In memory of those who have died in Iraq

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In memory of those who have died in Iraq

No official organisation has collated the Iraqi dead. Here we list the 3,000 people known to have died - just one tenth of the most conservative estimates


Published: 20 March 2006

ATWAR BAHJAT

A prominent Iraqi journalist born of a Shia-Sunni mixed marriage, she was murdered along with two colleagues as they reported on the destruction of the al-Askariya shrine in Samarra in February. "She never talked about Kurds, Shias and Sunnis," said a colleague. "She always talked about Iraqis."

HAIFA AND SAAD AHMEN FUAD

The eight-year-old Haifa, her four-year-old brother, Saad, and their friend, six-year-old Muhammad Salih Ali, gathered around a burned Humvee in Ramadi after a blast had killed five US and two Iraqi soldiers in October 2005. A US F-15 fighter then jet fired on the crowd. The US military said it had killed 70 insurgents, and knew of no civilian deaths.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article352384.ece

[Untermonkey]

1. I have no doubt the real total is over 100,000.

And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it was even higher.