City Newspaper Archives - 1/2008
COST OF WAR: The Iraq conflict by the numbers (1/2/08)
Published on Jan 02, 2008
TOTALS - 3898 U.S. soldiers, 307 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 79,913 to 87,060 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to December 28.
6459 Iraqi policemen and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports.
American servicemen and -women killed between December 20-25:
-- 1st Lt. Jeremy E. Ray, 26, Houston, Texas
-- Pfc. George J. Howell 24, Salinas, Calif.
-- Sgt. Peter C. Neesley, 28, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
SOURCES: www.iraqbodycount.org, www.icasualties.org
