding dozens of others. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
Fatma Hussein, 45, lies in a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq Friday Jan. 9, 2004 after she was injured in an explosion in the town outside a Shiite Muslim mosque after midday prayers, killing up to five people and wounding dozens of others. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)	Two Iraqis wounded in a car bomb explosion at a Baghdad restaurant Wednesday night, Dec. 31, 2003, are shown Thursday, Jan.1, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. The death toll rose to eight in the car bomb attack that destroyed the restaurant crowded with New Year's Eve revelers, officials said Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. (AP photo/Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)
U.S. soldiers inspect what is left from a car bomb in Baghdad Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. A car bomb exploded Wednesday as a U.S. convoy passed on a street full of shops, killing an 8-year-old Iraqi boy and wounding 21 people, including five U.S. soldiers and five Iraqi civil defense personnel, authorities said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Iraqi girl Aween Aras, age 11, is kept company by relatives, inside a hospital as she recovers from wounds she suffered when a car bomb exploded near where she had been walking to school, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 35 others, police and officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Two Iraqi policemen lie in hospital beds in Fallujah, Iraq, both wounded when guerrillas launched an assault on an Iraqi police station and security compound Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004 freeing prisoners and sparking a gunbattle that killed 21 people and wounded 33, hopsital officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)	A seriously wounded Iraqi Kurdish man is watched over by a woman, a day after he suffered wounds in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Boy wounded in car bomb attacks is offered water by an Iraqi police officer, in Hillah, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2004. As the June 30 deadline for sovereignty approaches, the aftermath of frequent terror strikes which spread anger and confusion, all could boil over into widespread violence and perhaps even civil war, many fear. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	Ma'rwa Ahteemi, left, a 12-year-old wounded Iraqi girl, is helped by ambulance workers Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as she prepares to be transported to the National Center for Children's Rehabilitation while her uncle, Saleh Mohammad Ali, center right, and Maj. Mary Adams-Challenger, second from right, an Army physical therapist, and Sharnell Hoffer, M.D., look on. In Nov. 2003, Ahteemi sustained life-threatening spinal injuries during an accidental U.S. mortar attack on her home in the Sunni Triangle, north of Baghdad, Iraq. She has been paralyzed from the waist down and will undergo treatment at the National Center for Children's Rehabilitation, as no hospital in Iraq is equipped to meet the needs of a child with such serious spinal injuries. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Malonson )
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson talks with wounded U.S. soldier Pfc Kevin Farabaud, of the Apache Troop, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, during a tour of a U.S. military hospital, in Baghdad, Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. Farabaud suffered injuries a few nights earlier during a raid near the Iraq-Syria border. Thompson is on a weekend visit to Iraq. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley-Pool)	An Iraqi woman Nadia Jumaa keeps her brother Hussein company, as he recovers from burns inflicted when a car bomb exploded in front of the police station where he worked, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 35 others, police and officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Iraqi police officers gather inside a morgue, trying to identify the charred remains of dead colleagues who were killed in an explosion outside a police station in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle Monday outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of this ethnically divided northern city, killing at least seven other people and wounding at least 35, police and other officials said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	A doctor examines Shihab Ahmed, 22, who was wounded by an explosion outside a police station, at the Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad Tuesday Feb. 10, 2004. A car bomb exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs, and a hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Doctors of the Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad check the x-rays of Akil Shaker, 25, who was wounded during an explosion on Tuesday Feb. 10, 2004. A car bomb exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad as dozens of would-be recruits lined up to apply for jobs. A hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and another 50 injured. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	U. S. Army Specialist Robert Fleming, center, offers a toast to members of his unit still serving in Iraq who are watching via satellite, after marrying April Zehr during a telecast of "Live with Regis and Kelly" in New York, Friday, Feb. 6, 2004. Joining the bride and groom and wedding party, are co-hosts Kelly Ripa, second from right, and Regis Philbin, right. Fleming was wounded by a roadside bomb four days before his tour in Iraq was to end. His wedding plans with Zehr were put on hold while he recuperated from extensive surgery.(AP Photos/Buena Vista Television )
Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick, left, congratulates Pvt. Dwayne Turner, right, after awarding him the Silver Star, the third highest award for actions in combat at Fort Campbell, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004. Turner, a combat medic in the 101st Airborne Division, treated 16 fellow soldiers, saving the lives of at least two, while suffering from multiple untreated bullet and grenade shrapnel wounds during an attack in Iraq. "He is a bona fide hero," said Helmick. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)	Breathing through a tube in his neck, wounded Iraqi Kurdish TV cameraman Sami Slewa Babka, age 41, is comforted by a family member, as he suffers from injuries incurred a day earlier in one of two suicide bombing attacks at holiday political gatherings, killing 67 people, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. In addition to those killed, more than 200 were also injured in the attacks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Army Cpl. Allan Doyle, center, compares his prosthetic leg with his uncle Larry Parrish's leg, right, after Doyle's recognition ceremony at Pioneer Park Civic Center on Tuesday morning, Dec. 30, 2003, in Fairbanks, Alaska. Doyle's daughter Rhiya, 7, left, watches. Doyle had his lower leg amputated after a wall he was climbing onto collapsed on him while he served in Iraq. Parrish, who injured his leg in 1988, had to have his leg amputated five years ago due to ongoing complications with his injury. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)	A U.S Army soldier treats an injured Iraqi blindfolded detainee, following one of a series of night raids, in Tikrit, Iraq, early Friday, Jan. 9, 2004. U.S. forces arrested 13 Iraqis wanted in connection with planning funding and conducting attacks on coalition forces. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Lt. Stephen Rice, right, receives congratulations from Brig. Gen. Charles Fleming of the Illinois National Guard at the Capitol in Springfield, Il., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, after a ceremony to honor Rice in the Senate Chambers. Rice was injured while on duty with the Illinois National Guard in Iraq in December. State Sen. William Haine, D-Alton, who was Rice's host, talks to Brig. Gen. Randal Thomas, at left. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Karen Elshout)	An image from TV of two men carrying an injured man near the blast scene after a suicide bomber detonated 450 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of explosives in a pickup truck outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Jan. 18 2004, killing about 20 people and injuring more than 60 - most of them Iraqis. (AP Photo / APTN / RTL)