31.   The official said there were reports of U.S. casualties from the fighting.

32.   The Rockville, Md., lab also is identifying civilian casualties from the Pentagon and will soon be used for passengers of the hijacked jet that crashed in Pennsylvania.

33.   The U.S. military suffered its first casualty from enemy fire in Afghanistan Friday when a soldier was killed in a gun fight.

34.   The US troops are logistics specialists, intelligence officers, and pilots and medics for rescue missions to retrieve any American casualties from inside Afghanistan.

35.   The widely varying claims of damage and casualties from both sides were impossible to verify independently.

36.   The United States is trying to do so, although the civilian casualties from the bombing are making the effort more difficult, he said.

37.   There were fewer casualties from the confrontation, which also included short-lived gun battles, than from similar ones last week.

38.   There is no official estimate on the number of civilians who have died, although casualties from bombing raids have been heavy.

39.   There is no way to achieve an accurate reckoning of the number of civilian casualties from the American operation.

40.   There was no immediate word on casualties from the new Croatian advance.