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Possible estimates on the total number of people killed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq vary widely. All estimates below are as of 28 October, 2006, and include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003-2006.
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655,000 excess deaths up to September 2006 - from the second (October 2006) Lancet survey of mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq:a cross-sectional cluster sample survey; See Lancet surveys of mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq
46,863-51,968 civilian deaths up to October 16, 2006 - as compiled from media reports by the Iraq Body Count project (IBC)
"At least 50,000" - as of June 2006 - based on compilation of official figures from the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Baghdad Morgue.
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| U.S. armed forces |
2,811 total deaths, 21,266 combat wounded (9,603 evacuated), plus an unknown number of non-combat injuries. |
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| Armed forces of other coalition countries |
See Multinational force in Iraq
239 (120 British, 32 Italian, 18 Ukrainian, 17 Polish, 13 Bulgarian, 11 Spanish, 6 Danes, 5 Salvadorans, 3 Slovaks, 2 Australians, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 2 Romanians, 2 Thai, 1 Fijian, 1 Hungarian, 1 Kazakh, 1 Latvian).
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| Non-Iraqi civilians |
In total, at least 568 non-Iraqi individuals have been killed since the 2003 invasion (311 contractors, 87 journalists, 20 media support workers, and 150 aid workers).
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- References
- Bush, George W., "President Discusses War on Terror and Upcoming Iraqi Elections"
- "CNN-McLellan"
- "Iraq Body Count"
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- "CNN - U.N.: 14,000 Iraqis killed in 2006"
- Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham, Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey
- Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts, Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cross-sectional cluster sample survey
- "Forces: U.S. & Coalition Casualties". CNN, March 2003.
- Kneisler, Patricia, et. al., "Military Fatalities". iCasualties (Lunaville), Benicia, CA, 2005.
- Kneisler, Patricia, et. al., "Military Fatalities". iCasualties (Lunaville), Benicia, CA, 2005.
- Kneisler, Patricia, et. al., "Journalist". iCasualties (Lunaville), Benicia, CA, 2005.
- Rosenthal, Elisabeth, "Study Puts Iraqi Deaths of Civilians at 100,000". International Herald Tribune, October 29, 2004.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "Defence Force to probe soldier's death" 22 April 2006
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