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Study estimates 655 000 excess Iraqi deaths since start of war
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts, The Lancet
An estimated 655 000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in a non-conflict situation, according to an Article. There is also an accompanying Comment by Richard Horton…
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2.5 percent of Iraqi’s population have died as a consequence of the war.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
As many as 654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003 than would have been expected under pre-war conditions, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad (…) According to the researchers, the overall rate of mortality in Iraq since March 2003 is 13.3 deaths ! per 1,000 persons per year compared to 5.5 deaths per 1,000 persons per year prior to March 2003. This amounts to about 2.5 percent of Iraqi’s population having died as a consequence of the war. To put the 654,000 deaths in context with other conflicts, the authors note that during the Vietnam War an estimated 3 million civilians died overall; the Congo conflict was responsible for 3.8 million deaths; and recent estimates are that 200,000 have died in Darfur over the past 31 months…
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The Mushroom Cloud over the U.N.
MIKE WHITNEY
The Bush administration has repeatedly rejected North Korea’s appeals for a “non-aggression” pact. Bush believes that he has the inherent right to attack whomever he chooses if it is in the national interest, which is to say, if it furthers his ambitions for global domination. Bush has openly supported “regime change” in North Korea and placed the country on his axis of evil list. On a personal level, Bush stated that he “loathes” Kim Jung-il and has referred to him a! s “a pygmy”. These provocations have been duly noted in North Korea. Kim knows that he’s a top candidate for a preemptive attack unless he develops a credible deterrent. Any sane person would draw the same conclusion even if they hadn’t been humiliated in public as “evil”. That’s why Kim has anticipated the worst and made plans to defend himself; that’s the basic message behind Sunday’s nuclear blast. Kim’s weapons program is the logical upshot of Bush’s belligerence. If there was no threat, there would have been no explosion. ..
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655,000
Robert Dreyfuss
The latest study in the Lancet about Iraqi deaths is staggering: they calculate that 655,000 Iraqis have died since March 2003, about 500 per day since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Critics will quibble about the methodology used in the study (…) I can’t resist pointing out that even Saddam Hussein’s worst detractors estimate that 300,000 Iraqis died during his reign. I happen to believe that that number is wildly inflated, and certainly it isn’t based on any sort of research. It’s just a n! umber promoted (before the invasion in 2003) to demonize Saddam. But even if it’s true, George Bush has surpassed in three bloody years what took Saddam three decades in power to accumulate…
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GI Special 4J12: Roll Call – October 12, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Gen. James L. Jones, once the Marine Corps’ top general, did not deny reports in a new book that he told a colleague Iraq was a debacle and that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had emasculated the service chiefs.
But Jones, NATO’s top commander and headed toward retirement, said Wednesday he will not join the ranks of other retired military officers who say Rumsfeld should be ousted. Rumsfeld has been under fire by critics, including several former generals, who say he has run roughshod over the Pentagon’s uniformed leadership.
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The Legacy of the Iraqi War Hawks
William Hughes, thepeoplesvoice.org
…As of today’s date, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, around 654,000 Iraqis have been killed in the war. When a spokesman for the Multi-National Forces in Iraq was asked to comment on the shocking report, he said: “It’s really a government of Iraq issue.” (3) Iraq, a nation of 26 million souls, no longer officially exists! It is now ripe for a cruel partition, with seizure of its enormous oil resources the number one objective of the c! unning predators. With respect to the endemic carnage in Iraq, try this one on for comparison purposes: Recently, a demented milk-truck driver ran amuck in Nickel Mines, PA, an Amish community set in pastoral Lancaster County and executed five innocent children. Americans were duly shocked, as they should have been. It was front page news for weeks. Yet, every day, there are multiple Nickel Mines-like slaughters going on in Iraq. Most people in this country hardly notice them, nor do they wish to acknowledge that it was their government that unlawfully launched the Iraqi War which created these blood stained killing fields. If reported at all, these ghastly murders are presented as sound bites on the TV screen, that news readers, like Katie Couric, will be sure not to mention in any kind of critical context or with any meaningful analysis. To do so would point the finger of moral culpability for these evils deeds back at the hawkish wirepullers in Washington, D.C…
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Data Suggests Vast Costs Loom in Disability Claims
Scott Shane, The New York Times
Nearly one in five soldiers leaving the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has been at least partly disabled as a result of service, according to documents of the Department of Veterans Affairs obtained by a Washington research group. The number of veterans granted disability compensation, more than 100,000 to date, suggests that taxpayers have only begun to pay the long-term financial cost of the two conflicts. About 5! 67,000 of the 1.5 million American troops who have served so far have been discharged…
