List of private contractor deaths in Iraq

As of June 23, 2011, 749 foreign private contractors died in Iraq during the Iraq War. Of those, 355 were Americans,^[1]^[2] at least 130 were Turks,^[3] and 58 were Britons.^[4] 225 of those killed were private military contractors (PMCs).

Foreign contractor deaths in Iraq by country

USA: 355^[1]^[2]
Turkey: 130+^[3]
UK: 58^[4]
South Africa: 29
Fiji: 20
Nepal: 20
Philippines: 15
Pakistan: 8
Australia: 7
India: 7
Russia: 7
Bulgaria: 6
Jordan: 6
Canada: 5
Egypt: 5
Iran: 5
Moldova: 5
Poland: 4
Germany: 4
Lebanon: 4
Republic of Macedonia: 4
New Zealand: 4
South Korea: 4
Croatia: 3
France: 3
Ukraine: 3
Bosnia: 2
Finland: 2
Hungary: 2
Italy: 2
Uganda: 2
Austria: 1
Brazil: 1
Colombia: 1

Czech Republic: 1
Denmark: 1
Guam: 1
Honduras: 1
Indonesia: 1
Japan: 1
Kuwait: 1
Netherlands: 1
Peru: 1
Portugal: 1
Romania: 1
Somalia: 1
Sudan: 1
Syria: 1
Sweden: 1

Total deaths: 749+

The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed that by the end of March 2009, 917 civilian contractors were killed in Iraq, of which 224 (23%) were U.S. citizens. This number was updated to 1,537, by the end of March 2011, with an estimated 354 of these being U.S. citizens.^[5]^[1] The total number of dead was further updated to 1,569, by July 20, 2012.^[6]

The violence has escalated to 3,650 total mercenary deaths in Iraq as of March 2023.^[7]

These tables document the deaths of private contractors in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, during and after the Iraq War. These individuals were employed by various companies, often providing support services such as security, logistics, construction, and translation for military and reconstruction efforts. The data includes nationality, name, company, role, cause of death, and sources where available.

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Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
April 10, 2003	American	Robert Grimm	National Response Corp. of Long Island	Fireman	Vehicle accident on Iraq–Kuwait border	^[8]
May 5, 2003	Swiss	Jacob Andersen	Unknown Building Corporation	Unknown	Killed by masked men with knives	^{[citation needed]}
July 10, 2003	American	Name unknown	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Vehicle accident near Basra	^{[citation needed]}
July 21, 2003	British	Peter Rudolf	Sub-Surface Eng'g	Diver	Drowned during dive near Umm Qasr	^[9]
August 5, 2003	American	Fred Bryant Jr.	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Roadside bomb near Tikrit	^[10]
August 10, 2003	Nepali	Name unknown	Unknown	Private military company	Killed by a riot in Basra	^[11]
August 19, 2003	Assyrian American	Nadan Audisho Younadam	U.S. Army	Translator	Killed in an ambush in Tikrit	^[12]
September 3, 2003	American	Vernon Gaston	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Operations Manager	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^[13]
September 4, 2003	British	Ian Rimell	Mines Advisory Group	Bomb disposal expert	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^[14]
September 12, 2003	Jordanian	Name unknown	Jordanian hospital	Private Military Contractor	Killed by friendly fire in Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
September 25, 2003	Somali	Name unknown	"al-Aike" hotel	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a bomb in Baghdad	^[15]
October 9, 2003	American	Kirk von Ackermann	IREX Services	Private Military Contractor	Captured on a road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, still missing and presumed dead	^[16]
November 2, 2003	American	Roy Buckmaster, David Dyess	EOD Technology, Inc.	Bomb disposal experts	Roadside bomb in Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
November 13, 2003	American	Forrest Snare	IAP Worldwide Services	Private contractor	Killed in an ambush west of Balad	^{[citation needed]}
November 17, 2003	American	Brent McJennett	Proactive Communications Inc	Communications contractor	Killed by a land mine in Tikrit	^[17]
November 21, 2003	Hungarian	Péter Varga-Balázs	ToiFor Kft	Truck driver	Killed by friendly fire near Ramadi	^[18]
November 23, 2003	American	Todd Drobnick, Gordon Sinclair	Titan National Security Solutions	Translators	Vehicle accident between Mosul and Duhok	^[19]
November 29, 2003	Colombian	Jorge Arias Duque	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Balad	^{[citation needed]}
November 30, 2003	South Korean	Man-Soo Kim, Kyung-Hae Kwak	Omu Electric Co.	Electricians	Killed in an ambush south of Tikrit	^[20]
December 14, 2003	American	Ryan Manelick	IREX Services	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^[21]

