I will try to find you exact numbers, but here's a start:
smh.com.au
And I will try to find you a link to the total tonnage of bombings- it's been amazing, even (I would think) from a conservative perspective.
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In the 10 years of "peace" since February 1991, an additional 400 tons of explosives have been dropped on Iraq; 300 people have been killed and many hundreds wounded. The US and United Kingdom, with the participation of France, imposed a no-fly zone over the northern region of the country, ostensibly to protect the Kurds. This newly found humanitarian concern didn't extend to the Kurds residing on the Turkish side of the border. The next year, another no-fly zone was imposed in the south, reputedly to protect Shiite settlements, effectively dividing the country into three parts. By 1998, the French had withdrawn from both zones, but US and British air attacks on military and civilian targets have continued almost on a daily basis, including strafing raids against Iraqi agricultural developments. Baghdad's repeated protests to the UN have gone unheeded. Since 1998, three members of the Security Council-Russia, China, and France-and various non-permanent members have condemned the raids as illegal and unauthorized by the Security Council.
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