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Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
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Gullington.
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At 15,0047 Eastern Time, an employee of
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the Department of War quietly updates a publicly
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accessible table, one column, one row.
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The figure 428 becomes 413.
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Fifteen wounded American soldiers disappear from the official
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record of a war that formally ended 13
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days earlier.
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No press release, no statement, no explanation.
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In the history of American military reporting, casualty
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numbers move in one direction, upward.
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Traumatic brain injuries surface late.
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Burns hit reclassified, soldiers return to duty prove
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worse off than expected, and re-enter the
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statistics.
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Numbers do not fall.
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Unless someone removes them.
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This is a case file.
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The Pentagon has refused to answer.
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Cooperation epic fury.
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The codename for the American military operation against
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Iran launched on February 28, 2026,
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in synchronization with Israeli strikes against Tehran, Natanz,
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and Pastur Street.
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In the 40 days leading to the fragile
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ceasefire of April 8, CENTCOM reports over 13
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,000 airstrikes,
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155 Iranian vessels destroyed,
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and,
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more than 50,000 American service members deployed
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across the region.
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On the American side, 13 officially confirmed dead,
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and one constantly shifting count of wounded.
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We begin at the point where those numbers
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are assembled.
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Defense Casualty Analysis System.
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DCAS.
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A centralized database that the Department of Defense
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has maintained in various forms since the First
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World War.
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Intuit.
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Flow names.
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Dates.
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Locations.
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Injury Classifications.
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The classifications carry weight.
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Hostile.
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Under enemy attack.
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Non-hostile.
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Incident.
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Illness.
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Non-combat fire.
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Combat related and non-combat related.
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A distinction that determines how a soldier's body
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will be transported,
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how the family will be compensated,
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and whether the name will appear in the
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public record.
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The path from the battlefield to the database
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passes through several chapters.
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checkpoints.
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Initial medical evacuation to a field hospital, then
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Landstuhl, regional medical center in
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Germany.
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From there, Walter Reed in Maryland or Brooke
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Army Medical Center in Texas, home to the
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department's only level one trauma unit and its
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leaving burn center.
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At each stage a document is generated.
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At each stage reclassification is possible.
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Reports from mid-March indicate that roughly 25
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wounded soldiers were being treated at
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Landstuhl, 12 were transferred to Walter Reed, one
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to Brooke.
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These numbers also shift.
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What percentage of them are officially counted in
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DCAS as WIA, wounded in action, depends
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on a decision made far from the battlefield,
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usually in an office without windows.
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And this is where the problem begins.
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The investigation begins.
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The first report is by journalist Nick Terse
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of The Intercept, published April 21 and 22,
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2026.
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Chronology of the numbers.
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April 7, Captain Tim Hawkins, spokesperson for CENTCOM,
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reports 373 wounded.
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April 8, same structure, same operation.
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The new figure, 381.
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By April 20, the count has grown to
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428.
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On April 24, it drops to 430.
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Without a press release.
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On April 22, a third public version appears,
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in which the grand total of wounded and
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dead
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stands at 411.
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And on that same date, in a public
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statement, President Trump gives the total number of
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dead as 13 service members.
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But one name is missing from the DKAS
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list.
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Major Sorefly Davias.
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A signals and communications officer from the New
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York Army Navy.
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He was a member of the National Guard,
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assigned to the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry
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Division.
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Died on March 6, 2026, at Camp Boring,
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Kuwait, while on duty in support of Operation
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Epic
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Fury.
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His name was spoken at a memorial service
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by Congressman Mike Lawler, publicly acknowledged
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by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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Staff, General Dan Kaine, honoring the fallen of
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the war.
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But it is not in the database.
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For weeks, the Pentagon has ignored reports of
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the death of General Dan Kaine.
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The U.S.
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Department of Defense has been working on the
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case, and has repeatedly denied
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any requests for comment on his absence.
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This is not the only discrepancy.
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USS Gerald R.
