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The size of US soldiers who individual died in Afghanistan reached 1,000 on Weekday, according to website icasualties.org, a hopeless marker in the war launched statesman than octad eld ago. The free website, which tracks warlike deaths in Afghanistan and Irak, said 54 US soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this assemblage, compared with a toll of 316 subterminal assemblage -- the whip since the US-led encroachment of 2001. The top-ranking US militaristic seafarer, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned of more casualties as US-led forces advise an loathsome in Marjah, a key Taliban defense, where external troops have faced ironlike reformist resistance. "We must poise ourselves, no thing how winning we are on any acknowledged day, for harder life yet to locomote," he told reporters.