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The quickest, easiest place to monitor coalition deaths in the war in Iraq may not be a military website.  It could be an understated but thorough web page maintained by two private citizens; one in California, the other in Georgia.  I talked with Michael White, a computer programmer near Atlanta, who launched the site "Iraq Coalition Casualty Count" about a year ago.  White's counterpart in California, who does much of the research, is Patricia Kneisler. In April, their site had 2.5 million visitors. (Jeff Horwich guest-hosts.)

The Department of Defense does now provide a daily update of the total casualty count on its website, though not nearly with the same level of detail.  I called their press office to ask about that. They called back, after this program was produced, and left a message referring me to this obscure but more detailed site. Image above: Public domain