Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey
By REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.
The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the war, the researchers found.
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to 1.12 million.
ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but decided to go back and conduct more research in rural areas to make the survey as comprehensive as possible and then came up with the revised figure.
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.
The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the war, the researchers found.
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to 1.12 million.
ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but decided to go back and conduct more research in rural areas to make the survey as comprehensive as possible and then came up with the revised figure.
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The World Health Organization and the Iraqi government peg the figure at 151,000. link While the Iraq Body Count lists the deaths at less than 90,000. Agendas may dictate who is counted (and if the death was attributeable to the conflict or natural causes), but it’s still unfathomable … especially if you look even at the IBC website and see the number of deaths are still being reported daily. In January, Iraqi civilians and security forces killed was at least 599, an Associated Press tally showed, the lowest monthly death toll since December 2005, (while the Iraqi ministries of Defense, Interior and Health was slightly lower, at 543). It’s still a dangerous, civil war zone. What should be most alarming is that the US military has increased its use of air bombings. The increase in US military deaths may be a result of sending teams in after the bombings are completed and then tripping IEDs.
What I would find interesting is how many deaths have occurred after the coaltion forces have turned over responsiblities to the Iraq Security Force. For example, in Basra, where the ISF took control in December, where 97 died and 217 were wounded in one weekend in January while in another instance, the UK troops are being taunted by where militants pummeled Britain's airport base with 20 rockets and the Brits “responded with six high-explosive artillery shells — killing at least one person and wounding five.”
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