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Reporting on Iraqi deaths better than expected

October 11th, 2006

The reporting on the new Lancet report of 650,000 “excess deaths” in Iraq is far better than was true of the 2004 study. In addition to the Washington Post article, I’ve already posted, see for example, the BBC’s ‘Huge rise’ in Iraqi death tolls; the Guardian’s ‘655,000 Iraqis killed since invasion’; and the New York Times‘ Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says. Also, view the NBC and CNN coverage in this YouTube clip:

Entry Filed under: Iraq, Middle East, Mortality, Public Health, Research Methods, Social Issues, War and Peace