The Secret Carnage: "An estimated 78,000 Iraqis were killed by U.S. and Coalition air strikes from the start of the war through June of last year, an article in 'The Nation' magazine says.
The estimate is based on the supposition that 13 percent of the 601,000 Iraqis who met violent deaths reported by The Lancet study released last October 'had been killed by bomb, missile, rocket or cannon up to last June,' author Nick Turse writes in the June 11th issue of the weekly magazine.
'There are indications that the air war has taken an especially grievous toll on Iraqi children,' Turse said.
'Figures provided by the Lancet study suggest that 50 percent of all violent deaths of Iraqi children under 15 in that same period (March 2003 through June 2006) were due to coalition airstrikes.'"
The estimate is based on the supposition that 13 percent of the 601,000 Iraqis who met violent deaths reported by The Lancet study released last October 'had been killed by bomb, missile, rocket or cannon up to last June,' author Nick Turse writes in the June 11th issue of the weekly magazine.
'There are indications that the air war has taken an especially grievous toll on Iraqi children,' Turse said.
'Figures provided by the Lancet study suggest that 50 percent of all violent deaths of Iraqi children under 15 in that same period (March 2003 through June 2006) were due to coalition airstrikes.'"
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