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
January 5, 2004	Canadian	Richard Flynn	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb	^[22]
January 6, 2004	French	Names unknown (2 individuals)	Unknown	Private contractors	Killed in an ambush in Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
January 14, 2004	American	Names unknown (2 individuals)	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck drivers	Killed in an ambush near Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
January 21, 2004	American	Jody Deatherage	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed in a vehicle accident	^[23]
January 24, 2004	Pakistani	Habibur Rehman	Saudi Arabian firm	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
January 26, 2004	American	Arthur Linderman Jr.	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Tikrit	^[24]
January 29, 2004	South African	Francois Strydom	SAS International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^[25]
February 8, 2004	Fijian	Tomasi Ramatau	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractor	Killed in a mortar attack in Baghdad	^[26]
February 16, 2004	American	Ray Parks	American Services	Contract manager	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^[27]
February 23, 2004	American	Albert Luther Cayton	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb	^[28]
March 1, 2004	American	Travis B. Whitman	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Killed in a vehicle accident in Baghdad	^[29]^[30]
March 16, 2004	Dutch, German	Names unknown (1 Dutch, 1 German)	Unknown	Water project engineers	Killed in an ambush near Hillah	^[31]
March 17, 2004	British	Scott Mounce	Italian communications company	Telecommunications engineer	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^[32]^[33]
March 22, 2004	Finnish	Seppo Haapanen, Jorma Toronen	Entso, Air-Ix	Businessmen	Killed in a drive-by attack in western Baghdad	^[34]
March 28, 2004	Canadian, British	Andy Bradsell, Christopher McDonald	Olive Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^[35]
March 31, 2004	American	Wesley Batalona, Scott Helvenston, Michael Teague, Jerko Zovko	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Ambushed and massacred in Fallujah, bodies mutilated and hanged	^[36]
April 1, 2004	Czech	Jiří Juran	Chemoprojekt	Petrochemical expert	Killed in an accidental gas explosion at a refinery in Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
April 3, 2004	American	Emad Mikha	Titan National Security Solutions	Translator	Died in his sleep in Miqdadiyah	^[37]
April 6, 2004	South African	Gray Branfield	Hart Security Company	Private Military Contractor	Killed during street fighting in Al Kut, body mutilated and hanged	^[38]
April 6, 2004	Bulgarian	Mario Manchev	SOMAT	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush south of Nasiriyah	^{[citation needed]}
April 7, 2004	German	Tobias Retterath, Thomas Hafenecker	GSG-9	Embassy guards	Ambushed by Iraqi terrorists near Fallujah. Retterath was killed; Hafenecker is missing	^[39]
April 8, 2004	American	Tim Smith	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
April 9, 2004	British	Michael John Bloss	Custer Battles	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Hit	^[40]
April 9, 2004	American	William Bradley, Timothy Bell, Stephen Hulett, Steven Scott Fisher, Tony Duane Johnson, Jack Montague, Jeffery Parker	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck drivers	Convoy ambushed and decimated in Baghdad	^[41]
April 9, 2004	Nepali	Ram Bahadur Gurung, Shiva Prasad Lawati	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a land mine in northern Iraq	^[42]
April 10, 2004	American	Nick Berg	Unknown	Businessman	Captured in Baghdad and executed on May 7	^{[citation needed]}
April 11, 2004	Danish	Henrik Frandsen	Unknown	Businessman	Shot and killed in Baghdad	^[43]
April 11, 2004	Romanian	Aron Alexandru	Bidepa	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^[44]
April 12, 2004	South African	Hendrik Visagie	Erinys International	Private Military Contractor	Died of wounds from an ambush while escorting a convoy	^[45]
April 13, 2004	Italian	Fabrizio Quattrocchi	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Captured and executed	^[46]
April 22, 2004	South African	Francois de Beer	Meteoric Tactical Solutions	Private Military Contractor	Shot and killed in Baghdad	^[47]
April 25, 2004	American	Thomas Carter, Vincent Foster	Cochise Consultancy Inc.	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a roadside bomb near Baiji	^[48]
April 28, 2004	Filipino	Rodrigo Reyes	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Abdali, near the Kuwait border	^{[citation needed]}
April 29, 2004	South African	Name unknown	Construction company	Private Military Contractor	Shot and killed in Basra	^{[citation needed]}
April 30, 2004	American	Mike Price	Cochise Consultancy Inc.	Private Military Contractor	Mortally injured by a roadside bomb near Baiji	^[49]
Date Unknown	South African	Name unknown	British security company	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a land mine in Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
May 1, 2004	American	Christian F. Kilpatrick	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Tikrit	^[50]
Date Unknown	Turkish	Cemal Ugar	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
May 2, 2004	Fijian	Kelepi Qaranivalu, Emori Vunibokoi	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^[51]
May 3, 2004	American	Aban Elias	Unknown	Civil engineer	Captured in Baghdad, still missing and presumed dead	^[52]
May 7, 2004	American	Daniel Parker	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad	^[53]
May 7, 2004	Polish	Waldemar Milewicz, Mounir Bouamrane	Polish National TV	Journalist, Cameraman	Killed in an ambush in Latifiya	^[54]
May 10, 2004	New Zealander, South African	John Robert Tyrrell, William (Bill) John Richard	Iraqi construction company	Engineers	Killed in an ambush in Kirkuk	^[55]
May 10, 2004	Russian	Alexei Konorev	InterEnergoServis	Construction worker	Killed in an ambush in Musayyib, south of Baghdad	^[56]
May 11, 2004	Filipino	Raymundo Natividad	Prime Projects International	Warehouseman	Killed in a mortar attack near Balad	^{[citation needed]}
May 12, 2004	Turkish	Suayip Kaplanli, Name unknown	Yuksel Construction	Construction workers	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
May 13, 2004	American	Henry Doll, Jesse Gentry	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractors	Killed in a vehicle accident near Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
May 14, 2004	British	Brian Tilley	Egyptian communications project	Private Military Contractor	Killed in his home	^[57]
May 18, 2004	British	Andrew Harries	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush between Mosul and Erbil	^[58]
May 24, 2004	British	Mark Carman, Bob Morgan	Control Risks Group, British Foreign Office	Private Military Contractor, Petroleum consultant	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad	^[59]
May 25, 2004	Russian	Viktor Dynkin, Vyacheslav Ovsyannikov	InterEnergoServis	Power plant technicians	Killed in an ambush south of Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
May 30, 2004	American	Bruce Tow	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 2, 2004	American	Richard Bruce	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractor	Killed in a vehicle accident	^{[citation needed]}
June 5, 2004	American	Jarrod Little, Chris Neidrich	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 5, 2004	Polish	Krzysztof Kaskos, Artur Zukowsk	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 5, 2004	American	James Gregory Wingate	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb near Haditha	^{[citation needed]}
June 5, 2004	British	Craig Dickens	ArmourGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^[60]^[61]
June 11, 2004	Lebanese	Hussein Ali Alyan	Unknown	Construction worker	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
June 13, 2004	American	Shaun Fyfe	Environmental Chemical Corp. International	Construction worker	Died of natural causes	^{[citation needed]}
June 14, 2004	American	Bill Hoke II	Granite Services, Inc.	Power industry worker	Killed by a car bomb in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 14, 2004	British	Keith Butler, John Poole	Olive Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a car bomb in Baghdad	^[62]
June 14, 2004	French	Name unknown	Granite Services, Inc.	Power industry worker	Killed by a car bomb in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 14, 2004	Filipino	[Raul Flores	Granite Services, Inc.	Power industry worker	Killed by a car bomb in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 14, 2004	American	Rex G.Sprague III	Titan National Security Solutions	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 17, 2004	American	Walter J. Zbryski	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb	^{[citation needed]}
June 17, 2004	Turkish	Faysal Demir	Turkish manufacturer of Prefabricated housing	Truck driver	Killed by friendly fire in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 19, 2004	Portuguese	Roberto Carlos	Al-Atheer	Telecommunications worker	Killed by a roadside bomb south of Basra	^[63]
June 22, 2004	British	Julian Davies	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^[64]
June 22, 2004	South Korean	Kim Sun-il	Gana General Trading Co.	Supplier	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
June 27, 2004	American	Joseph Arguelles	Readiness Mgmt. Svcs.	Electric power specialist	Killed when transport plane was fired on over Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
July 2, 2004	American	Vern O'Neal Richerson	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Construction foreman	Died in a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany from injuries sustained in a mortar attack in Iraq	^{[citation needed]}