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Bush: Iraqis Are Willing To ‘Tolerate’ This ‘Level Of Violence’
Think Progress
Today in his press conference, President Bush applauded the courage of Iraqis, stating that he is “amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to — you know, that there’s a level of violence that they tolerate.” (…) In reality, 890,000 Iraqis have moved to Jordan, Iran and Syria since Hussein’s fall and more than 300,000 have fled to other parts of Iraq to escape the violence. Iraqis aren’t “toleratin! g” the violence. They’re just trying to survive…
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WAR NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006
Today in Iraq
In the mainly Sunni Seleikh neighborhood of northern Baghdad, a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding seven. Two roadside bombs targeting a police patrol exploded in quick succession in Ghadeer district, eastern Baghdad, wounding eight people, including three policemen. A mortar round fired by militiamen caused a fire at an ammunition dump inside a U.S. military base in southern Baghdad, which caused! a series of explosions that rocked the capital on Tuesday night. No casualties were reported. Two car bombs detonated almost simultaneously near the Ministry of Labour in the northeast of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding 12 more. A booby-trapped vehicle exploded in the southeast of the city, killing two bystanders and wounding 22 people, including eight policemen. A car bombing in the primarily Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in north Baghdad killed four persons and wounded nine…
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Tasfiya-t-al-Iraq
Truth About Iraqis
When Iraqi or Arab friends of mine ask me what is happening in Iraqi, I reply with one word – tasfiya. Annhiliation, eradication, genocide of the Iraqi people. “The mortality rate before the American invasion was about 5.5 people per 1,000 per year, the study found. That rate rose to 19.8 deaths per 1,000 people in the year ending in June.” (NY TIMES) … A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across! Iraq since the 2003 American invasion, the highest estimate ever for the toll of the war here … Keep in mind, almost all the figures you read about in the media focus on Baghdad ONLY. The one above takes “…across Iraq” into account…
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Italian probe: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip
Meron Rapaport – Haaret via The Truth Seeker
An investigative report to be aired on Italian television Wednesday raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns. The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military, known as DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small! radius. The Italian report is based on the eyewitness accounts of medical doctors in the Strip, as well as tests carried out in an Italian laboratory…
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Northern Korea’s Ace
Kim Petersen, www.dissidentvoice.org
When the military imperialists of the United States split up a homeland, occupied the southern half, and engaged in torture, rapes, and a massive slaughter of the civilian population; when they used biological and chemical weapons; when their commanders appealed to use nuclear weapons; then is it any wonder that the much maligned communist regime of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) would develop nuclear weapons to defend itself and its cit! izenry? The western corporate media would seem to think so…
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A re-run of the Lebanon war in Palestine?
Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada
There are ominous signs that the long-contemplated plan to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas-led Palestinian Authority cabinet is about to enter its most dangerous phase: a political coup, supported by local militias, with foreign and regional backing. This could ignite serious intra-Palestinian violence. With Iraq providing a dreadful warning of how foreign occupation can foster civil bloodshed, everything ! must be done to expose and thwart this dangerous conspiracy. The head of Palestinian Authority intelligence, and Fatah militia leader, Tawfiq Tirawi, said in an interview with the Sunday Times on 8 October, “We are already at the beginning of a civil war, no doubt about it. They (Hamas) are accumulating weapons and a full-scale civil war can break out at any moment.” The paper cited Palestinian sources saying that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas “has notified the US, Jordan and Egypt that he is preparing to take action against Hamas.”…
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U.S. Army plans for current Iraq troop level to 2010
Andrew Gray
The U.S. Army is planning on the basis that it may have to maintain current troop levels in Iraq until at least 2010, its top general said on Wednesday. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker said the United States was in a tough fight with insurgents in Iraq but his plans did not mean it would necessarily need to keep the present level of 15 combat brigades there for the next four years. Including those brigades, numbering about 3,500-4,000 sold! iers each, the United States has about 141,000 troops in Iraq…
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Iraq is sold
Roads to Iraq
What a shame, Iraq is sold: The northern region to Israel, Southern provinces to Iran, and I bet the middle will be Jordan’s share. The Iraqi parliament has approved a law allowing provinces to merge into regions which would enjoy a measure of autonomy. The law is controversial as many Sunni Muslims and others fear it would lead to the country’s partition.
