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Old 04-08-2004, 07:53 PM
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They left out Islamic militants, likely because it would use too much bandwidth.
They don't keep lists on militants, but here's what we have for "non-combatants." I'm sure there's a clerk somewhere tracking the payments.



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/international/middleeast/17CIVI.html?ex=1081569600&en=303609a390a4acec&ei=5070

Military officials say they do not have precise figures or even estimates of the number of noncombatant Iraqis killed and wounded by American-led forces in Iraq. "We don't keep a list," said a Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell. "It's just not policy." But nonprofit groups in Iraq and the United States say there were thousands of civilian casualties. According to Civic, a nonprofit organization that has surveyed Iraqi hospitals, burial societies and hundreds of families, more than 5,000 civilians were killed between March 20, when the war started, and May 1, when major combat operations ended. "It says a lot that the military doesn't even keep track of these things," said Marla Ruzicka, Civic's founder
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