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To: FaultLine who wrote (148171)	10/19/2004 2:32:03 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 281500

I'm a recidivist.....jail time is like a vacation....

To: FaultLine who wrote (148171)	10/29/2004 10:41:06 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

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To: FaultLine who wrote (148171)	10/29/2004 11:12:29 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Britain pledges to 'seriously' study report of 100,000 Iraqi deaths 2 hours, 10 minutes ago Mideast - AFP LONDON (AFP) - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the British government would study "in a very serious way" a report that around 100,000 civilians in Iraq (news - web sites) had died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. "This is a very high estimate, indeed," Straw told BBC radio. The research was published Friday in the respected British medical weekly The Lancet, and was based on interviews among Iraqi households and an extrapolation of the data, by experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in the US state of Maryland. Straw said the government had not yet had time to study the report. "Because it's in The Lancet, it is obviously something we have to look at in a very serious way," he said. Straw was speaking from Rome, where Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) was among EU leaders who were later Friday to sign the EU constitution. The researchers concluded in The Lancet article: "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq." "Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths." story.news.yahoo.com