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18 December 2004

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,346 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf


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9-year-old Ibtihal Jassem is rescued by her uncle Jaber Jouda, in Basra, Iraq, in this photo dated Saturday March 22, 2003, after the bombing of the Mshan neighbourhood by coalition warplanes. Born deaf and mute, Jassem not only lost her right leg in the U.S. bombing of Basra two days after the war in Iraq began, but also all seven members of her family. After she was rescued by Jaber Jouda, who found her with her right leg almost severed, Jassem has lived with her grandparents.(AP Photo/Nabil El Jourana)

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Posing for the camera, 9-year-old Ibtihal Jassem sits near her destroyed home in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Born deaf and mute, Jassem not only lost her right leg in the U.S. bombing of Basra two days after the war in Iraq began, but also all seven members of her family. After she was rescued by her uncle Jaber Jouda, who found her with her right leg almost severed, Jassem has lived with her grandparents since the March 22 2003 bombing of the Mshan neighbourhood by coalition warplanes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Posing for the camera, 9-year-old Ibtihal Jassem is carried by her uncle Jaber Jouda, near her destroyed home in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Born deaf and mute, Jassem not only lost her right leg in the U.S. bombing of Basra two days after the war in Iraq began, but also all seven members of her family. After she was rescued by Jaber Jouda, who found her with her right leg almost severed, Jassem has lived with her grandparents since the March 22 2003 bombing of the Mshan neighbourhood by coalition warplanes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Posing for the camera, 9-year-old Ibtihal Jassem stands on crutches near her destroyed home in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Born deaf and mute, Jassem not only lost her right leg in the U.S. bombing of Basra two days after the war in Iraq began, but also all seven members of her family. After she was rescued by her uncle Jaber Jouda, who found her with her right leg almost severed, Jassem has lived with her grandparents since the March 22 2003 bombing of the Mshan neighbourhood by coalition warplanes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Rasha Muhamed Jazem, 7, who lost her eye and was injured by an unexploded round of ammunition left behind after the war, cries at the Basra hospital in Iraq, Wednesday May, 07, 2003. When Iraqi forces fled, they left behind dozens of arms caches all over Basra, hidden away in schools and homes, others out in the open. Excess weapons are posing a constant danger in populated areas to civilians, especially children. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

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Gaida Ali, 13, an Iraqi girl recovers at the Italian Red Cross hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug.17, 2003.Ali lost her one eye as some unknown person shot her, while she was going to buy bread for the family. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Army Spc. Justin R. Burgess, right, is congratulated by actor Denzel Washington, left, as Washington pins a Purple Heart medal on Burgess' shirt, during a ceremony held to honor Burgess and two other soldiers, Spc. Connie R. Spinks and Staff Sgt. Alonso R. Buenrostro, not shown in photo, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. The three soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Iraq. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui)

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Actor Denzel Washington, center, smiles before presenting a Purple Heart medal to Army Spc. Connie R. Spinks, right, as Brig. Gen. C. William Fox looks on at Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. Washington was invited by the Army to present the medals as a surprise for the soldiers. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui)

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Spc. Jose Martinez, 20, visits burn patients at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003. Spc. Martinez, who was trapped for 20 minutes in a fiery ammunition truck in Iraq, was left with disfiguring burns on his face, head, arms and legs. He's been in surgery more than two dozen times since early April, and he's suffered untold pain from his wounds and skin grafts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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** CORRECTS SPELLING TO TEBBS, INSTEAD OF TIBBS ** Spc. Jose Martinez, right, visits with burn patient Nicholas Tebbs at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003. Martinez, who was severely burned while trapped for 20 minutes in a fiery ammunition truck in Iraq, spends much of his time cheering up other burn victims at the hospital. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, left, welcomes 1st Armored Division Staff Sergeant Jason Pepper, from Waldwick, NJ, center, and his wife Heather, right, while Pepper's mother-in-law Denise von Wiecki, background left, looks on during a welcome ceremony for troops of the 1st Armored Division at their base in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004. Pepper was seriously injured and lost one eye during fighting in the region around the Iraqi city of Karbala. (AP Photo/Str)