July 9, 2004	Turkish	Names unknown (2 individuals)	Unknown	Truck drivers	Killed in an ambush near Samarra	^{[citation needed]}
July 12, 2004	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb near Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
July 13, 2004	Bulgarian	Georgi Lazov	Bulgarian trucking company	Truck driver	Captured and executed in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
July 17, 2004	Jordanian	Ayid Nassir	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Ramadi	^[65]
July 17, 2004	Turkish	Abdulcelil Bayik	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
July 19, 2004	American	Mike Copley	United Defense Industries	Bradley fighting vehicle maintenance technician	Killed in a mortar attack in Samarra	^{[citation needed]}
July 20, 2004	Russian	Anatoly Korenkov	InterEnergoServis	Power plant technician	Died of wounds from an ambush in a Moscow hospital	^{[citation needed]}
July 22, 2004	Bulgarian	Ivaylo Kepov	Bulgarian trucking company	Truck driver	Captured and executed near Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
July 25, 2004	Jordanian	Marwan Zuheir Al Rusan	Unknown	Businessman	Shot and killed in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
July 28, 2004	Pakistani	Raja Azad, Sajad Naeem	Al Tamimi group	Construction workers	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
August 1, 2004	Turkish	Murat Yuce	Bilintur	Cleaner	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
August 2, 2004	Turkish	Ferit Nural	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
August 4, 2004	Turkish	Osman Alisan	Ulasli Oil Company	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
August 10, 2004	Egyptian	Mohammed Abdel Aal	Unknown	Car mechanic	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
August 11, 2004	American	Kevin Rader	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
August 12, 2004	Indian	Eldho Abraham	Frame Project International	Electrical engineer	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad	^[66]
August 16, 2004	South African	Herman Pretorius	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
August 22, 2004	Indonesian	Fahmi Ahmad	Subcontractor to Siemens	Telecommunications engineer	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
Date Unknown	Turkish	Name unknown	Tikrit bridge repair firm	Construction worker	Killed in an ambush between Tikrit & Kirkuk	^{[citation needed]}
August 23, 2004	Macedonian	Dalibor Lazarevski, Dragan Markovikj, Zoran Naskovski	Soufan Engineering	Construction workers	Captured and executed in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
Date Unknown	Jordanian	Beshir Ahmed	Unknown	Businessman	Killed in a car hijacking between Tikrit & Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
August 24, 2004	American	Jamal Tewfik Salman	Unknown	Translator	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
August 27, 2004	Egyptian	Jawdee Baker	Unknown	Private contractor	Shot and killed in Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
August 30, 2004	Nepali	Prakash Adhikari, Ramesh Khadka, Lalan Singh Koiri, Mangal Bahadur Limbu, Jit Bahadur Thapa Magar, Gyanendra Shrestha, Rajendra Kumar Shrestha, Bodhan Kumar Sah Sudi, Manoj Kumar Thakur, Sanjay Kumar Thakur, Bhekh Bahadur Thapa, Bishnu Hari Thapa	Morning Star Co.	Cooks and cleaners	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
August 30, 2004	Turkish	Majid Mehmet al-Gilam], Yahya Sadr, Name unknown	Unknown	Truck drivers	Captured and executed near Samarra	^{[citation needed]}
September 4, 2004	American	John N. Mallery	MayDay Supply	Project manager	Killed in an ambush in Taji	^[67]
Date Unknown	Egyptian	Nasser Salama	Unknown	Private contractor	Captured and executed near Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
September 10, 2004	American	William Earl Bowers	SEI Group Inc.	Engineer	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
September 14, 2004	Canadian	Andrew Shmakov, Munir Toma	Unknown	Private contractors	Shot 17 times in an ambush (initially reported as a car bomb)	^{[citation needed]}
September 14, 2004	American	Todd Engstrom	EOD Technology Inc.	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Balad, Iraq	^{[citation needed]}
September 16, 2004	American	Eugene Armstrong	Gulf Services Co.	Engineer	Captured in Baghdad, executed on September 20	^{[citation needed]}
September 16, 2004	American	Jack Hensley	Gulf Services Co.	Engineer	Captured in Baghdad, executed on September 21	^{[citation needed]}
September 16, 2004	British	Kenneth Bigley	Gulf Services Co.	Engineer	Captured in Baghdad, executed on October 7	^{[citation needed]}
September 21, 2004	Turkish	Akar Besir	Unknown	Unknown	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
September 28, 2004	American	Roger Moffett	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb	^{[citation needed]}
September 29, 2004	British	Iain Hunter	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed in a vehicle accident in Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
September 27, 2004	British	Alan Wimpenny	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb near Samarra	^[68]
October 4, 2004	South African	Johann Hattingh, Gavin Holtzhausen	Unknown	Unknown	Killed and wounded by a suicide car-bomber in Baghdad; Holtzhausen later died	^{[citation needed]}
October 11, 2004	British	Paul Chadwick	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Accidentally shot himself in Kirkuk	^[69]
October 11, 2004	British	Name unknown	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a sniper in Kirkuk	^{[citation needed]}
October 11, 2004	Turkish	Maher Kemal	Unknown	Truck driver	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
October 12, 2004	South African	Johan Botha, Louis Campher	Omega Risk Solutions	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush south of Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
October 14, 2004	American	Eric Miner, Steve Osborne, John Pinsonneault, Ferdinand Ibabao	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
October 14, 2004	Turkish	Ramazan Elbu	Unknown	Truck driver	Captured and executed	^{[citation needed]}
October 19, 2004	American	Felipe E. Lugo III	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Labor foreman	Killed in a mortar attack near Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
October 23, 2004	Croatian	Dalibor Burazović	Eurodelta d.o.o.	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
October 23, 2004	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
October 27, 2004	American	Travis Schnoor	Custer Battl]	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
October 29, 2004	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Mosul	^[70]
November 2, 2004	American	Radim Sadeq Mohammed Sadeq	Unknown	Businessman	Captured in Baghdad, still missing and presumed dead	^{[citation needed]}
November 3, 2004	American	Jeffery Serrett	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Medic	Killed in an attack on a prison in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
November 3, 2004	British	John Barker	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^[71]
November 5, 2004	Nepali	Tikaram Gurung	Gorkha Manpower Company	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
November 7, 2004	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Samarra	^{[citation needed]}
November 7, 2004	British, South African	Shaun Husband, Johan Terry	Olive Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a roadside bomb in Al Zubayr, near Basra	^{[citation needed]}
November 8–16, 2004	British	Name unknown	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Killed during the Battle of Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
November 8–16, 2004	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed during the Battle of Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
November 9, 2004	American	Aaron Iversen, David Randolph	EOD Technology Inc.	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush between Baghdad and Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
November 10, 2004	American	Douglas S.Thomas	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by an IED in a convoy from Balad, Iraq to Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
November 11, 2004	American	Mike Tatar	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed with friendly fire en route to Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
November 14, 2004	American	Wolf Weis	Unknown	Private contractor	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
November 16, 2004	South Korean	Jung Myeong-nam	Taehwa Electric Co.	Private contractor	Killed in an accident in Erbil	^{[citation needed]}
November, 2004	South African	Jacques Oosthuize	Erinys Iraq	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush between Tikrit and Mosul	^[72]
November 25, 2004	Nepali	Names unknown (4 individuals)	Global Risk Strategies Limited	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a mortar attack in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
November 30, 2004	Honduran	José Mauricio Mena Puerto	DynCorp International	Medic	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
December 8, 2004	American	Dale Stoffel, Joseph Wemple	CLI USA	Construction contractors	Shot and killed near an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad	^[73]
December 15, 2004	Italian	Salvatore Santoro	Unknown	Aid worker	Shot and killed at an insurgent checkpoint outside Ramadi	^[74]
December 20, 2004	Turkish	Saban Ozsagir	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
December 21, 2004	American	Leslie W. Davis, Brett A.Hunter, Allen Smith, Anthony M. Stramiello Jr.	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Construction foremen and technicians	Killed by a suicide bomber in Mosul	^{[citation needed]}

