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Aprox. 100,000 including at least 20,000 terrorists. Most deaths are young men dying of gun wounds... draw your conclusions. That very well includes militias and gangs killing each other.
That's because he's smart enough to recognize BS when he sees it.
I appreciate you posting this very important piece, but I still call ‘bull’ on it.
The earlier Lancet report gave a yearly total of approximately 220,000 war-related deaths a year from March 2003 to end of June 2006, based on a survey of 2000 homes. This new report gives a yearly total of approximately 35,000-75,000 deaths based on a survey of 9,000 homes. The higher figures in the new report are still nowhere near the approximately 15,000 deaths a year reported by Iraq Body Count, which is by no means a war-supporting forum, but whose methodology of using media reports is probably at least as valid as the methodology used by the Lancet and this new team.
I await a more conclusive report based on a larger and more comprehensive country-wide survey, once it is safe to conduct such a study. I suspect that the actual figure is between the IBC numbers and the low number for the second report.