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Iraqi civilian casualties

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

07/12/05 "UPI" - - BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi humanitarian organization is
reporting that 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion
began in March 2003.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that chairman of the 'Iraqiyun humanitarian
organization in Baghdad, Dr. Hatim al-'Alwani, said that the toll includes
everyone who has been killed since that time, adding that 55 percent of
those killed have been women and children aged 12 and under.

'Iraqiyun obtained data from relatives and families of the deceased, as
well as from Iraqi hospitals in all the country's provinces. The 128,000
figure only includes those whose relatives have been informed of their
deaths and does not include those were abducted, assassinated or simply
disappeared.

The number includes those who died during the U.S. assaults on al-Fallujah
and al-Qa'im. 'Iraqiyun's figures conflict with the Iraqi Body Count
public database compiled by Geneva-based Graduate Institute of
International Studies. According to the Graduate Institute of
International Studies' database, 39,000 Iraqis have been killed as a
direct result of combat or armed violence since March 2003. No official
estimates of Iraqi casualties from the war have been issued by the
Pentagon, which insists that it does not do "body counts." The Washington
Post on July 12 reported that U.S. military deaths in Iraq now total
1,755.

Copyright © 2005 News World Communications Inc
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