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Marine Sgt. David Bell is embraced by his mother, Betsy Bell, after returing home to Newark, W.Va., from Camp Pendleton, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003. Bell was training recruits on May 20 when a grenade launcher jammed and part of the barrel exploded, sending shrapnel into his head. The 27-year-old Marine lost his left eye in the accident, which also broke his jaw and every bone on the left side of his face. (AP Photo/Parkersburg News and Sentinel, Tony Kemp)

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U.S. Army Spc. Albert Ross, 21, of Baker, La. is consoled by his mother Daisy Carson, right, and Aunt Virginia Johnson, center, during a welcome home ceremony is Ross' honor in Baker on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004. Ross, a trumpet player in his high school marching band, lost his right leg while on patrol in Baghdad on Aug. 23, 2004. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Richard Alan Hannon)

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** CORRECTS TO FORMER MARINE ** Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces former Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr., during the Dallas Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in Dallas, on Thursday, Nov.11, 2004. Sgt. Graunke, who was a member of a Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July of last year. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Jim Mahoney)

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Former Army Spec. Robert Jackson adjusts his prosthetic legs, Monday, Sept. 27, 2004, at his home in Des Moines, Iowa. Jackson, who medically retired from the Army in June, is a spokesman for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes, a new group being formed to provide support for wounded veterans coming back to the United States. Jackson lost his legs in an explosion while serving with the Iowa National Guard in Iraq. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Fahim, 15, holds his crutches as he sits in a orthodpedic clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan in this June 2004 photo. Fahim was walking by an old Russian checkpoint in Parwan Provence near an airport when he stepped on a land mine. The clinic run by the International Committee for the Red Cross offers prosthetic feet and hands along with lessons in how to use them and rehabilitation. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Stormi Greener)

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In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a detainee sleeps inside his cell at Camp Five, a maximum-security detention and interrogation facility in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, June 30, 2004. His prosthetic leg is visible in the bottom. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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Afghan men pray at a Kabul mosque near the steps where they have left their shoes, and where a land mine victim has left his prosthetic legs, Friday, Oct. 8, 2004. Afghans will go to the polls on Oct. 9th., in the country's first ever direct elections. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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U.S. Army Spc. Albert Ross, 21, of Baker, La., removes his prosthetic leg in his Baker home after being honored by members of the Baker City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004. Ross, who re-enlisted for six more years after a rocket tore into both his legs while on patrol in Baghdad, is scheduled to return to San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston for further evaluation. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Richard Alan Hannon)

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Dr. A. Shaik, left, and Dr. Fred Kessler work on Alaa Shubbar's arm to prepare it for a prosthetic hand Monday, April 12, 2004, at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Shubbar had his hand amputated by Saddam Hussein's regime after being convicted of a crime in Iraq. He and six other Iraqis are in Houston to be fitted for new prosthetic hands. (AP Photo/Brett Coomer)

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Brad Kennedy, a certified prosthetist for the Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Flowood, Miss. prepares to load boxes of donated orthotic and prosthetic items for a trip to Fort Hood, Tex. on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004. The items will be moved to Iraq where Steve Lindsley, a captain with the 112th Military Police Battalion out of Canton, will use the donations to assist people who need prosthetic devices. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, J.D. Schwalm)

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Sgt. Luis Rodriguez, left, of San Juan, Puerto Rico., who lost his right leg in Mosul, Iraq, in November 2003, shows off his prosthetic leg to Sgt. Jeremy Gilbert, right, of Flippin, Ark., and Dave Roever, center, during a retreat for wounded soldiers of the 101st Airborne in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, June 5, 2004. Roever, the guest speaker for the retreat, was wounded in the Vietnam War and Gilbert was wounded in Kuwait in March 2003. (AP Photo/John Russell)

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**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF OCT. 16-17**Spc. George Perez, of the 1st Brigade of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, massages his leg Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, morning before PT at Fort Bragg, N.C. Perez, one of at least four amputees from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to re-enlist, intends to show a medical board he can run an eight-minute mile, jump out of airplanes and pass all the other paratrooper tests that will allow him to go with his regiment to Afghanistan sometime next year.(AP Photo/ Stephanie Bruce)

