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Title: Pentagon Refuses To Clarify Iraqi Death Tally figures
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/ ... ify-iraqi-death-tally-figures/
Published: Oct 14, 2010
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2010-10-14 12:44:01 by Brian S
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Views: 11173
Comments: 1

New US military tally says 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security troops killed from 2004 to 2008

In its most extensive death tally of the Iraq war, the U.S. military says nearly 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security officials were killed from early 2004 to mid-2008 — a toll that falls well below Iraqi government figures.

The military's count, which spans the bloodiest chapter of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the U.S. troop surge to quell it, is short of the 85,694 figure released last year by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry that covers early 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008.

Casualty figures in the U.S.-led war in Iraq have been hotly disputed because of the high political stakes in a conflict opposed by many countries and a large portion of the American public. Critics on each side of the divide accuse the other of manipulating the death toll to sway opinion.

The U.S. military has repeatedly resisted Associated Press requests to share its comprehensive figures on Iraqi civilian casualties, and the new data was released without comment or explanation when it was quietly posted on the U.S. Central Command's website in July.

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The figures were discovered this week during a routine check by The AP for civilian and military casualty numbers that were first requested in 2005 through the Freedom of Information Act. A spokesman at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., could not immediately explain how the tally was compiled or why it was released.

The spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael T. Lawhorn, also could not clarify Thursday whether the new casualty numbers included suspected insurgents, or whether government-backed Sunni fighters known as Sahwa, or Awakening Councils, were included in the number of Iraqi security forces killed.

In all, the U.S. data tallied 76,939 Iraqi security officials and civilians killed and 121,649 wounded between January 2004 and August 2008. The count shows 3,952 American and other U.S.-allied international troops were killed over the same period.

The figures did not specify whether the civilian deaths were caused by sectarian violence, but appeared to track charts previously released by the Defense Department of Iraqis killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom who died as a result of hostile violence — as opposed to accidents or natural causes.

Those charts — which did not provide concrete numbers — were based on data compiled by U.S. and Iraqi government figures.

The U.S. count falls short of casualty figures compiled by Iraq's Human Rights Ministry.

The ministry said in its report released last October that 85,694 people were killed from the beginning of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008, and 147,195 were wounded. The figures included Iraqi civilians, military and police, but did not cover U.S. military deaths, insurgents, or foreigners, including contractors. Like the new U.S. figures, the Iraqi report did not include the first months of the war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

A tally by the Iraq Body Count, a private, British-based group that has tracked civilian casualties since the war began, estimates that between 98,252 and 107,235 Iraqi civilians were killed between March 2003 to Sept. 19, 2010. The group has used media reports and other sources to reach its tally.

Until last month, The AP compiled its own daily body count of Iraqi civilians killed in sectarian violence, excluding insurgents. Overall, The AP tallied 49,416 Iraqi security officials and civilians killed between April 28, 2005 and Sept. 30, 2010. That figure underrepresented the true casualty number because many killings went unreported, especially in more remote areas.

The Central Command figures represent the largest release of raw data by the U.S. military to detail deaths during the Iraq war. The military has repeatedly resisted sharing its numbers, which it uses to determine security trends.

A notable exception, however, came this year when U.S. military officials in Baghdad decided to release their July 2010 Iraqi casualty tally to refute the Iraqi government's much higher monthly figures. That decision was made weeks before U.S. forces withdrew all but 50,000 troops from Iraq — as ordered by President Barack Obama in an attempt to wind down the war and tout the nation's improved security.

Even so, counting the number of Iraqis killed has always been difficult, and tallies have widely varied depending on the source.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Nobody cares.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-10-14   12:53:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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