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
January 3, 2005	British	John Dolman, Nick Pear, John Eardley	Kroll Security International, IPA Energy and Water Consulting	Private Military Contractors, Engineer	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
January 3, 2005	American	Tracy Hushin	BearingPoint Inc.	Financial manager	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
January 16, 2005	American	Name unknown	Steele Foundation	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush north of Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
January 16, 2005	Egyptian	Ibrahim Mohammed Ismail	Unknown	Truck driver	Found dead, body dumped in a street in Ramadi	^{[citation needed]}
January 19, 2005	British	Andrew Whyte	Janusian Security Risk Mgmt.	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush south of Baiji	^[75]
February 8, 2005	Croatian	Ivan Pavčević	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
February 24, 2005	American	Jimmy A.Riddle, Brian J.Wagoner	Special Operations Consulting-Security Mgmt. Group Inc.	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a roadside bomb in Ashraf	^[76]
March 12, 2005	American	Jim Cantrell, Bruce Durr	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a roadside bomb in Hillah	^[77]^[78]^[79]
March 12, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb near Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
March 20, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush north of Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
March 25, 2005	American	Eugene Hyatt	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Carpenter foreman	Killed in an accident	^[80]
April 1, 2005	American	Alfred Habelman	California-based construction company	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
April 11, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
April 16, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb south of Mosul	^{[citation needed]}
April 18, 2005	Filipino	Rey Torres	Qatar International Trading Company	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
April 20, 2005	American, Australian, Canadian	James Hunt, Chris Ahmelman, Stefan Surette	Edinburgh Risk Inc.	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^[81]
April 20, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
April 21, 2005	American	Robert Jason Gore, Stephen Matthew McGovern, Jason Obert, David Patterson, Luke Adam Petrik, Eric Smith	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near Tarmiya	^{[citation needed]}
April 21, 2005	Bulgarian	Stoyan Anchev, Lyubomir Kostov, Georgi Naydenov	Bulgarian firm	Helicopter pilots	Killed when their Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near Tarmiya	^[82]
April 21, 2005	Fijian	Jim Atalifo, Timoci Lalaqila	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed when their Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near Tarmiya	^{[citation needed]}
April 21, 2005	American	Curtis Hundley	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb near Ramadi	^[83]
April 21, 2005	British	Alan Parkin	Aegis Defence Services	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad	^[84]
May 1, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush north of Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
May 3, 2005	Turkish	Salih Gulbol	Eskiocaklar	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Baghdad	^[85]
May 7, 2005	American	Brandon Thomas, Todd Venette	CTU Consulting	Private Military Contractors	Killed by a car bomb in Baghdad	^[86]
May 9, 2005	South African	Names unknown (4 individuals)	Hart Security Company	Private Military Contractors	Killed in an ambush near Hit	^{[citation needed]}
May 9, 2005	Japanese	Akihiko Saito	Hart Security Company	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush near Hit	^{[citation needed]}
May 10, 2005	American	Thomas W.Jaichner	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a sniper in Ramadi	^[87]
May 12, 2005	American	Reuben Ray Miller	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb	^[88]
May 22, 2005	Jordanian	Al-Sanie	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush	^{[citation needed]}
May 28, 2005	Lebanese	Name unknown	Unknown	Interpreter	Killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
June 2, 2005	Turkish	Salih Gulbol	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Baiji	^[89]
June 7, 2005	South African	Séan Ronald Laver	Hart Security Company	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb in Habbaniyah	^{[citation needed]}
June 9, 2005	Turkish	Yusuf Akar	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush in Ramadi	^{[citation needed]}
June 15, 2005	Bosnian	Ljubiša Aleksić	Lloyd-Owen International	Private Military Contractor	Killed in an ambush 60 km south of Baghdad	^[90]
June 21, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush east of Balad	^{[citation needed]}
June 27, 2005	American	Deborah Dawn Klecker	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb east of Baghdad	^[91]
July 1, 2005	Turkish	Name unknown	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed in an ambush near Baiji	^{[citation needed]}
September 2, 2005	American	Leon "Vince" Kimbrell	DynCorp International	Unknown	Killed by a shaped charge IED near the Al-Sadeer Compound in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
September 3, 2005	American	Ron Wiebe	Unknown	Unknown	Killed en route from Tikrit to Baghdad	^[92]
September 3, 2005	British	Jim Martin	Unknown	Unknown	Killed en route from Tikrit to Baghdad	^[93]
September 20, 2005	American	Keven Dagit, Sascha Grenner-Case, Christopher Lem, Name unknown	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Truck drivers	Ambushed and massacred in Dhuluiya, bodies mutilated	^[94]
November 12, 2005	Sudanese	Name unknown	Unknown	Private contractor	Killed in an attack on the Omani embassy in Baghdad	^[95]
November 14, 2005	South African	Naas Du Preez, Johannes Potgieter	DynCorp International	Unknown	Killed by a roadside bomb on Haifa Street, Baghdad	^[96]
November 17, 2005	South African	"Tabs" from 23 Battalion	Unknown	Unknown	Died of wounds from a roadside bomb on Haifa Street, Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
December 22, 2005	American	Kyle Kaszynski	Croll Management	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad	^[97]
December 22, 2005	South African	Jan Strauss	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad	^[98]