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Scotty Arias, center, surrounded by family and friends relaxes in Leonard, Mich., May 28, 2004, during a leave from Navy duty in Bahrain. After he lost his leg, many people did not think Arias would return to the Navy. But the 29-year-old, who enlisted 11 years ago in Michigan, beat the odds to become just the fifth amputee in U.S. Navy history to return to active duty. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Kathleen Galligan)

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Army Pfc. Garth Stewart, right, gets advice from double amputee Dana Bowman, standing, as therapist Bill Neu adjusts Stewart's prosthesis in Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday, May 29, 2003. The 20-year-old lost much of his left leg when he stepped on what he thinks was a land mine in Iraq just five weeks ago. (AP Photo/Mansfield News Journal, Dave Polcyn)

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U.S. forces arrest Iraqi a man, who lost his prosthetic limb in the scuffle, caught robbing the vaults of a burned out bank in central Baghdad Wednesday April 16, 2003. American troops raided the Rasheed Bank after hearing shots fired in the area and arrested more than a dozen men and removed dozens of sacks of Iraqi currency to their base. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Pvt. Keith Deutsch, of New Prague, Minn., shown here on Feb. 10, 2004, lost his leg while serving in Iraq, and he is now using a computer-aided artificial leg made by a company called Otto Beck, which is the leg of choice for the U.S. military. Deutsch pulls a snowboarding boot onto his artificial leg before heading off to go snowboarding (AP Photo/St. Paul Pioneer Press, Craig Borck )

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**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF NOV. 25-28 ** Staff Sgt. Joshua Olson tells the story of how he lost his leg, but survived a brutal fire-fight in Iraq with the help of his comrades, Oct. 27, 2004, during a visit to Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)

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An Afghan man who lost his leg in a landmine explosion begs on a bridge over the dry Kabul River bed on Sept. 30, 2004. Hamid Karzai, the nation's unrelentingly optimistic interim president, is the overwhelming favorite to win Saturday's vote against a large field of challengers, though it is not clear yet if he will get the majority necessary to avoid a runoff. What awaits after victory is a nation with great promise, but daunting challenges. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Nine-year-old Zeinab Hazed is tended to by her grandmother as she lies in Basra General Hosptial, Wednesday, April 9, 2003. Hosptial officials said that she lost her leg in a coalition bombing raid which killed 17 others including most of her family. The Hosptial has no fresh water or electricity at the moment. The fighting may be almost over but it is already too late for Zeinab Hazed Ali. She never even heard the bang from the British shell that took her leg. It also took the lives of her mother and three brothers. (AP Photo/ Dan Chung, Pool)

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Staff Sgt. Eric Alva waves to delegates after he was honnored during the GOP state convention in San Antonio, Friday, June 4, 2004. Alva lost his leg after stepping on a land mine in Iraq. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Brandon Olson, front, arrives in Bismarck, N.D., Monday afternoon. Dec. 22, 2003. Spc. Olson, a soldier with the Army's 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Ky., lost his leg just below the knee from an explosion in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Bismarck Tribune,Tom Stromme)

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Italian doctors treat Hassoni Abdullah,15, at the Italian Red Cross hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug.17, 2003. Doctors said that Abdullah lost his leg as he came under American bombing on March 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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An Afghan doctor from the Orthopaedic Center of the Red Cross, Sayed Musa, left, shows 12-year-old Afghan boy Mohammed how to put on a new pair of artificial legs in a Kabul suburb, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 19, 2004. The doctor, who also lost his left leg after stepping on a mine 21 years ago, periodically visits patients' homes to help them to have a normal life. Mohammed lost his legs because of a rocket explosion. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Hilbert Caesar, a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq war who lost his right leg in Baghdad, left, arrives for his U.S. citizenship swearing-in ceremony with Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services Eduardo Aguirre Jr., at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004. Caesar was sworn in as a U.S. citizen Tuesday, one of 8,000 U.S. military personnel who have become Americans in the past two years. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Spc. Brian Wilhelm, of Manchester, Iowa, from Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo., stands for recognition during military appreciation day at the Colorado state Capitol in Denver, Monday, March 22, 2004. Wilhelm was recognized for his service in Iraq where he lost his lower left leg to a rocket propelled grenade Oct. 7, 2003. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

