Monday, February 14, 2005

Finding out about the war-dead

Use these links to find out about casualties in the Iraq and Afghan conflicts:

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx - This site has a feature that enables you to organize the information by state, age, gender, place of death, country of death, cause of death, branch, unit, and rank of soldier. You can see it all - hostile fire, non-hostile vehicle accidents...the number, at this writing, is 1633 dead (not just US but soldiers from all involved nations). What's more, this site includes deaths of contractors (many killed through suicide bombing, ambush, and execution) and you can limit to Afghanistan war-dead. The site features statistics and graphs.

http://www.centcom.mil/ This is where the previous site gets its info, but there's no easy or obvious way to find a search of this data on the centcom site.

One example of how a state's media does it:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/veterans/azwardead.html

Know any others?

(Thanks to a friend for passing this info along to me. My deep sympathy to those who have suffered losses in these wars.)

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