Thursday, October 17, 2013

REVISED IRAQI DEATH ESTIMATE

"... The latest and perhaps most rigorous survey... puts the figure at close to 500,000... The study,  a collaboration of researchers in the U.S., Canada and Iraq appearing in the journal PLoS Medicine...  estimated 405,000 deaths, with another 55,800 projected deaths from the extensive migration in and emigration from Iraq occurring as a result of the war. The researchers estimated that 60 percent of the deaths were violent, with the remaining 40 percent occurring because of the health-infrastructure issues that arose as a result of the invasion…"
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/15/iraq-war-civiliandeathtoll500knewstudyestimates.html