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 Figures about American casualties in 2007 point out that the year 2007 was the worst in American and British number of casualties, exceeding previous years since the invasion.
American casualties in 2007, according to American counts, reached 901 killed and 5900 wounded, which is the highest in recent years.
American casualties in 2007 was higher by 52 than those killed in 2004 when American losses were 849, and higher by 79 from the year 2006 with 822 American losses, and higher by 55 over the year 2005 when Americans lost 856 soldiers.
If American casualties' in 2006 averaged 69 a month; the seven and a half months of 2007, after Bush ordered increase in American troops, the number of casualties averaged 93 per month, since February 2007 which representing an increase of about 35% from 2006.
Statistics published in a Pentagon's Quarterly Report said that American forces were the main target of armed groups' attacks reaching a record high, while Iraqi forces and civilians remained the ones who sustained most attacks.
The number of killed in the year increased greatly averaging more than 100 during each of the first three months of the year, May 126, April 104 and June 101.
May was the third bloodiest month for the American since the invasion in 2003.
November 2004 was the highest in American casualties that was a result from fierce confrontations with armed groups in Falluja, where American forces suffered 137 killed.
Then comes the month of April 2004, which was the second record with 135 American soldiers killed.
Out of the 900 Americans killed in 2007, American statements said that 135 of them killed in non-combatant activities, against 717 out of 3904 in the previous 5 years counting 18% killed in non-fighting incidents, such as drowning, sickness or car accidents.
The number of servicewomen killed in 2007 was 27, the highest since the invasion making the total number of servicewomen killed since the beginning of the war up to 92 out of 100 killed from all of the Allied forces.
May 2007 won a wide media coverage, when on May 12, gunmen attacked an American patrol near Mahmoudiya, 30 km south of Baghdad, killing four soldiers and an Iraqi translator, and three others missed. On May 23 a body of one of them was found the other two are still missing.
In addition to those two missing a third was added, when an American soldier of Iraqi origin, Ahmed Qais al-Ta'i, was abducted and the forth missing soldier, Keath Mobin, was kidnapped on 16 April, 2004.
As for other occupation forces, their losses, since the invasion in 2003, mounted to 307 soldiers killed, of the 174 British and the remaining 134 from other allied forces.
In the year 2007, Britain lost 47 soldiers, which is the largest number since the invasion in 2003 when Britain suffered 53 casualties, 22 in 2004, then 23 in 2005 and 26 in 2006.
According to latest counts, the losses of non-American forces rose to 304 from 19 countries.
Britain has the highest number of 174, followed by Italy 33, before it withdrew its forces, then Poland 23, Ukraine 18, Bulgaria 13, Spain 11 and the remaining countries with casualties less than 10 each.
According to statistics, about two-third of American casualties occured in Anbar province, 1276 and Baghdad, 1188. The remaining are distributed in other provinces. In Salah-Al-Din 368 killed, 217 in Diyala, 215 in Niniveh, 173 in Babil, 85 in Kirkuk, 52 in Thi Qar, 30 in Najaf, 26 in Diwaniya, 24 in Karbala, 13 in Wasit, 4 in Muthana, 2 in Misan and 1 in Arbil as well as 177 others the American statements did not specify the provinces where they are killed.
AMSI Net
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