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To: aladin who wrote (79662)	3/5/2003 11:17:50 AM
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Distracting lies muddy the ground before the missiles start flying Tony Horwitz writes in his article: smh.com.au Despite heavy bombing in 1991, the only site of mass civilian casualties was a shelter in Baghdad where 400 Iraqis died. The total estimates of civilian casualties in the 1991 Gulf War are much higher. Here's a quote from the following report: Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq - Report medact.org An estimated 110,000 Iraqi civilians died in 1991 from the health effects of the war, bringing the total number of Iraqis who died as a direct consequence of the GulfWar to around 205,000 (Arkin, Durrant and Cherni 1991, Hoskins 1997). Two of the references: Hoskins, Eric (1997) Public health and the Persian Gulf War. In Levy, Barry and Sidel, Victor (eds) War and Public Health, Oxford University Press, New York. UN (1991) Report to the secretary-general on humanitarian needs in Kuwait and Iraq in the immediate post-crisis environment by a mission led by Mr Martti Ahtisaari, under secretary general for administration and management (Ahtisaari report). United Nations, March 28. In 1991 a Middle East analyst of the US Census Bureau's international division, Mrs. Beth Osborne Daponte, tried to estimate the casualties using established demographic methods. She was threatened to be fired by the Census Bureau. Here are two newspaper articles: War's toll: 158,000 Iraqis and a researcher's position philly.com What about the death toll? boston.com In a 1993 paper Daponte arrives at the conclusion: According to the methods described in this paper, the number of Iraqis who died in 1991 from effects of the Gulf war or postwar turmoil approximates 205,500. ippnw.org