"In other words," FAIR states, "more than 16,500 Iraqi deaths." There are no exact figures for Iraqi fatalities, but estimates are for every American killed, 11 Iraqis died.'" FAIR reported March 21, 2005, on the media outlets who "took stock of the war's death toll," although FAIR opines that the "national newscasts undercounted the most dramatic loss of life: the deaths of Iraqi civilians."įor example, FAIR cites the March 18, 2005, CBS Evening News report by Byron Pitts, who said "Today, U.S. March 19, 2005, marked the second anniversary of the shock and awe phase of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Īlso see the "MNF-I Ethno-sectarian Violence Methodology" posted in the Talking Points Memo Document Collection. Many media and non-governmental organizations consider information on casualties released by the Iraqi ministries to be self-serving, misleading or contradictory," Spencer Ackerman reported September 21, 2007, for TPMmuckraker. "For executions, murders and kidnappings - situations in which sectarianism may be difficult to determine - MNF-I says it uses 'host nation' reporting in addition to its own. "Additionally, MNF-I calculates that the use of suicide vests, car bombs and IEDs strongly indicate Sunni perpetrators and reasons that attacks using those methods on 'medical centers, market places or religious symbols, mosques, religious gatherings, stores/restaurants, and housing areas' typically indicate sectarian violence, since those entities are primarily used by 'one ethnic/sectarian group.' MNF-I acknowledges that in these attacks 'there may have been Sunnis killed or injured,' and though it says it excludes 'same-sect civilians' from the tally, these are counted as sectarian attacks. forces, the Iraqi government or Iraqi security forces 'are excluded and not defined as sectarian attacks.' So even though Sunni insurgent groups loathe the Shiite-controlled government, insurgent attacks on it aren't considered sectarian violence. "Interestingly, attacks against 'same-sect civilians,' U.S. Ethno-sectarian violence is defined as violence 'conducted by one ethnic/religious group against another ethnic/religious group, where the primary motivation for the event is based on ethnic or religious reasons.' MNF-I analysts consider the location of the attack - whether it took place in a mixed area or a homogeneous one - and the type of attack in order to determine ethnic or sectarian violence.
Multi-National Force-Iraq's methodology for calculating a sectarian death count "identifies a number of factors, necessarily subjective, that help analysts determine whether an attack or a death should be considered sectarian. 1 Sectarian deathcount methodology 2007.Central Command.Īlso see "Iraqi Body Count project" in the Wikipedia.
"We don't do body counts." - General Tommy R. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the matter of Iraqi casualties - a body count, that is the number of Iraqis killed in action (KIA) - has not been forthcoming from U.S. External articles (has links to sub-articles).This article is part of SourceWatch and Congresspedia coverage of the
0 kommentar(er)
