IRAQ

orlando sentinel: Toll on U.S. troops in Iraq grows as wounded rolls approach 10,000

ORLANDO, Fla. - (KRT) - Nearly 10,000 U.S. troops have been killed,
wounded, injured or become ill enough to require evacuation from Iraq
since the war began, the equivalent of almost one Army division, according to
the Pentagon.

Unlike the more than 2,800 American fighting men and women logged by
the Defense Department as killed and wounded by weapons in Iraq, the
numbers of injured and sick have been more difficult to track, leading critics to
accuse the military of under-reporting casualty numbers.