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Death toll in Iraqi civil war
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Q: How fast is the civil war getting worse?
zFact:The death toll for Iraq doubled in half a year.
The death toll in January was 1778, and 6 months later in July, 3,590. In August, with a new opperation by the US Army, the total fell to 3009. For Baghdad, the death toll was 1595 in June and 1855 in July. These numbers come from the new Iraqi goverment and were reported to the U.N. (pdf ) and then by the New York Times.
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zFact:This graph is an undercount of Iraqi deaths in their civil war.
Before 2006, the death toll includes only Iraqi deaths reported in the press. We now know that these figures missed at least half of the fatalities from January through June, 2006. The Iraqi government has now released a count based on hospitals and the Bahgdad morgue. These total 14,388, while deaths reported by the press total only 7024. The Iraqi Ministry of Health indicated that their figures also under-report war-related deaths.
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zFact:Iraqi deaths are running 50 times higher than American.
U.S. combat fatalities in June: 57 in Iraq, 4 in Afghanistan. Iraqi civilian combat deaths in June: 3149that's 51 times more than in our "war on terror". If our's is a war, there conflict is a war.zSource: These numbers come from the new Iraqi goverment and were reported to the U.N. (pdf) and then by the New York Times.
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zFact:For its size, Iraq's fatalities are 600 times higher than US fatalities
Iraq's population is 12 times smaller than the US population, so in proportion, Iraqis are suffering 600 times more fatalities in their civil war than the US is suffering in our "war on terror."zSource: These numbers come from the new Iraqi goverment and were reported to the U.N. (pdf) and then by the New York Times.
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http://zfacts.com/p/458.html | 01/18/12 07:20 GMT
Modified: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:20:37 GMT
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