[lit-ideas] the latest body count
- From: Eric Yost <Mr.Eric.Yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:55:52 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/international/middleeast/20casualties.html?oref=login
New York Times [extract] on the latest body count:
Michael E. O'Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the
Brookings Institution who compiles a statistical abstract of Iraq to
track its progress, or lack of it, under the occupation, said the Iraq
Body Count figures were within the realm of reason. "We've used their
data before," he said. "It's probably not too far off, and it's
certainly a more serious work than the Lancet report."
According to the new report, American fire accounted for the greatest
loss of life in Iraq, about 9,270 civilians, or 37.3 percent of the
total.....Most of those fatalities came during the war, the report stated.
The crime wave that has overcome Iraq since the Saddam Hussein
government fell was the second leading cause of death, accounting for
almost 35.9 percent of the deaths, or 8,935, the report said.
[Lit-ideas readers will remember that SH opened the Iraqi prisons just
before his regime collapsed.]
In comparison, insurgent attacks specifically against American-led
multinational forces caused only 9.5 percent of the deaths, or 2,353,
while attacks by terrorists, whom the authors call "unknown agents,"
amounted to 11.0 percent of the civilian dead, or 2,731, the report said.
It is not clear how the report differentiated between insurgents and
terrorists. Iraq Body Count's calculations show the death toll from such
violence continuing to rise.
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