Wikileaks: 15,000 Unaccounted Iraqi Deaths

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday October 24, 2010

The Telegraph reports:

The Iraq war logs have disclosed the existence of detailed records of Iraqi fatalities kept by US military, despite American authorities previously insisting that no such data was gathered.

The majority of the additional 15,000 deaths came from smaller incidents involving between one and three fatalities, IBC said.

US military logs reveal 109,032 deaths between January 2004 and December last year, including 66,000 civilian fatalities and 3,771 described as “Friendly”, namely British, US and other allied soldiers.

A spokesman for Iraq Body Count (IBC), the London-based organisation which monitors civilian deaths, said: “On the basis of these analyses IBC is able to conclude that some 15,000 hitherto unrecorded civilian deaths will be added to the public record from the Iraq war logs.

“These, together with new information on combatant deaths contained in the logs, will bring the recorded death toll since March 2003 to over 150,000, roughly 80 per cent of whom were civilians.”

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