On 1 May 2003, US President George W. Bush announced the official end of the war in Iraq. But since then the situation in Iraq has been far from peaceful: the troops of CJTF-7 are attacked daily by Saddam loyalists and other resistance groups with different aims for the future of Iraq. The attacks range from drive-by shootings to convoy ambushes to suicide bomb attacks. Another deadly tactic is the placing of remote-controlled improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along convoy roads. Even coalition helicopters have been shot down by surface-to-air missiles. Some 362 US soldiers were killed in such incidents between I May 2003 and 19 January 2004. Together with the 138 killed in the war. the US Army at that time lost just 500 soldiers in Operation "Iraqi Freedom." An additional 2893 soldiers were wounded, some of them badly. The other 35 nations who have deployed soldiers to Iraq have lost only 95 killed, with 127 wounded.
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