Daily U.S. casualties 7/17/2004

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Daily U.S. casualties 7/17/2004

As of Friday, 886 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 654 died as a result of hostile action and 232 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 59 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 748 U.S. soldiers have died -- 545 as a result of hostile action and 203 of nonhostile causes.

There were no new deaths or identifications reported by military.