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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32697)	10/28/2004 7:32:28 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

100,000 Excess Iraqi Deaths Since War - Study LONDON - Deaths of Iraqis have soared to 100,000 above normal since the Iraq war mainly due violence and many of the victims have been women and children, public health experts from the United States said Thursday. "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland said in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal. "Violence accounted for most of the excess death and air strikes from (U.S.-led) coalition forces accounted for the most violent deaths," the report added. The new figures, based on surveys done by the researchers in Iraq, are much higher than earlier estimates based on think tank and media sources which put the Iraqi civilian death toll at up to 16,053 and military fatalities as high as 6,370. By comparison 848 U.S. military were killed in combat or attacks and another 258 died in accidents or incidents not related to fighting, according to the Pentagon. "The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than in the period before the war," Les Roberts and his colleagues said in the report which compared Iraqi deaths during 14.6 months before the invasion and the 17.8 months after it. He added that violent deaths were widespread and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. "Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children," Roberts added. commondreams.org

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32697)	10/28/2004 7:34:33 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 173976

JOSH MARSHALL: The latest video tape of al Qaqaa unnearthed by a local ABC affiliate and now picked up nationally seems like pretty much game, set, match. Those corrugated barrels that look like what the IAEA described as the containers for the explosives? Turns out that's exactly what they are. So say at least two former weapons inspectors. And what about the IAEA seals that were supposed to be there? Turns out those are in the video too. The only question now, it seems, is why the president and his advisors spent four days spinning out increasingly far-fetched excuses and tall-tales about this hoping to brazen it out through November 2nd without fessing up. -- Josh Marshall Copyright 2004 Joshua Micah Marshall This document is available online at talkingpointsmemo.com