I don't think we have a correct number of KIAs. Many press reports say that casualties are only those published by the Pentagon or revealed by surviving family. There are probably more - who knows how many.
I was thinking the same thing. They're probably unconfirmed KIA's... From what I heard today, we have as many "missing" as we do confirmed deaths...
I think a lot of it's because of the sandstorms. I read an article in one of the Boston newspapers (Globe or Herald) about a local Army tanker who walked 10 feet away from his tank and got completely lost, and remained so until the storms let up several hours later and someone found him, most of the "missing" are not so lucky and my guess is that most are either POWs or dead (either by Iraqis or by starvation/exposure/etc). Alex
probably KIA. if they were POW's you would see them on iraqi television within about 30 minutes. the fighting in these towns <al nasiriya> is urban warfare where soldiers can take a wrong turn down a street, or enter the wrong house, and become seperated from their larger units and then encounter iraqi soldiers.
And the usual guerrilla tactics makes no (or very little) prisoners. They (guerilla) have to have freedom of movement and they don't leave an enemy alive behind.