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Pentagon's Latest Casualty Figures Say 101 Killed

The Pentagon on Wednesday said 101 members of the US armed forces had been killed in the war against Iraq.

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The Pentagon on Wednesday said 101 members of the US armed forces had been killed in the war against Iraq.

There were 399 wounded, 11 missing and seven prisoners, according to the Pentagon's latest casualty figures.

The Pentagon added a name to its list of missing in Iraq: Marine Sgt. Brendon C. Reiss, 23, of Natrona, Wyoming, who was last seen when his unit engaged in combat on March 23 in the vicinity of Nassiriya.

He is assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. The announcement was delayed due to next-of-kin notification, the Pentagon said.

The day that Reiss was last seen, also in the area of Nassiriya, Iraqi forces ambushed a convoy of the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company that made a wrong turn.

One soldier from that convoy, Pfc. Jessica Lynch, was later rescued in a nighttime raid from a hospital in Nassiriya.

The Pentagon also identified Pfc. Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr., 20, of Temperance, Michigan, as killed in action on Tuesday in central Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California.

Key Developments in the War Against Iraq

_ Liberated by US-led troops, thousands of Iraqis on Wednesday celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, toppling a statue of their longtime ruler in the center of Baghdad and looting government sites.

_ Marine and Army units swept through Baghdad � seizing or destroying buildings almost at will � but pockets of fierce resistance remained as looting took hold in some parts of the city.

_ Coalition forces began to turn their attention north toward Tikrit, Saddam's home town.

_ With the fall of Baghdad, top priorities for American forces in Iraq become recovering U.S. prisoners of war � including any still alive from the 1991 Gulf War � securing northern oil fields and unearthing illegal weapons, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.

_ Rumsfeld also said the United States is offering an unspecified reward to Iraqis who provide information about government officials and weapons of mass destruction, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.

_ Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohammed Al-Douri, said "the game is over" and expressed hope that the Iraqi people will be able to live in peace.

_ Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was difficult to know what was left of the higher ranks of the Iraqi government, and therefore who would be in position to surrender to advancing coalition forces.

_ Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States and its allies will lead Iraq's transition to a new government once the war is over and the United Nations should lead the relief work.

_ Saddam's whereabouts remained a mystery after an attempt to kill him with a bomb attack Monday. Opposition Iraqis say he may have escaped the city.

_ Iraqi opposition leader Ahmad Chalabi urged the US-led interim administration to leave Kuwait City and move quickly into Iraq.

_ The British and French foreign ministers agreed that coalition troops are needed to secure Iraq, but France repeated demands for a "central" United Nations role in rebuilding the country.

_ US special operations troops and Kurdish fighters eliminated a crucial air defense installation near the government-held city of Mosul. But fighting in the north was not over, and strategic oil fields near the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk remained under Iraqi control.

_ A Canadian worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed when gunfire strafed his car while driving through Baghdad.

Source: agencies

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