"They Sacrifice for Kellogg Brown & Root"
About Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
Born in 1971 in New York to a Jewish-American mother and Muslim Iraqi father, Dr. Wasfi spent part of her early childhood living in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. She returned to the US at age 5, earned her B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in 1993 and her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
Wasfi visited family in Iraq in 2004 and 2006 and based upon her assessment of Iraqi civilian life, became an advocate for “immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.” -- Wikipedia
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Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation
Edited by Margaret Griffis - antiwar.com
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03):
Total: 4,454
In Combat: 3,511
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03):
Total: 4,313
In Combat: 3,403
Since Handover (6/29/04):
Total: 3,595
In Combat: 2,878
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09):
Total: 226
In Combat: 107
Since Operation New Dawn:
Total: 36
In Combat: 17
American Wounded
Official: 33,041
Estimated: Over 100,000
Latest Fatality May 22, 2011
Page last updated 05/24/11 1:30 am EDT
Other Deaths
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq
Total: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan
Total: 1,582
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan
Total: 887
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq
Total: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq
Total: 348
Academics Killed - Iraq
Total: 448
Sources: DoD, MNF and iCasualties.org
U.S. lacks a mechanism to accurately track troops wounded in Iraq. There are an average of 18 suicides committed by US war veterans, every day.
American Count
Dates and sources of Americans killed in Iraq since 5/1/03 are documented in this file. Admittedly the file is incomplete, for the Department of Defense does not maintain old records. All data was compiled from http://www.defenselink.mil. If something is amiss in the data collection, please contact Margaret Griffis.
Iraqi Civilian Count
We maintain a daily count based on news reports. It is not intended to be complete. There is no agency that keeps track of accurate numbers of Iraqis killed. JustForeignPolicy maintains a running estimate based on the Lancet study with the rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count.
Comparing Civilian Casualty Studies
Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy explains the similarities between the Lancet and the the Orb estimates. Numbers from the Iraq Body Count site and the study published in the Lancet are compared at OpenDemocracy.net. The BBC published an article, which includes a response from IBC, that criticizes the large Lancet figures. Middle East expert Juan Cole also gives his opinion on the Lancet study here.
Sources and Links
US Military Deaths by Month from Icasualties.org
Faces of the Fallen
Department of Defense
Central Command
JustForeignPolicy
Icasualties.org Count
BBC Figures
Juan Cole Journalist Deaths in Iraq
Cost of War
Also see The Missing Wounded.
