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Coalition Military Fatalities By Year

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Year	US	UK	Other	Total
2001	12	0	0	12
2002	49	3	18	70
2003	48	0	10	58
2004	52	1	7	60
2005	99	1	31	131
2006	98	39	54	191
2007	117	42	73	232
2008	155	51	89	295
2009	317	108	96	521
2010	499	103	109	711
2011	97	16	21	134
Total	1543	364	508	2415

 

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2001	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	4	12
2002	10	13	15	10	1	3	0	3	1	5	1	8	70
2003	4	7	12	2	3	7	2	4	2	6	8	1	58
2004	11	2	3	3	9	5	2	4	4	8	7	2	60
2005	2	3	6	19	4	29	2	33	12	10	7	4	131
2006	1	17	13	5	17	22	19	29	38	17	9	4	191
2007	2	18	10	20	25	24	29	34	24	15	22	9	232
2008	14	7	20	14	23	46	30	46	37	19	12	27	295
2009	25	25	28	14	27	38	76	77	70	74	32	35	521
2010	43	53	39	34	51	103	88	79	57	65	58	41	711
2011	32	38	38	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	134

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04/20/11 Agencies : Taliban kill 2 for supplying livestock to Afghanistan Taliban militants in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday killed a truck driver and his helper for supplying livestock to Afghanistan, a senior official said.

04/20/11 dailytimes: Kidnapped Iran engineers freed in Afghanistan Twelve Iranian engineers kidnapped in western Afghanistan have been released, police and officials in the two countries said on Wednesday. The men, who were working on a road construction project, were snatched at gunpoint on Monday in the Post-i-Road district of Farah province, which borders Iran.

04/20/11 LATimes: Plan rolled out to rescue troubled Afghan bank Afghan officials plan to sell part of troubled Kabul Bank, the country's biggest financial institution, in hope of clearing the way to resume international aid temporarily suspended last year after the bank's loan scandal.

04/20/11 DoD: Army Casualty Identified Pfc. John F. Kihm, 19, of Philadelphia, Pa., died April 19 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

04/20/11 AP: French marine killed, 9 wounded in Afghanistan The office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that a marine corporal was killed in Afghanistan and nine others were wounded in an explosion. Their armored vehicle was struck Wednesday during an operation in the Kapisa region where French soldiers are engaged as part of a NATO mission. The victims’ identities were not revealed. They were members of a marine infantry regiment.

04/20/11 MoD: Captain Lisa Jade Head dies of wounds sustained in Afghanistan the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Captain Lisa Head from 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Squadron, 11 EOD Regiment RLC, died on 19 April 2011, in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, of wounds received in Afghanistan. Captain Lisa Head deployed to Afghanistan on 27 March 2011 as an Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEED) (Neutralise) Operator with the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Task Force. She was based in Patrol Base 4 in the Nahr-e-Saraj District of Helmand province, Afghanistan.

04/20/11 vanityfair: Director of Afghanistan war documentary kiled in Libya Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Watch, in Geneva, a friend of Hetherington’s.

04/20/11 MoD: Soldier from 11 EOD Regiment killed in Afghanistan the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of a soldier from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, on Tuesday 19 April 2011. The soldier had been deployed on an operation to clear improvised explosive devices (IEDs) the Nahr-e Saraj (South) District of Helmand Province on Monday 18 April and was injured when one of the devices detonated.

04/19/11 WaPo: US-led coalition trains Afghan soldiers to spot rogue soldiers, police or impersonators Hundreds of Afghan soldiers are training in counterintelligence to stop Afghan and coalition forces from being attacked by rogue policemen and soldiers, or militants impersonating them.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (5 of 5) Spc. Joseph B. Cemper, 21, Warrensburg, Mo....assigned to the 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky...died April 16, at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (4 of 5) Sgt. Linda L. Pierre, 28, Immokalee, Fla...assigned to the 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky...died April 16, at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (3 of 5) Staff Sgt. Cynthia R. Taylor, 39, of Columbus, Ga...assigned to the 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky...died April 16, at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (2 of 5) Sgt. 1st Class Charles L. Adkins, 36, of Sandusky, Ohio...assigned to the 101st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky...died April 16, at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (1 of 5) Capt. Charles E. Ridgley Jr., 40, of Baltimore, Md. He was assigned to the 17th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska...died April 16, at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (3 of 3) Pfc. Joel A. Ramirez, 22, of Waxahachie, Texas...1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y....died of wounds suffered April 16, in Nimroz province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (2 of 3) Spc. Charles J. Wren, 25, of Beeville, Texas...1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y....died of wounds suffered April 16, in Nimroz province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.

04/19/11 DoD: Army Casualties Identified (1 of 3) Spc. Paul J. Atim, 27, of Green Bay, Wis...1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y....died of wounds suffered April 16, in Nimroz province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.

04/19/11 wired: Battered Soldiers, Broken Plan: Afghanistan in Video and Photos The 88-foot-long cargo hold of the massive airlifter has been converted into a makeshift intensive care unit. Metal stanchions hold collapsible stretchers fitted with heart monitors. Defibrillators, pumps, intubation kits, oxygen bottles and other equipment lie ready in their hardened cases.

04/19/11 AP: Jordan arrests brother of triple agent who blew himself up in CIA outpost in Afghanistan Jordan has arrested the brother of an al-Qaida triple agent who blew himself up in a CIA outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, killing seven CIA employees in what was one of the worst tragedies in the history of the American agency.

04/18/11 UN: Opium cultivation in Afghanistan expected to fall despite high prices Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to decline slightly this year despite the prevailing high prices of opium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported today, saying that Government effort to discourage production could yield further reduction.

04/18/11 nbcdfw: Military Mum on Death of Waxahachie Soldier The father of Pvt. Joel Ramirez said two Army officials came to his home and told him his son had been killed. But he said he hasn't heard much since then. "I don't know, exactly. I don't know because I don't know exactly what is the real truth," Chano Ramirez said.

04/18/11 AP: Afghan soldier opens fire at Defense Ministry An Afghan soldier opened fire Monday inside the country's Defense Ministry, killing an unknown number of people, a ministry spokesman said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents infiltrated the ministry and planned the attack to coincide with the visit of the French defense minister...

04/18/11 AP: Roadside bomb kills 6 Afghan policemen An Afghan official says six policemen have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan. Ghazni province Police Chief Gen. Zirawer Zahid says the Afghan policemen were on patrol on Monday morning in Jaghatu district when their vehicle struck a bomb planted in the road.

04/18/11 CNN: Attacks kill 9 security forces in Afghanistan Separate attacks killed nine members of Afghan security forces on Monday, including two national army staff members who were shot to death at the Afghan Defense Ministry compound in Kabul, authorities said.

04/18/11 AFP: One dead in Afghan protest One person died and ten others were wounded when shooting broke out at a protest north of Kabul on Monday against the detention of an alleged insurgent by foreign and Afghan forces, officials said.

04/18/11 AFP: Ten Iranian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan TEN Iranian engineers and five of their local colleagues were kidnapped by Taliban gunmen on Monday in a remote western region of Afghanistan near the border with Iran, an official said. The men were snatched at gunpoint in the Post-i-Road district in Farah province, which borders Iran, provincial government spokesman Naqibullah Farahi told AFP.