ICasualties.org

Infobox Website
name = iCasualties.org



caption = Screenshot dated June 18, 2007.
url = http://icasualties.org/oif/
commercial = No
type = Nonprofit / user-supported
language = English
owner =
author = Michael White
launch date = May 2003
current status = Active
alexa = 54,378 (Feb. 20, 2008)

iCasualties.org, formally the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count,cite news
first = Anna
last = Varela
title = A somber tally in Iraq
url = http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/shared/news/world/stories/10/1017_COXIRAQ_CASUALTIES.html
work = The Palm Beach Post
date = 2005-10-17
accessdate = 2007-05-29] is an independent website [cite web
url=http://usiraq.procon.org/viewsource.asp?ID=4285
title=iCasualties.org
accessdate=2008-07-02
work=U.S.- Iraq ProCon.org] created in May 2003 by Michael White, a software engineer from Stone Mountain, Georgia, to track casualties in the Iraq War. [cite news
first = Matthew
last = Bigg
title = "Joe Blow" keeps track of Iraq war dead
url = http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22278688.htm
publisher = Reuters (via AlertNet)
date = 2006-12-28
accessdate = 2008-05-02]

The website compiles information on casualties incurred by the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan using news reports and press releases from the U.S. Department of Defense, CENTCOM, the MNF, and the British Ministry of Defence. The project has grown in scope since its conception, and now also provides fatality counts for contractors, Iraqi security forces (since January 2005), and Iraqi civilians (since March 2005).

The website is considered an "authoritative" record of MNF casualties in Iraq [cite news
title = US Military Struggles to `defeat' IEDs
url = http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146542,00.html
work = AP
date = 2007-08-20
accessdate = 2008-05-02] and has been cited by, among others, the BBC, Voice of America, "The New York Times", and "The Washington Post". [cite news
first = Nancy
last = Trejos
title = U.S. Toll In Iraq Reaches 3,000
url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100430_pf.html
work = The Washington Post
page = A01
date = 2007-01-01
accessdate = 2007-05-29]

ee also

*Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003
*Coalition casualties in Afghanistan
*Iraq Body Count project
*Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War

References

External links

* [http://icasualties.org/oif/ Iraq Coalition Casualty Count]
* [http://www.icasualties.org/oef/ Operation Enduring Freedom: Coalition Casualties]