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U.S. deaths in Afghanistan reach 640
Comments 0 | Recommend 0As of Monday, at least 640 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 Monday at 8 a.m. MDT.
Of those, the military reports 474 were killed by hostile action.
Outside
the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 68 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.
