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...count of U.S. servicemen and women confirmed dead in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003, has now reached 2,987. That tally, however, doesn't account for the 13 Americans fighters whose deaths have yet to be officially confirmed by the Department of Defense, which most news organizations factor in to their count, bringing the number to a grim 3,000. December has been a particularly cruel month: at least 107 troops have died in Iraq over the past four week - the third largest monthly U.S. death toll since the invasion of Iraq. Here's a quick look...
...cell phones or garage-openers and often planted along routes frequented by coalition troops - have accounted for about a third of all combat deaths in Iraq since the war began. But over the past year, that proportion has grown to almost half; this month, IEDs have taken 63 U.S. servicemen's lives. Baghdad and the Sunni-dominated region to its west - the heart of the insurgency - have proved particularly treacherous. More than half of all coalition troops killed in Iraq died in these areas...
...April 1992, the U.S. was drawn into the conflict - at first guarding the relief, then delivering it, then attacking the warlords that were stealing it. In October 1993, in events depicted in the film Black Hawk Down, Somali militiamen shot down a Blackhawk helicopter over Mogadishu and 18 U.S. servicemen were killed in the crash and subsequent rescue attempt. After gruesome scenes of the bodies of some American servicemen being stripped and paraded through the streets of the city were flashed around the world, the U.S. withdrew from Somalia by March...
...roof of an adjacent building, a Marine was dead after getting shot in the face in gunfire that came with the mortar. About half an hour later, the dead and the wounded were brought to Brown, who says at times he struggles with his emotions when treating fellow servicemen and -women...
...Camp Ramdi's morgue sits a short distance away from Brown's hospital. On nights when dead U.S. servicemen and women lay inside, troops gather in darkness outside the doors in formation for what they call a "heroes' ceremony." The dead, wrapped in black body bags, are carried from the morgue, past rows of troops standing at attention, and loaded into ambulances. The troops then follow the ambulances in silence as they drive slowly to a nearby helicopter pad. There the bodies are placed onto lumbering Chinook helipcopters and begin a long journey from Ramadi to the places where they...