Iraq War Civilian Death Toll Past 6,000 - Group

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LONDON (Reuters) - New information from remote locations of Iraq (news - web sites) has pushed up the civilian death toll from the U.S.-led war by 500 in the last month to at least 6,000, an Anglo-American research group said on Wednesday.


The Iraq Body Count's (IBC) latest figures, based on media reports and more than a dozen counting projects from independent investigators in and outside Iraq, put the minimum number of civilians dead at 6,055 and the maximum at 7,706.


"Both the U.S. & the U.K. said they were taking every effort to minimize civilian casualties and talked a lot about smart, precision weapons," IBC researcher John Sloboda told Reuters.


"From that, one could have expected a clean war with very few casualties, but I don't call 5,000 to 7,000 very few. It is clear the coalition claims were political claptrap."

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1. Photos of dead civilians need to be published in the US.

Human chimps are most affected by the color red when it is from the inside of human bodies. Terrorists know this and kill people to have their causes noticed. Anti-war activists need to utilize the seas of blood that have already been spilled to sensitize American chimps to the inhumanity of the current illegitimate government's murderous foreign policies. Let us cover this country with posters of dead and mutilated Afghan and Iraqi women and children because it is the only thing that will reach through the consumer escapism and White House generated nationalist propaganda to activate the humanistic spirit of sleeping or hiding Americans.