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
January 5, 2006	Indian	Sibi Kora	Unknown	Truck driver	Killed by a roadside bomb	^[99]
May 7, 2006	British	Karl Saville	Danubia Global	Security contractor	Killed in Baghdad	^[100]
May, 2006	South African	Richard Andrew Kolver	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad	^[101]
June 8, 2006	Australian	Wayne Schulz	ArmorGroup	Unknown	Killed when his armoured vehicle was destroyed by an explosive device	^[102]
June 11, 2006	British	Kenneth Clarke	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by a roadside bomb in Tikrit	^[103]
June 14, 2006	Swedish	Name unknown	Genric Ltd.	Security contractor	Killed by an explosive device	^[104]
July 15, 2006	Syrian	Salih Fawzi al-Madani	Unknown	Private contractor	Captured in Baghdad, body found mutilated	^[105]
August 19, 2006	South African	Edmund Bruwer, Brenton Gray	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by a roadside bomb	^[106]
September 17, 2006	American	Darrell Leroy Wetherbee	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a sniper in Hawija	^[107]
October 2, 2006	Turkish	Nuri Akceren, Zeki Kilicwho	Unknown	Truck drivers	Killed in an ambush near Mosul	^[108]
October 30, 2006	South African	Morne Pieters	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by a roadside bomb in Basra while leading a convoy	^[109]

