Wednesday, August 19, 2009

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 710

Source:  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A5L2900&show_article=1

Date: Aug 18 09:11 PM US/Eastern
By The Associated Press

OBAMA WAR ROOM PRESS PROTECTING HIM FROM RISING DEATHS

As of Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, at least 708 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 536 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 69 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.

There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.



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