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Statistics

Deaths and wounded

YEAR	Coalition forces	Iraqi forces	Civilians	Enemy	TOTAL DEATHS	TOTAL WOUNDED, all categories
2004	747	1,031	2,781	5,995	10,554	18,567
2005	856	2,256	5,746	3,594	12,452	24,850
2006	821	4,370	25,178	4,657	35,026	41,164
2007	919	4,718	23,333	6,793	35,763	55,804
2008	282	1,948	6,362	2,635	11,227	23,632
2009	146	873	2,681	310	4,010	12,365
TOTAL	3,771	15,196	66,081	23,984	109,032	176,382

Causes of death

Category	Coalition forces	Iraqi forces	Civilians	Insurgents
Accident	428	256	599	22
Ambush	4	93	85	154
Arrest	0	12	20	56
Arson	0	6	114	6
ARTY	0	0	2	41
Assassination	0	183	246	7
Attack	86	1,167	1,627	3,775
Attack Threat	0	0	1	1
Blue-Blue	9	2	3	4
Blue-Green	0	51	4	0
Blue-White	0	0	62	1
Border Ops	0	0	0	2
Breaching	0	0	1	0
Cache Found/Cleared	2	10	28	236
Carjacking	0	5	27	5
Close Air Support	0	0	5	776
Confiscation	0	0	3	57
Cordon/Search	2	43	47	316
Counter Mortar Fire	0	0	0	24
Deliberate Attack	0	3	0	119
Demonstration	1	16	476	2
Detain	0	2	19	87
Direct Fire	482	4,270	4,766	6,807
Direct Fire Threat	0	0	1	0
Elicitation	0	1	0	0
Equipment Failure	4	2	3	0
Escalation of Force	0	22	686	70
Explosive Remnants of War (ERW)/Turn In	0	0	1	0
Green-Blue	5	14	3	0
Green-Green	0	58	17	2
Green-White	0	2	48	0
IED Explosion	2,107	5,990	20,228	3,455
IED False	0	0	3	0
IED Found/Cleared	6	31	90	579
IED Hoax	1	0	2	1
IED Pre-detonation	0	0	3	50
IED Suspected	0	0	0	37
IED Threat	0	0	0	2
Indirect Fire	192	284	2,087	1,040
Indirect Fire Threat	0	0	0	2
Intimidation Threat	0	6	18	1
Kidnapping	0	67	161	18
Kidnapping Threat	0	0	2	0
Looting	0	0	18	3
Medevac	3	1	5	2
Mine Found/Cleared	0	0	2	1
Mine Strike	37	24	30	6
Movement to Contact	1	0	0	77
Murder	9	2,169	32,563	73
Murder Threat	0	0	1	0
Other	194	72	584	437
Other Defensive	2	5	141	116
Other offensive	0	4	18	639
Patrol	0	3	43	61
Police Actions	0	1	14	32
Raid	12	75	86	619
Recon	0	0	0	13
Sabotage	0	2	6	0
SAFIRE	67	4	22	317
SAFIRE Threat	0	0	1	0
Search and Attack	0	0	0	90
Shooting	0	1	8	0
Small Unit Actions	27	13	65	3,129
Smuggling	0	1	5	2
Sniper Ops	86	173	62	364
Staff Estimate	0	2	380	0
Surveillance	0	1	8	61
TCP	0	0	5	25
Theft	0	8	57	14
Tribal Feud	0	14	138	5
UAV	0	0	3	49
Unexploded Ordnance	0	2	15	3
Unknown Explosion	4	24	284	61
Vehicle Interdiction	0	0	4	29
White-Blue	0	0	5	0
White-Green	0	0	0	1
White-White	0	0	20	0
Not known	0	1	0	0
TOTAL	3,771	15,196	66,081	23,984

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