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16, 273 Deaths Reported in Iraq in 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Government officials reported that 16,273 Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police died violent deaths in 2006, a figure larger than an independent Associated Press count for the year by more than 2,500. The tabulation by the Iraqi ministries of Health, Defense and Interior, showed that 14,298 civilians, 1,348 police and 627 soldiers were killed in the violence that raged in the country last year.

The Associated Press accounting, gleaned from daily news reports from Baghdad, arrived at a total of 13,738 deaths. The United Nations has said as many as 100 Iraqis die violently each day, which translates into 36,500 deaths annually.
You can accept any of the three published figures: 13,000, 16,000, 36,000. Multiply by three and somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians, soldiers and police have died since the invasion. These have died from all violent causes, and let's do remember the jihadis, sectarians and Ba'athists who've killed the greater number of people. That's 30 to 100 per day in a country of 24 million people.

Not 600,000, as the Lancet claimed in a terribly shoddy article from October. Not the 600,000 as claimed by Johns Hopkins 'investigator' Gilbert Burnham, known for his far-left views and, let's say, unimpressive methodologies. Dr. Burnham won't be held accountable for this paper; if anything he'll be praised for getting a 'high-impact' publication. Shame.

Posted by: Steve White 2007-01-02
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