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Airman 1st Class Scott Palomino, right, bowed his head in prayer along with others attending the Memorial Day Ceremony at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas, Monday, May 31, 2004. Palomino, who is from El Paso, lost his left foot and lower leg April 10 when a mortar round exploded in his tent in Iraq. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)

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Faheema Jassim Khalaf, 15, lies on her sleeping mat with her injured legs with her remaining family members posing for a photograph behind her, July 18, 2003, in Bayji, 250 kms (156 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. In the space of a few seconds, Faheema lost her mother and two sisters, along with her right leg below the knee and the use of her other one, in a May 30 attack by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi)

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Abbas Kissim, 26, comforts his son Hussein Bassin, 10, at Al Hillah's hospital, 75 miles south of Baghdad Wednesday April 2, 2003. Kissim, a driver, lost his arm following air raid attacks by coalition forces in the area Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Arriving home at SeaTac Airport, U.S. Army Spc. Kristopher Atherton is welcomed by family members and the bagpipers from the Tacoma Fire Department honor guard unit Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003 at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. Atherton, 24, lost most of his left arm in an enemy attack outside Baghdad last summer. Now back home in the Pierce County town of South Prairie, he finds himself a hero. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of Tacoma and the South Prairie Cares Committee will honor Atherton with a parade and party Nov. 29. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Russ Carmack)

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** RETRANSMITTING TO CORRECT SPELLING OF LAST NAME ERICKSON AND AGE TO 23** Political Science major Brandon Erickson is shown on campus during the summer session at the University of North Dakota, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004, in Grand Forks, N.D. North Dakota's colleges and universities are preparing for hundreds more students like Erickson, 23, _ young North Dakotans who traded in backpacks and baseball caps for combat boots, desert camouflage and a tour of duty in Iraq. Erickson lost part of his right arm last July after insurgents attacked his convoy. (AP Photo/Kory Wallen)

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Marine Capt. Jason Frei gives the keynote speach during a Memorial Day ceremony at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery in Mandan, N.D., Monday, May 26, 2003. Frei lost his right arm in March when he was hit by a rocket in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Fidela ``Lala'' Costales, 24, a nursing student who lost part of her left arm while serving in Iraq says she wants to become an Army nurse, in order to ``treat wounded soldiers the way that I've been treated'' May 30, 2004, in Palo Alto, Calif. Costales, who signed up for the Army reserve after graduating from high school in 1997, had completed just two semesters of nursing school when she was called to active duty in April 2003. (AP Photo/San Jose Mercury News, Meri Simon)

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Rasha Muhamed Jazem, 7, left, who lost her eye and was injured by unexploded rounds of ammunition left behind after the war, sits in her hospital bed as her mother Hamida Al Hamed, who lost three of her four children, tends to her niece Nura Jazem, who was also injured and is being treated at the Basra hospital in Iraq, Wednesday May, 7, 2003. Iraqi forces left behind dozens of arms caches all over Basra, some hidden away in schools and homes, others out in the open. Excess weapons are posing a constant danger in populated areas to civilians, especially children. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

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**RETRANSMISSION TO REFLECT THAT WRIGHT LOST BOTH HANDS, NOT ONLY RIGHT HAND** Cpl. James E. Wright, left, salutes the casket of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda Thursday, June 10, 2004 in Washington. Wright lost both hands during the war in Iraq. The officer at the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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U.S. Army 3rd ACR David Rozelle of Austin, Texas, second from left, is led to Air Force One by an unidentified agent, left, as Rozelle's wife, Kim, of Fort Mill, S.C., helps the couple's 6-day-old son, Forrest, to the plane after President Bush greeted the soldier, who lost his foot in combat in Iraq in June, at Denver International Airport on Monday, Aug. 11, 2003. Bush was welcomed by the soldier, who is stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a host of other dignitaries on the way to a fund raiser in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Orphaned Iraqi boys Ali Abbas, right, who lost both his arms during a bomb raid during the US-led war on Iraq and Ahmed Hamza who lost his left foot and right hand pose for photographers at Queen Mary's Hospital, south west London, as they prepare to be fitted with prosthetic limbs, Monday, Aug 11, 2003. (AP Photo/Adam Butler)

