Six Days in December.. Sixteen Soldiers Dead....

[leftchick]

Latest Fatality: Dec 05, 2004

Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
12-2004 16 0 0 16 2.67 6

http://icasualties.org/oif/

RIP... :(

on edit: I don't think these four from Sunday are included in this icasualties.org list. If not that brings it to 20 dead in December.

~snip~
Insurgents also targeted U.S. soldiers. Two were shot and killed during a patrol in Mosul's Palestine neighborhood.

Earlier in Mosul, two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded when their patrol came under attack, the US military said on Sunday.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/12/05/iraq041205.html

The DOD is certainly not making it easy to keep track of the dead soldiers.

[Downtown Hound]

1. Well, I guess our assault on Fallujah

didn't break the back of the resistance as planned. Any other bright ideas Mr. Bush?

[LisaM]

2. The news sources report it confusingly

they don't really give totals - just keep vaguely referring to two here, two there, etc. and not saying if they are talking about the same soldiers or not. As of last night, I thought that two U.S. soldiers total had been killed all weekend, then this morning I heard eleven, now sixteen. I don't know if they're trying to obscure the numbers or what's going on. This doesn't even begin to address the number of Iraqis killed, of course.

[katmondoo]

4. I am confused

Does this include the 3 killed today? I have the total at 1273.

[leftchick]

5. you are correct 1273...

All fatalities with active DOD links have been confirmed by The Department of Defense.
Total: 1273 Confirmed: 1269 Pending: 4

http://icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx

:(

[bullimiami]

3. it was one per day

then 2
now its close to 2 per day.

crap.