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1.2m people might have died in Iraq

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This is Bush (and allies) 'victory' in Iraq:

[Via: BBC]
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Civilian toll

Sunday's violence followed the publication of a survey of Iraqis which suggested that up to 1.2m people might have died because of the conflict in Iraq.

A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of 1,461 Iraqi adults how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes.

The results lend weight to a 2006 survey of Iraqi households published by the Lancet, which suggested that about 655,000 Iraqi deaths were "a consequence of the war".

However, these estimates are both far higher than the running total of reported civilian deaths maintained by the campaign group Iraq Body Count which puts the figure at between 71,000 and 78,000.

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Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Sunday, October 7, 2007, at 9:18 pm. Filed under Iraq, USA, War Crimes. Tagged , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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  1. Jill | October 8, 2007 at 1:05 am | Permalink

    after starving over half a million Iraqis with the US/UK-imposed sanctions, and after the genocide in Iraq since the US/UK invasion, I doubt many people would view with sympathies any loss of anglo-zionist lives.

    when considering Al-Qaeda and all the radical groups combined have killed only a small tiny fraction of what the anglo-zionists have killed in Iraq and Palestine and Lebanon, i am afraid even al-Qaeda will start to look like legitimate resistance to many.

    do you blame people for no longer knowing who is the most dangerous terrorist.

  2. Haitham | October 9, 2007 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

    I wont be surprised if some animals care organization in the West makes more fuss in the news about killing animals in Iraq!!!