"PRECISION WARFARE" Breaks Down In Counting The DEAD

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Claudia Parsons, Reuters, 4/16/03

AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar - The U.S. military boasts its precision-guided 
bombs are more accurate than ever. But counting Iraq's war dead has proved 
less precise.

Asked how many Iraqis had been killed since U.S.-led forces launched a war 
on March 20 to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Captain Frank Thorp at U.S. war 
headquarters in Qatar said: "We really don't know...The measure of success 
in this operation was whether the regime fell."

A website (www.iraqbodycount.net) run by academics and peace activists puts 
Iraq's civilian casualties at between 1,402 and 1,817, based on incidents 
reported by at least two media sources, though its methodology has been 
questioned.

The last Iraqi estimate issued on April 3, just two weeks into the war and 
well before Saddam's rule crumbled, was 1,254 civilians killed and 5,112 
wounded. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has no 
comprehensive figures.

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