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 IRAQ, Landmine Monitor Report 2002
Iraq is a producer of antipersonnel mines, although it is not known if production is on-going or if it commences to meet specific requirements.
Iraq is assumed to have a significant stockpile of antipersonnel mines, but no details are available.
Iraq is severely affected by mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) as a consequence of the Gulf War, the Iraq-Iran War and two decades of internal conflict.
www.icbl.org /lm/2002/iraq.html   (1101 words)

  
 Amnesty International and the Iraq conflict - Amnesty International
Before the military action against Iraq began on 20 March, AI repeatedly warned of the grave risk of widespread disorder, humanitarian crisis and human rights abuses, including revenge attacks, once the Iraqi government's authority was removed.
A broader task in Iraq is to secure order and ensure that occupying powers and any interim authority respect their obligations to all of the people of Iraq.
AI repeatedly called on the parties to the conflict to ban the use of "weapons which are inherently indiscriminate or otherwise prohibited under international humanitarian law".
web.amnesty.org /web/web.nsf/pages/iraq_faq   (2263 words)

  
 Iraqi Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and continuing with the ensuing 2003 occupation of Iraq and continuing occupation presence) have come in many forms, and the accuracy of the information available on different types of casualties varies greatly.
At best, we learn of estimates of casualty levels either from reporters on the scene, from officials of involved organizations, or from groups that summarize information on incidents reported in the news media.
In this study, 48% of the Army soldiers who had served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and 65% of the Marines said that they were responsible for the death of at least one enemy combatant.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10210   (1908 words)

  
 IRAQ
In the interest of preventing such a war, the Iraqi Foreign Minister's statement to the UN/GA that the country is free of WMD and the agreement by the Iraqi authorities to re-admit unconditionally UN arms inspectors at this stage should be taken at face value and UNMOVIC's installation in Baghdad be pursued without delay.
UNICEF in its annual State of the Children's report identified Iraq as the country which showed an increase of 160% in the mortality rate of children under five for the period 1990 to 1999.
In the absence of an objective position on Iraq, The EU had been largely excluded as a contributor to the international Iraq debate.
www.irak.be /ned/bivv/iraq4questions4answers.htm   (2676 words)

  
 Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Megan McClung, proud to be in Iraq, was a public affairs officer known for her enthusiasm and athletic prowess.
DAVID L. As the members of the Iraq Study Group were announcing the results of their inquiry Wednesday morning, Vintage Books, the trade paperback division of Random House, was rushing an authorized edition of "The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward — A New Approach" into print.
BAGHDAD — Gunmen killed the director of Iraq's state television channel and his driver Saturday, the second slaying this month of a figure who shapes broadcast news coverage of the country's sectarian strife.
www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/iraq   (2856 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Iraq
Some observers believe that measuring the bloodshed on both sides of the conflict is a useful way to measure the progress of the war.
In the fall of 2004, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw issued a written statement in which he said, "In many cases it would be impossible to make a reliably accurate assessment either of the civilian casualties resulting from any particular attacks or of the overall civilian casualties of a conflict.
There are problems inherent in Iraq Body Count's methodology, not the least of which is the reliance on information gathered by the media.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/iraq/casualties.html   (1278 words)

  
 Turkish Weekly Comment - 'Forgotten Cost': Civilian Casualties in the Iraq Conflict
A report by the UK-based group Iraq Body Count (IBC), in combination with the Oxford Research Group, says it aims to remove some of the uncertainty by producing the most detailed picture yet of civilian casualties in the two years since the 2003 invasion.
A total of 24,865 civilians were reported killed in the first two years of the conflict, beginning with the invasion, almost 20% of them women or children.
The membership aspect of the EU is shaped in terms of the criteria determined by the Union.
www.turkishweekly.net /comments.php?id=1539   (2213 words)

  
 Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All estimates of coalition casualties below are as of 13 December 2006, and include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present.
As of 15 September 2006, 468 American troops had to have limbs amputated in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 78 have lost more than one limb.
To arrive at these excess death figures, a survey was taken from 988 Iraqi households in 33 clusters throughout Iraq, in which the residents were asked how many people lived there and how many births and deaths there had been since the war began.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casualties_in_the_conflict_in_Iraq   (3717 words)

  
 IRAQ BODY COUNT Fundraising appeal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Not even the most pessimistic of us predicted that nearly four years later we would still be adding the dead and injured to our database on a daily basis.
Our work continues to ensure that civilian casualties in Iraq cannot be ignored or forgotten.
We are committed to continuing this work for as long as people are being killed in Iraq's post-invasion violence.
www.iraqbodycount.net /bodycount.htm   (272 words)

  
 War Casualties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CAMP VICTORY, IRAQ (MAY 8, 2003) - One V Corps soldier was killed in a shooting incident in Baghdad today.The soldier was killed when he was approached and shot by an unknown attacker with a pistol in east Baghdad at approximately 1:00 pm.
His movements in Iraq are likely to be closely watched by United States and British officials, who are concerned that he might push for an Islamic state in Iraq.
Conflict over the appointment of a Saddam crony as the Health Minister, and his release of false information, the return of a Shia leader, and fear of the possible collapse of Iraq's agriculture industry, and warnings of possible starvation this summer, from the Guardian Unlimited:
warcasualties.blogspot.com   (15659 words)