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
January 7, 2007	American	Glenda Oliver Butts	Two Rivers Consultants	Construction consultant	Died of natural causes	^[110]
January 9, 2007	Moldavian	Names unknown (5 individuals)	Unknown	Pilots	Killed in an aircraft crash in Balad	^[111]
January 9, 2007	Turkish	Names unknown (28 individuals)	Unknown	Construction workers	Killed in an aircraft crash in Balad	^[112]
January 17, 2007	Croatian	Željko Both	Unity Resources Group	Security contractor	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^[113]
January 17, 2007	Hungarian	Janos Nemeth	Unity Resources Group	Unknown	Killed in an ambush in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
January 23, 2007	American	Steve Gernet, Ron Johnson, Art Laguna, Shane Stanfield, Casey Casavant	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed by insurgents during a rescue operation in Eastern Baghdad	^[114]
February, 2007	American	Donald E. Tolfree Jr.	KBR, Inc.	Truck driver	Killed at Camp Anaconda	^[115]
February 15, 2007	South African	Glen Joyce	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by an IED in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
February 18, 2007	American	Don Schneider	Unknown	Mail truck driver	Killed by two 155mm IEDs en route from Kuwait to Camp Cedar	^{[citation needed]}
March 2007	American	Carolyn Edwards	KBR, Inc.	Logistics coordinator	Killed in Baghdad's Green Zone	^[116]
April 5, 2007	Kuwaiti	Name unknown	Unknown	Translator	Killed in an ambush in Basra	^[117]
April 15, 2007	Iranian	Names unknown (5 individuals)	Unknown	Truck drivers	Killed in an ambush in Baqubah	^[118]
June 12, 2007	American	Michael Wayne Butler	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Tikrit	^{[citation needed]}
July 15, 2007	Australian	Brendan Hurst, Justin Saint	BLP International	Unknown	Killed by a rocket-propelled grenade in an ambush	^[119]
August 28, 2007	South African	Frans Robert Brand	ArmorGroup	Security specialist	Killed by an IED	^[120]
October 10, 2007	American	Michael Doheny, Micah Shaw, Steve Evrard	SOC-LLC	Private Military Contractors	Killed by an EFP near Al Kut	^{[citation needed]}

