|
| Iraq death toll re****t defended by researchers
| Group: Estimate of up to 794,000 civilian deaths based on sound methods
| ...
| "I think this is an extremely credible study," said Michael
| Intriligator, professor of economics at the University of
| California at Los Angeles.
|
| Intriligator, who said he commonly uses cluster sampling in
| his own work, noted that the study.s most remarkable finding
| was the death rates in the country have risen from 5.5 per
| thousand Iraqis per year before the invasion to 13.2 per
| thousand per year as of the study's July cutoff.
| ...
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15364807/>
|
| A monstrous war crime
|
| With more than 650,000 civilians dead in Iraq, our government
| must take responsibility for its lies
|
| Richard Horton
| Wednesday March 28, 2007
| The Guardian
|
| Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their
| word. This week the BBC re****ted that the government's own scientists
| advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian
| mortality was accurate and reliable, following a freedom of information
| request by the re****ter Owen Bennett-Jones. This paper was published in
| the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had
| died since the American and British led invasion in March 2003.
| ...
| Two hundred years from now, the Iraq war will be mourned as the moment
| when Britain violated its delicate democratic constitution and joined
| the ranks of nations that use extreme pre-emptive killing as a tactic
| of foreign policy. Some anniversary that will be.
|
| Richard Horton is a doctor and the editor of the Lancet
|
<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,,2044346,00.html>
Here's an independent study again confirming the _Lancet_ re****t:
|
| Iraq conflict has killed a million Iraqis: survey
| Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:55pm EST
|
| LONDON (Reuters) - More than one million Iraqis have died
| as a result of the conflict in their country since the
| U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted
| by one of Britain's leading polling groups.
|
| The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB)
| with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20
| percent of people had had at least one death in their
| household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural
| causes.
|
| The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found
| 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used
| to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had
| died as a result of the war, the researchers found.
|
| The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and
| September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths
| of 946,258 to 1.12 million.
|
| ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but
| decided to go back and conduct more research in rural areas
| to make the survey as comprehensive as possible and then
| came up with the revised figure.
| ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL3048857920080130?sp=true>
--bks
|
