Daily U.S. Casualties 10/7/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 10/7/2004


As of Wednesday, 1,064 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 809 died as a result of hostile action and 255 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

The British military has reported 67 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; the Netherlands, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 926 U.S. military members have died -- 700 as a result of hostile action and 226 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Wednesday.

No new American deaths were reported by the military, and there were no new identifications.