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Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
February 18, 2008	Unknown	M. Salih, S. Chalil, S. R. Arachchige	Unknown	Unknown	Killed during a rocket attack on Contingency Operating Base Basra	^{[citation needed]}
March 16, 2008	British	Liam Carmichael	Unknown	Unknown	Killed when thrown from vehicle after a tire blowout in Sulaymaniyah	^[121]
June 12, 2008	British	Darryl Fern	Aegis Defence Services	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb	^{[citation needed]}
June 13, 2008	South African	Desmond Milnes	Unknown	Unknown	Died from wounds sustained in the same attack as Darryl Fern	^{[citation needed]}
July 6, 2008	American	Justin English	WSI	Firefighter	Killed when his convoy hit an IED	^{[citation needed]}
November 13, 2008	Russian	Names unknown (3 individuals)	Falcon Aviation Group	Cargo plane operators	Killed when their Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed near Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
November 13, 2008	Ukrainian	Names unknown (2 individuals)	Falcon Aviation Group	Cargo plane operators	Killed when their Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed near Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
November 13, 2008	Belarusian	Name unknown	Falcon Aviation Group	Cargo plane operators	Killed when their Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed near Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}
November 13, 2008	Indian	Jaychandran Appukutten	Falcon Aviation Group	Cargo plane operators	Killed when their Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed near Fallujah	^{[citation needed]}

