I came across this article in a back copy of Extra: the Magazine of FAIR from Feb 2008 in which they report of the cost in Iraqi lives lost by our war there. They base their estimate of civilian dead on a John Hopkins School of Public Health study that was published in Lancet-a British medical journal on 10/21/06. That study estimates that as of July 2006, "665,000 Iraqis had been killed". "An extrapolation of the John Hopkins estimate of violent deaths done by Just Foreign Policy on 9/18/07 currently stands at over 1.1 million". Another study by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business from 9/07 also estimates that "over a million Iraqis have now been killed". This source claims that other US media are ignoring these study and the AP has reported that Americans think the death toll is "less than 10,000. A headline for this article was "the US press buries the evidence". (I have no way of knowing if the John Hopkins report is accurate, nor do I have any of knowing if the AP estimate is accurate).
(Source: "A Million Iraqi Dead?" by Patrick McElwee. Extra: The Magazine of FAIR. February 2008).
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