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Ford.
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The largest aircraft carrier in the theater of
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operations.
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On March 12, a fire breaks out in
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a laundry compartment aboard.
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Multiple sailors suffer smoke inhalation.
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The Navy classifies the incident as non-combat.
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Before the fire, Ford had been operating under
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Iranian strikes for weeks.
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The ship had multiple aircrafts, including three of
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which were damaged.
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The Navy has reported multiple mechanical problems, including
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a malfunctioning sewage
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treatment system.
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On March 17, it pauses strike aircraft operations
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and sails toward the naval base at Crete
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for
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repairs.
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If over 264 wounded sailors from Ford were
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added to the combat count, the Navy category
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would overtake Army as the most affected branch.
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They have not been added.
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Separately.
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An Iranian drone strike on the Crowne Plaza
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Hotel in Manama, Bahrain, has been reported.
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The attack will be repeated three times by
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the FBI
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until musing of on March 11, 2022.
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In March, marry in Boston.
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Attenborough State Department began reporting toward Washington today
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that their cabin crew
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Bill Jordan The Americanpper the U.S.
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special diversion department
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will be meeting access control at the Sh
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Sooner employee with the USS William Elliott nãoوجescu
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sheet Israel Capitol сохранidade Paul Broad shore
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of the aye California Fック and his квick
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from 2008 Fett
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wanderer over to New York,
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Uzbekistan will be doing targeted surveillance of operation
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-and- sagte an August 2019 seemed to
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be too short togel
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This pattern has a precedent.
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January 2020.
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American forces eliminate General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.
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Iran responds with ballistic strikes on al-Assad
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airbase in Iraq.
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Initial official report.
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Zero casualties.
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One week later, 11 cases of traumatic brain
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injury.
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Two weeks later, 34.
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One month later, 50.
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Final tally.
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Finally, months afterward, over 110.
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In that case, the numbers moved in the
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expected direction.
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Upward.
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Traumatic brain injuries manifest with delay.
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Symptoms, headache, cognitive disruption, sleep disturbance, mood changes
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often surface after operations end.
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Veterans are identified through screening months later.
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In Operation Epic Fury, the opposite is happening.
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Numbers move downward after combat ceases.
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This is mathematically unusual and clinically difficult to
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explain.
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A traumatic brain injury, once diagnosed, is not
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undiagnosed.
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A soldier, once added to DCAS, has no
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standard administrative process by which they are removed,
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unless they were added in error or never
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properly added to begin with.
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The ceasefire between the United States and Iran
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still holds.
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Technically.
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But not yet.
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But the system designed to document the human
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cost of this war has generated at least
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four different official figures across five days.
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The Pentagon does not respond to requests for
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comment on the discrepancies.
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CENTCOM cut off correspondence with The Intercept after
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being confronted with the initial inconsistencies.
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The Office of the Secretary of War provided
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a new tally that, according to the same
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investigation, continues to undercount losses.
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The case file remains open.
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The McCall's
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The Honorary Rightful
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ofone of 4G military officials, the Vice Vice
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Attorney General to the Wing brake the
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Given to him by the Force, solid time,
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a command training to 43, Zaabin,으면ir against
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Abram Benioff, También al relativamente sano al President
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de la Fuerza bathing and saving the rudy
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Air accommod jade Martinique,
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guerra fu y deцы respbei navcentes a la
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precaution andalled the federation.
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But not entirely.
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Some trials tend to be blown on the
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capacity ofAtrainers, which can be attempted at speedaws,
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away from the airplane.
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But now the preventive measures,
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and 95 portions of service, can eventually be
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made.
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That's because—
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backgrounds soup Über flowerseeded for Institution in the
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18th century, are being energized for protection from
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Al Philipp georg.
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form the numbers in it move in reverse
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during an active operation.
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Fragment 0 will track the case file.
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Numbers published so far 428, 413, 411.
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The next number will reveal whether this is
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noise in the system or policy.