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
March 4, 2009	American	Justin Pope	DynCorp International	Private Military Contractor	Died of an accidental gunshot wound	^[122]
March 9, 2009	Pakistani	Name unknown	Unknown	Private contractor	Killed by a Katyusha rocket launcher in Basra	^[123]
March 26, 2009	Hungarian	Tibor Bogdan	Unknown	Unknown	Killed by a U.S. soldier near Camp Taji	^[124]
May 15, 2009	British	Name unknown	Unknown	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb in Hillah	^[125]
May 22, 2009	American	Jim Kitterman	Janus Construction	Engineer	Stabbed and killed by fellow contractors in the Green Zone in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
May 22, 2009	American	Larry Eugene Young	Corporate Training Unlimited	Private Military Contractor	Killed in a mortar attack on the Green Zone in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
May 25, 2009	American	Terrance "Terry" Barnich, Dr. Maged Hussein	Iraq Transition Assistance Office	Unknown	Killed by an IED outside Fallujah	^[126]
June 20, 2009	British	Jason Creswell, Jason Swindlehurst	GardaWorld	Private Military Contractors	Bodies recovered in Baghdad, captured on May 27, 2007	^{[citation needed]}
July 17, 2009	American	William F. Hinchman, Name unknown	Blackwater Security	Private Military Contractors	Killed when their helicopter crashed in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
July 29, 2009	British	Alec MacLachlan, Alan McMenemy	GardaWorld	Private Military Contractors	Bodies recovered in Baghdad, captured on May 27, 2007	^{[citation needed]}
August 9, 2009	Australian	Darren Hoare	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a fellow contractor in the Green Zone in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
August 9, 2009	British	Paul McGuigan	ArmorGroup	Private Military Contractor	Killed by a fellow contractor in the Green Zone in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
August 12, 2009	American	Kenneth Rose	Unknown	Private contractor	Killed by a roadside bomb in Fallujah	^[127]
September 1, 2009	American	Adam Hermanson	Triple Canopy	Private Military Contractor	Electrocuted in Baghdad	^{[citation needed]}
September 13, 2009	American	Lucas "Trent" Vinson	Kellogg, Brown & Root	Private contractor	Killed by a U.S. soldier at Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit	^[128]

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
March 10, 2010	British	Robbie Napier	Aegis Security	Security contractor	Died after an IED explosion	^[129]
May 19, 2010	British	Nic Crouch	Aegis Security	Security contractor	Killed by a suicide car bomber	^[130]^[131]
July 22, 2010	Peruvian	Juan Carlos Salazar Rodriguez	Unknown	Security guard	Killed in a rocket attack	^[132]
July 22, 2010	Ugandan	Unknown	Unknown	Security guard	Killed in a rocket attack	^[133]
July 22, 2010	Ugandan	Unknown	Unknown	Security guard	Killed in a rocket attack	^[134]
September 14, 2010	British	Karl Bowen	Unknown	Security contractor	Killed in a car accident	^[135]
October 4, 2010	American	Michael Behr	Unknown	Contractor	Unknown	^[136]

Date	Nationality	Name	Company	Role	Cause of Death	Ref.
March 16, 2011	American	Johnnie Lee Smith	KBR, Inc.	Truck driver	Died from burn injuries sustained in a truck accident	^[137]
June 23, 2011	American	Stephen Everhart	USAID	International development and finance expert	Killed in a convoy ambush	^[2]

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