There is a possibility that the Pentagon (US Department of Defense)is hiding the US casualties under a disguise of "Baghdad Boils," a disease plaguing the US troops in Iraq, which the Pentagon claims is caused by sand fly bites, but may actually be caused by depleted uranium (DU) radiation.
Recent evidence proves that depleted uranium (DU) is the definite cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Fourteen years after its introduction, DU has been revealed as a death sentence, brought forth by Leuren Moret (cf. e.g. http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml and the sources to this article).
The biological particulate effect targets the Master Code in the DNA and causes numerous diseases difficult to define, but in effect devastating the human body for example with multiple malignancies and developing cancers.
Out of 580,400 soldiers in first Gulf War, 11 thousand have died and already by 2000 there were 325,000 permanently disabled, the number increasing by 43,000 every year.