U.S. Marine killed in Iraq

A U.S. Marine was killed in central
Iraq, the military said Sunday.
The Marine, assigned to the 2nd Light Armored
Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine
Expeditionary Force, was killed Saturday by an explosion
while conducting combat operations in the city of Hadithah,
the military said in a statement from Camp Fallujah.
The Marine's name was withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
As of Saturday, April 2, 2005, at least 1,533 members of
the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq
war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.