War Dead est. at week’s end

Compiled and edited by Carolyn Bennett

How many (est.) in two-theater

U.S.-led

WAR DEAD?

Casualty sites reporting December 11-12, 2010

(accurate totals unknown)

• Anti-war dot com Casualties in Iraq since March 19, 2003

[U.S. war dead since the Obama inauguration January 20, 2009: 201]

Wounded 32,937-100,000

U.S. veterans with brain injuries 320,000

Suicides estimated: 18 a day

Latest update on this site: November 22, 2010

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

• Iraq Body Count (civilian deaths from violence) figures:

99,022 – 108,095

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

• ICasualties figures:

IRAQ: 4,430 U.S., 4,748 Coalition

AFGHANISTAN: 1,426 U.S., 2,256 Coalition

http://icasualties.org/oif/

 • Just Foreign Policy Iraqi deaths due to U.S. invasion —

“The number is … at least 10 times

greater than most estimates cited in U.S. media

yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths

caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003”:

1,421,933

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

AL JAZEERA REPORTS FROM
U.S. aggression, occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan

Afghanistan is suffering some of the worst violence in the nine-year conflict, with 1,271 civilians killed in the first six months of 2010, according to UN figures. The rise in civilian deaths represents a 21 percent increase over the same period in 2009.

More than 140,000 foreign troops are deployed in Afghanistan, mostly in the south and east of the country; and for them, 2010 also has been the deadliest year: an estimated 680 foreign-troop deaths compared with 521 for all of 2009.

Across Pakistan, an estimated 4,000 people have died in suicide and bomb attacks since government forces raided an Islamabad mosque in 2007.

AFGHANISTAN December 12
Forty-seven (est.) people died Saturday. Among the dead were more than a dozen civilians. A NATO air raid reportedly “killed at least 25 suspected fighters in eastern Afghanistan.”

AFGHANISTAN December 12
Six soldiers died Sunday while serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan’s southern region. These deaths represent “the highest death toll in a single incident [since] a renegade border police officer” killed six foreign troops on November 29. This year’s international-troop death toll is estimated at more than 670 “ well above the 502 figure in the whole of 2009.”

AFGHANISTAN December 11
Fifteen (est.) civilians died and four suffered wounds Friday when a roadside bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Many of the dead were children.

Also on Saturday close to an army checkpoint in northern Afghanistan, five Afghan soldiers and nine civilians suffered wounds when a suicide bomber blew up a stolen police car packed with explosives.

IRAQ December 12 
Seventeen people died Sunday (among them police officers) when a car bomb exploded in central Ramadi in Iraq’s western, predominantly Sunni Anbar province. The capital of the Anbar province and Iraq’s largest area, Ramadi lies approximately 100 kilometers (61 miles) west of Baghdad.

PAKISTAN December 6-12 
Fifteen people died and several dozen suffered wounds Friday when a trailer packed with explosives blew up outside a hospital in northwest Pakistan. Friday’s bombing was the fourth in Pakistan since Monday.

Forty-three people died Monday when bombs exploded “attacking anti-Taliban militiamen and pro-government elders in Mohmand.” Nine people suffered wounds Tuesday and the motorcade of the chief minister of Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan sustained damages when a suicide bomb exploded.


Sources
“Scores killed in Afghan violence—At least 47 people, many of them civilians, killed in incidents across war-ravaged country,” December 12, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/12/2010121205341227925.html
“Bomb blast kills Afghan civilians — At least 15 people die after a vehicle they were travelling in drove over an explosive device, detonating it,” December 11, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/12/2010121154123846565.html
“Bomber strikes Pakistan hospital — Suicide attack at Shia hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province kills at least 15 and wounds several dozen,” December 10, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/12/2010121012392823908.html
“Afghan attack kills NATO troops — At least six foreign soldiers killed in fighting in the south of the country,” December 12, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/12/20101212103213118342.html

“Suicide car bomb hits Anbar — At least 17 people killed after attack on government building in the western Iraqi province,” December 12, 2010,
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/2010121273656219446.html

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