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More on the Blast this Morning …… (Update Video Available)
Roads to Iraq
This morning US newspapers reported that fire erupted in US ammo dump in Al-Rashid military base, while every single Iraqi/Arab newspaper assured that it a mortars attack on the base erupted the fire. Elaph reported that an Iraqi military spokesman appeared on TV in his attempt to calm the Iraqis he said “Don’t worry the explosions are in an American military base”. Islammemo reported that from 1,00 O’clock this morning until 7,30 at least n! ine cargo airplanes landed in Habanya Airbase – West Iraq, carrying explosions Iraqi and American casualties among them at least 90 Iraq soldiers and that is confirmed by Doctor Omar Abdullah Al-Rawi from Ramadi hospital…
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Shiaa Militias collude with Iraqi Police to kidnap Brigadier Imad Al-Juburi, a graduate of St. Hurst and the Commander of Baghdad’s Military College
Iraqi League Correspondent in Baghdad
…Life in Baghdad has become very dangerous, killing and kidnapping is everywhere, the police is penetrated heavily by Al-Mahdi Army everywhere. Baghdad, the bride that was the most beautiful, has become a forest of fear, panic and death. Oh Baghdad, you have to rely only on God for your salvation, as the government is completel! y incapable and good people can do nothing. Baghdad is going through a slow death…
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Forged Leaflets Dropped at Shiaat Houses Demanding the Occupants to Leave
Iraqi League Correspondent in al-Ghazaliya
Regarding a threat received by a Shiite family living in the area of al-Ghazaliya, elements of the resistance confirmed through the section of contributions to the above article that this leaflet, which was dropped at the house of a family with no ties to the resistance. It was definitely forged in order to sanctify the sectarian situation ignited by the militias…
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The High Cost of Order Out of Chaos in Iraq
Kurt Nimmo
Amazingly, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, is reporting this morning that “American and Iraqi epidemiologists [estimate] that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred… It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian ! deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.” Add to this the 1.5 million killed as a result of the United Nations imposed (at the behest of the United States and Britain) sanctions—more than 500,000 of them children—and you have a total working its way toward the 3,500,000 killed in Southeast Asia from 1960 to 1973…
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Study: Between 127,000 ? 238,000 Iraqis Killed by US Military
Killing Occupation
DAVE LINDORFF
A just released study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, published in the current issue of the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, reports that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has led to the deaths of between 426,000 and 794,000 Iraqis. This is a substantial increase over the 100,000 dead that the same research group found through 2004, based upon a smaller survey, and it represe! nts an astonishing 2.5 percent of the country’s total population. The grim news was widely—though not universally—reported in the U.S. media (my local paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked it out), but few news organizations reported the most disturbing finding of the study, which was that 31 percent of those killed were actually slain by U.S. and “coalition” forces (actually by U.S. forces, since most of the other foreign forces working with the U.S., with the exception of the British, have not played combat roles, and even the British have largely operated in the south where fighting has been much less severe)…
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Aura of fear and death stalks Iraq
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian
…Some Sunni families have stopped going to Baghdad’s morgue, which is in an area controlled by Shia militias, who are responsible for the death squads. The families of two recently murdered Sunni soldiers in a largely Shia battalion of the Iraqi army, their colonel said, were followed to the morgue and attacked. Funerals have also been targeted. Death follows death. Hospitals have been used for holding and torturing the disappeared. The sound of ki! lling has become routine. No one pays attention to the morning explosions until the reports come in – the numbers of the dead and where. Baghdadis soon develop an ear for these attacks. They can distinguish between the sound of improvised explosive devices buried in the road, and the sound of mortars and car bombs. These are now commonplace. The conversation stoppers are the ingenious and brazen: the secondary and tertiary bombs left to kill the rescue workers; the abductions in broad daylight by men in police uniforms from shops and factories, while their colleagues try to hide from the lethal sweep…
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