Daily U.S. Casualties 10/12/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 10/12/2004


As of Friday, 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. There was no update over the holiday weekend.

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 Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Two soldiers were killed Monday in a rocket attack in Baghdad, Iraq.


A soldier was killed Monday when a car bomb detonated near a convoy in Mosul, Iraq.


A Marine was killed Saturday in Anbar province, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Pvt. Jeungjin Na Kim, 23, Honolulu; killed Wednesday in Ramadi, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, South Korea.


Army Pfc. James E. Prevete, 22, Whitestone, N.Y.; killed Sunday in Habbaniya, Iraq, in a vehicle accident; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, Camp Greaves, South Korea.


Army Pvt. Carson J. Ramsey, 22, Winkelman, Ariz.; killed Sunday when a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.