{"id":1207,"date":"2003-10-29T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/10\/29\/\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T13:40:12","slug":"1207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/1207\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/iraq-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Flag\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/World\/Iraq\/0,,2-10-1460_1437164,00.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Iraqi toll in the thousands<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>Washington &#8211; An estimated 13 000 Iraqis, including 4 300 non-combatants, were killed during the major combat phase of the war in Iraq.<\/strong> (March 19 to the end of April)<\/p>\n<p>The Project on Defense Alternatives said its estimate was based on a review of US combat data, battlefield press reports, and Iraqi hospital surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of Iraqi fatalities during the relevant period, approximately 30{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} (or between 3 200 and 4 300) were non-combatant civilians &#8212; that is civilians who did not take up arms,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The study, authored by Carl Coneta, found that <u>deaths of Iraqi civilians who did not take up arms in the fighting was as high or higher than in the 1991 Gulf War despite advances in precision weaponry<\/u>.<br \/><em>(thanks Eon)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi toll in the thousandsWashington &#8211; An estimated 13 000 Iraqis, including 4 300 non-combatants, were killed during the major combat phase of the war in Iraq. (March 19 to the end of April) The Project on Defense Alternatives said its estimate was based on a review of US combat data, battlefield press reports, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}