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With his grandfarther watching, with cap, Mohammaed Mahdi, who lost his foot because of a mine, receives the care of a Red Cross doctor in his home in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan on Monday, August 09, 2004. Mohammaed receives periodical visits from the doctors from the Orthopaedic Center of the Red Cross to help him to have a normal life. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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** ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND, NOV. 8-9 ** Major Lanier Ward, 37, walks down a hall with his daughter, Allie, 4, following physical therapy at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 20, 2003. Ward, an operations officer with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, was was injured in Baghdad when shrapnel from a powerful homemade bomb hidden amidst roadside debris struck his Humvee while on patrol. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, who is missing his right leg from above the knee down and has a fracture in his other leg courtesy of a land mine he stepped on in southern Iraq just hours after the war began in March, talks to the media at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Thursday, May 1, 2003. Alva, who is in the beginning stages of his recovery, hopes to be able to walk by the end of the summer, and after that, to run and finish the Marine Corps Marathon for a fifth time. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 6** Sgt. Richard Peters, left, goes over his medical file with Capt. Neil Stockmaster, Surgical Chief Residents, Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 during a routine examination at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Wash. Peters, a member of 737th Transport Company, has been on medical hold after being wounded in Iraq in late June when the truck he was driving was destroyed by a roadside bomb. He suffered shrapnel wounds to his left thigh and calf and hip, and a broken front cranium. (AP Photo/Karie Hamilton)

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Chief Petty Officer Anthony Muller is welcomed home by his niece Bethany Kirby, 6, at the Jacksonville airport, Saturday, May 15, 2004, in Jacksonville, Fla. Muller, a medic in the Navy Reserve, was injured while serving in Fallujah, Iraq. Muller was one of 20 wounded from a Jacksonville-based Navy Seabees. He returned to Jacksonville after a brief stay at a Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/St. Augustine Record, Justin Yurkanin)

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Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ty Shaw is hugged by his girlfriend Miji Hubert after talking to the news media at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle, Monday, April 14, 2003. The Longview, Wash. native is returning after treatment at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland for injuries he received in Iraq near Nasiriyah last month. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

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An unidentified Iraqi woman EPOW (Enemy Prisoner of War), is stretchered off a medi-vac Blackhawk helicopter by flight deck attendants while aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort after having just been flown in from Iraq Thursday April 3, 2003. The USNS Comfort is recieving both American and Iraqi casualties of war. (AP Photo/Adam Butler)

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Marine Lt. Andrew Turner, from Winston Salem, N.C., helicopter pilot and only survivor from a crash in Southern Iraq, talks to his superiors on the phone while recovering from a broken ankle Wednesday April 2, 2003 aboard the USNS Comfort hospital ship. The ship is sailing in northern Gulf waters has 1000 beds available for casulties caused in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Adam Butler)

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Cpl. Rowland Castellanos from Texas, left, Sgt. Jacob Hopkins from Columbus In., center, and 1st Lt. Andrew Turner, from Winston Salem, NC, recover from their war injuries Wednesday April 2, 2003 aboard the USNS Comfort hospital ship. The ship is sailing in northern Gulf waters and has 1000 beds available for casulties. (AP Photo/Adam Butler)

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Lt. J.G. Ramzy Azar, left, and Corpsman 2nd Class Bobbi Bowman enjoy a movie with an Iraqi civilian being treated aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort, Monday, March 24, 2003 The patient roster aboard the USNS Comfort has been the product of a lopsided casualty count in the war on Iraq. Navy officials won't give out numbers, but doctors and nurses said the vast majority of patients are Iraqis, including soldiers. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

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Surgeons work on a prisoner of war in an operating room aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort off the coast of Behrain Monday, March 24, 2003. The patient roster aboard the USNS Comfort has been the product of a lopsided casualty count in the war on Iraq. Navy officials won't give out numbers, but doctors and nurses said the vast majority of patients are Iraqis, including soldiers. AP Photo/U.S. Navy)