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WikiLeaks: US under-reported Iraqi war deaths

Whitewing

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I'm sure Shamu got instant wood when he saw the title to this thread. But alas Shamu, it's not what you'd hoped for.

Here's your thread from about a month ago which claims 1.3 million Iraqi deaths at the hands of the US.

http://www.ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47396&highlight=deaths

And here's the article about WikiLeaks:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-iraqi-civilian-deaths-higher-reported/story?id=11953723

The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces.

"The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces)," WikiLeaks said in a statement regarding the documents' release. "The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60 percent) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six-year period."
 
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