October 20, 2006

New Study of Iraq's Civilian Deaths Confirms Earlier Estimates

By RICHARD BYRNE

In a finding that largely confirms the results of a controversial 2004 study of Iraqi mortality rates, a report published in a prominent British medical journal on October 12 estimates that nearly 655,000 more Iraqi civilians died from March 2003 to July 2006 than would have died if the country had not been invaded, occupied, and wracked by sectarian violence.

The report, in The Lancet, describes a study that was conducted by a team of American and Iraqi researchers and coordinated by

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