Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll

[kentuck]

Do you think this might be a credible study?
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/66E32EAF-0E4E-4765-9339-594C323A777F.htm

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An Iraqi political group says more than 37,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 and October 2003.

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Its calculation was based on deaths among the Iraqi civilian population only, and did not count losses sustained by the Iraqi military and paramilitary forces.

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Detailed figures

Al-Ubaidi, a UK-based physiology professor, provided a detailed breakdown of the 37,000 civilian deaths for each governorate (excluding the Kurdish areas) relating to the period between March and October 2003:

Baghdad: 6103
Mosul: 2009
Basra: 6734
Nasiriya: 3581
Diwania: 1567
Wasit: 2494
Babil: 3552
Karbala and Najaf: 2263
Muthana: 659
Misan: 2741
Anbar: 2172
Kirkuk: 861
Salah al-Din: 1797.

[NMDemDist2]

1. did you see Riverbend's blog?

she said they had trouble burying her aunt cuz the graveyard was getting 100 burials a month and had to put the bodies somewhere. It is a chilling stat

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

[spanone]

2. The truth may never be known.

This administration, in it's arrogance, has said we do not need to count the enemy dead. The only problem is that the 'enemy' encompasses thousands of civilians. Fuck Bush.

[SheilaT]

3. The number of Iraqis killed

since we invaded is the big untold story of this war. Not to mention the thousands more wounded and maimed. Our news media somehow pretends that only American soldiers are killed or wounded, but what we've done to their ordinary civilians is a true war crime.