Casualty sites reporting
February 17, 2010 casualty sites reporting (accurate totals unknown)
• Anti-war dot com March 19, 2003 ─ [Since the Obama inauguration January 20, 2009: 148] Wounded 31,648-100,000; U.S. veterans with brain injuries 320,000; Suicides 18 a day http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/Bloodletting
• Iraq Body Count figures: 95,409-104,100, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
• ICasualties [not current] IRAQ: 4,375 U.S., 4,693 Coalition; AFGHANISTAN: 984 U.S., 1,624 Coalition http://icasualties.org/oif/
• Just Foreign Policy: [not current] 1,366,350 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq
News from Middle East/Central/South Asia WAR
February 17
AFGHANISTAN
Two errant U.S. missiles on Sunday struck a house on the outskirts of Marjah. Twelve people died. Half of them were children.
On Tuesday, an Afghan human rights group said they had counted 19 civilian deaths since the start of the latest U.S. killing spree. Four of the dead had been “caught in the crossfire” as they left their homes. The director of Afghanistan Rights Monitor told Al Jazeera “neighbors reported bodies left outside” waiting to be removed. Survivors on this slaughter said they were “scared if they go outside they too will be shot dead.”
At least 1,240 families are said to have fled the massive US/UK onslaught against the Taliban. Many people are seeking shelter with friends and relatives as no camps have been set up for the displaced.
February 11
Afghanistan
An estimated 185 people have died in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of the Afghan capital … More than 200 lorries [trucks], buses and cars were trapped inside the tunnel at 3,400 meters (11,154.85 feet) above sea level.
February 14
PAKISTAN
A deadly explosion has hit the Indian city of Pune leaving nine people dead and 57 wounded. The incident throws the India/Pakistan peace talks into jeopardy. Saturday’s bomb attack was India’s first big assault since the Mumbai attack that left 166 people dead.
February 14
IRAQ
Elections are due March 7 in Iraq. Leading up to that event, candidate expulsions and bomb attacks rooted in U.S. invasion 2003 have rocked Baghdad. Bans on candidates ─ a ban that blacklisted more than 500 Sunni and Shia candidates, severely affecting the Iraqiya list ─ have resulted in suspensions of election campaigns and bombings of political offices across Baghdad. A blast struck the political offices of Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni politician and co-founder of the barred Iraqiya list. Another bomb that wounded two guards was thrown into the garden of a building used by Sunni scholars including poll candidates in Mansour in west Baghdad. A third blast damaged the headquarters of the United Iraq list in east Baghdad. Another blast hit the headquarters of the Moderate Movement list in Karrada in east Baghdad wounding two people. A fifth bomb struck a building used by an election list led by Nehru Abdulkarim al-Keznazani and wounded another person. The election turmoil in Iraq seems to find roots in the ban on candidates accused of ties with the outlawed Baath party of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president whom the U.S.-led invasion and administration ousted and executed.
Sources
“Afghan civilians killed in fighting, February 17, 2010
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201021614344722197.html
“Afghan avalanches death toll soars,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201021083946138428.html
“Blast clouds ‘India-Pakistan talks,’”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201021474951328248.html
“Iraq coalition halts poll campaign,” http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/02/201021463242489398.html
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