mintpressnews | A study released earlier this year revealed the shocking death toll
of the United States’s “War on Terror” since the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
but the true body count could be even higher.
Published in March by Physicians for Social Responsibility,
the study, conducted by a team that included some Nobel Prize winners,
determined that at least 1.3 million people have died as a result of war
since Sept.11, 2001, but the real figure might be as high as two
million. The study was an attempt to “close the gaps” in existing
research, including studies like the Iraq Body Count,”
which puts the number of violent deaths in that country at about
219,000 since 2003, based on media reports of the time period.
Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed,
writing in April for Middle East Eye, explained some of the ways the
previous figures fell short, according to the physicians’ research:
“For instance, although 40,000 corpses had been buried in
Najaf since the launch of the war, IBC [Iraq Body Count] recorded only
1,354 deaths in Najaf for the same period. That example shows how wide
the gap is between IBC’s Najaf figure and the actual death toll – in
this case, by a factor of over 30.
Such gaps are replete throughout IBC’s database. In
another instance, IBC recorded just three airstrikes in a period in
2005, when the number of air attacks had in fact increased from 25 to
120 that year. Again, the gap here is by a factor of 40.”
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