Tuesday, July 19, 2005

I hope 'those people' over there are sorry for what they didn't do. I bet they'll never not do that again. Man I feel safe now. We showed them what we're made of...

From today's GUARDIAN:

25,000 civilians killed since Iraq invasion, says report
Simon Jeffery
Tuesday July 19, 2005

The number of Iraqi civilians who met violent deaths in the two years after the US-led invasion was today put at 24,865 by an independent research team.
The figures, compiled from Iraqi and international media reports, found US and coalition military forces were responsible for 37% of the deaths, with anti-occupation forces and insurgents responsible for 9%. A further 36% were blamed on criminal violence.
Civilian deaths attributed to US and coalition military forces peaked in the invasion period from March to May 2003 - which accounts for 30% of all civilian deaths in the two-year period - but the longer-term trend has been for increasing numbers to die at the hands of insurgents...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1531742,00.html?gusrc=rss
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