To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass
media, City Newspaper will run weekly
lists of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the occupation of
Iraq.
The totals:
1,281 American soldiers, 146 Coalition soldiers, and
approximately 14,668 to 16,853 Iraqicivilians have been killed in Iraq
(a recent survey published by Lancet medical journal estimates as many as 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed) from the
beginning of the war and occupation to December 13.
American soldiers
killed from December 7-13:
Corporal Joseph O. Behnke, 45; Brooklyn, New York | Staff
Sergeant Kyle A. Eggers, 27; Euless, Texas | Corporal In C. Kim, 23; Warren,
Michigan | Private First Class Andrew M. Ward, 25; Kirkland, Washington |
Sergeant First Class Todd C. Gibbs, 37; Angelina, Texas | Captain Mark N.
Stubenhofer, 30; Springfield, Virginia | Corporal Kyle J. Renehan, 21; Oxford,
Pennsylvania | Sergeant Arthur C. Williams IV, 31; Edgewater, Florida | Private
First Class Christopher S. Adlesperger, 20; Albuquerque, New Mexico | Chief
Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach, 39; Rock Hill, South Carolina | First
Lieutenant Andrew C. Shields, 25; Campobello, South Carolina.
Sources: US Department
of Defense, www.icasualties.org, The New York Times,
www.iraqbodycount.net
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2004.
