120 deaths per day in first three years of Iraq occupation: WHO

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120 deaths per day in first three years of Iraq occupation: WHO

GENEVA (AFP) - An average of 120 Iraqi adults died a violent death every day in the three years following the US-led invasion of March 2003, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday.

A household survey carried out by the WHO and the Iraqi government between March 2003 and June 2006 estimated that between 104,000 and 223,000 people died from violence during that period.

"Violence became a leading cause of death for Iraqi adults ... and the main cause for men aged 15-59 years," according to the study which appeared on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine.

More than half of all the violent deaths occurred in the capital Baghdad, it added.

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As many as 233,000 through June 2006.

One day the world is going to find out how many Iraqis have died in Bush's illegal war

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1. And these numbers are low

the better numbers are more like 700,000-1.2mill

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2. I'm sure shrub considers it a small price to pay in order to remove

the phantom WMD from the Iraqis. They are much less dangerous without them, or at least that was the plan.