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Originally Posted by jimmy22
This news is by BBC and it could be read at their website |
I was referring to the primary source, the report itself. It can be found here:
http://reports.iraqbodycount.org/a_d..._2003-2005.pdf
Overall, the report looks relatively solid. However, it's last date of data entry was 19 March, and insurgents and terrorists have been adding to their totals by the bushel since. In contrast, 95% of casualties caused by the US has been during the three periods of high intensity combat (see below). What the report doesn't discuss with enough clarity is specifics on separating civilian deaths with insurgent deaths during the two assaults on Fallujah, as the number of civilian deaths seems too high for those two periods.
If you look at page 12, you see three spikes of deaths due to US forces: the ground war in March/April 2003, Fallujah I, and Fallujah II. The first period, during the ground war, accounts for 74% of civilian deaths at the hands of the US. The last two periods account for another 21%.
Also, it clarified its terminology of explosive devices, which includes everything that goes boom, and refers to IEDs as roadside bombs instead.