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Study Estimates 100,000 Extra Iraqi Deaths Caused By War
Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham | The Lancet | October 29, 2004
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Based on a series of cluster studies, Lancet estimates that making conservative methodological assumptions (See The Economist's Review of the Report), most likely 98,000 extra Iraqi deaths have occurred since the Invasion in March 2003. Currently the Brookings Institution, a major centrist Washington based Think-Tank, in their "Iraq Index," which is also available from why-war.com, estimates between 16,800 and 31,400 Iraqi casualties as of October 31, 2004. Iraqbodycount.net, the most cited source of civilian death statistics in the major media today, estimates between 14,000 and 16,400. Although these statistics may appear to be radically divergent, Lancet claims that they are the result of the difference between passive media monitoring and on-the-ground data gathering, and that furthermore, the trends in the wholely independent sources closely parallel one another, suggesting further evidence that the 98,000 projection may unfortunately in fact be correct. View file
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