  
 News & Analysis: Annan ‘increasingly concerned’ by civilian casualties in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced increasing concern over civilian casualties of the conflict in Iraq, and met with his top humanitarian officials to discuss contingency plans for United Nations relief agencies to return to the country as soon as the military action permits.
He said he would discuss with the UN agency heads contingency planning of what should be done once the military conflict permitted.
Annan said: “I think it is important that all parties to the conflict respect the Geneva Convention.
electroniciraq.net /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/431/printer   (514 words)

  
 Iraq War, 2003
Abizaid characterised the low intensity conflict in Iraq as "war", as doubts about the justification for the war and a peace plan continued to rise in the US and UK sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, killed in American raid in Mosul
Iraq declared a state of emergency in Basra after worst month of violence since 2003, a sign that British control had unraveled
Note: casualty figures are approximate as of 1 May 2003 when President Bush declared an end of the military phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
www.regiments.org /wars/21stcent/03iraq.htm   (1920 words)

  
 Wage Peace Campaign : AFSC
We are on pace to soon reach 3,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.
Dreams and Nightmares is a memorial to Iraqis who have lost their lives in the war and occupation.
The U.S. occupation of Iraq is both wrong and counter- productive.
www.afsc.org /iraq   (155 words)

  
 National and International News - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Here is a closer look at many of the U.S. military personnel killed in October because of the conflict in Iraq.
Here is a closer look at many of the U.S. military personnel killed in September because of the conflict in Iraq.
Honor the Fallen is a tribute to soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by MilitaryCity.com
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/casualties/front.htm   (238 words)

  
 Report claims most casualties in Iraq conflict will be civilians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An international coalition of physicians is warning that an attack on Iraq will lead to the deaths of nearly 500,000 people.
It says military analysts underestimate the human toll of an attack on Iraq and warns of a likely civil war if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is forced from power.
Hoskins says his group supports efforts to disarm Iraq, but another war would leave the social and economic infrastructure in ruins, in a country where an estimated 20 per cent of the population already suffers from malnutrition.
www.cbc.ca /news/story/2002/11/12/iraqreport021112.html   (1190 words)

  
 U.S. casualties surge in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
WASHINGTON - U.S. military casualties have surged in Iraq in recent weeks, with U.S. troops engaging in perilous urban sweeps to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad while facing unrelenting violence elsewhere.
William Caldwell, briefing in Baghdad on Thursday, attributed the rising casualties to insurgent violence that coincides with the current Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as well as more aggressive operations in Baghdad.
At least 33 people were killed Thursday in attacks, including 11 in an assault on a new Sunni-Arab television station in Baghdad, while authorities found the mutilated bodies of more likely victims of the sectarian death squads that roam the capital.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15232508   (825 words)

  
 Casualties of the War in Iraq
Iraq Aims to Limit Mortality Data - Health Ministry Told Not to Release Civilian Death Toll to U.N. Iraq attacks kill 10 US soldiers - "...more than 60 US troops have been killed this month...
In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens
Iraq's War Dead - "This week's grim milestone, 2,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq, doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the real human costs of this war."
www.purposeless.com   (712 words)

  
 CNN.com - Special Reports
View casualties in the war in Afghanistan and examine U.S. war casualties dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Allen died on June 8, 2005, in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in an alleged fratricide attack in Tikrit, Iraq, on June 7, 2005.
Bates was on a patrol on the Tigris River south of Baghdad, Iraq, on December 10, 2003, when his squad leader fell overboard.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties   (7631 words)

  
 CNN.com - Pentagon estimates Iraq civil toll - Oct 30, 2005
Relatives grieve for victims of a weekend truck bombing in Iraq.
The figure was extrapolated from a bar graph on page 23 of the report, which shows average daily casualties since January 2004.
The 44-page report, "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq," was submitted to the U.S. Congress on October 13, two days before Iraq's constitutional referendum.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/10/30/iraq.casualties/index.html   (358 words)

  
 News & Analysis: Annan ‘increasingly concerned’ by civilian casualties in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
News and Analysis: Annan ‘increasingly concerned’ by civilian casualties in Iraq
This page is part of Electronic Iraq/electronicIraq.net, a joint project from Voices in the Wilderness and The Electronic Intifada.
All material on this website is copyright ©2003-2005 of the author or original source.
electroniciraq.net /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/431   (633 words)

  
 Google Earth Blog: Iraq Conflict Casualties Map in Google Earth
In response to All Saints/Veterans Day, someone decided to collect and post a memorial of those who gave their lives so far in the Iraq conflict from the Americans and Coalition Forces.
The information came from the official icasualties.org web site, and includes the 2212 casualties through 27-October-2005.
In addition to the home location of each casualty, if you click on the placemark it may contain a photo, a link to basic background information, and links to other information, if available, such as news stories.
www.gearthblog.com /blog/archives/2005/11/war_casualties.html   (311 words)

  
 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
MSNBC Home » World News » Conflict in Iraq
Because names are not always released immediately, the number of names in the database may not correspond to overall numbers of deaths reported by military authorities.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3359080   (117 words)

  
 Conflict in Iraq :: spokesmanreview.com :: Search the casualties database
Conflict in Iraq :: spokesmanreview.com :: Search the casualties database
Asad in western Iraq, near the Syrian border
Forward Operating Base Q-West (Quyarrah Air Base, Iraq)
www.spokesmanreview.com /iraq/database/casualties_search.asp   (45 words)

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