Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadows dimming the exuberant mood of the victory parades is the thought of the masses of Iraqi soldiers killed. In one of the most lopsided battles in history, 389 Americans were killed and 357 were wounded; other allied forces suffered 77 dead and 830 wounded. But how many Iraqis died? No one really knows or probably ever will...
...response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, the Defense Intelligence Agency last week released an internal estimate of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded. But DIA said those figures had an "error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures...
...number of divisions deployed. But later interviews with prisoners indicated that many of the units were well below their official strength. Prisoner interrogations also hinted that desertions were even higher than the 150,000 the Pentagon estimated. Allied troops at the start of the ground war found the Iraqi defenses surprisingly thinly manned. So there may not have been enough Iraqis on hand to suffer 400,000 casualties, even if every last one was killed or wounded...
Children are faring the worst. According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, 80% of all deaths since the cease-fire have been youngsters. A Harvard medical team that visited Iraq in late April estimated that 170,000 children will die of gastrointestinal disease complicated by malnutrition as a result of the war. Allied bombing of power stations caused the breakdown of the water- purification system...
While the total amount of aid reaching the country is impossible to calibrate, a massive mobilization by UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross is under way. However, the situation for the summer remains grim. Iraqi health officials and Western observers say that without an immediate lifting of sanctions, at least as they affect the country's ability to import food and medicine, tens of thousands of children will die, the victims of a war that, for them, is still being waged...