Comments on Casualty Monitor: Iraq, the US Surge, and Statistics

In the USA they are calling General Petraeus/Gener...

2007-09-15T02:24:49.703+01:00

In the USA they are calling General Petraeus/General Betray Us.

This is another useful source, the AP casualty fi...

2007-09-14T13:13:31.945+01:00

This is another useful source, the AP casualty figures

http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/247449.html

Here's the link:http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/st...

2007-09-14T09:48:24.088+01:00

Here's the link:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/19566.html

Thanks for that reference sdemetri. I thought the...

2007-09-14T09:46:32.745+01:00

Thanks for that reference sdemetri. I thought the McClatchy piece and their own data collection was very useful. It reinforces what our data analysis here suggests - the information Petraeus presented is not to be trusted.

Juan Cole posted a McClatchy news report from an a...

2007-09-13T18:26:12.201+01:00

Juan Cole posted a McClatchy news report from an anonymous Iraqi Interior official on Monday. It read in part:

"". . . According to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, 984 people were killed across Iraq in February, and 1,011 died in violence in August. No July numbers were released because the ministry said the numbers weren't clear.

But an official in the ministry who spoke anonymously because he wasn't authorized to release numbers said those numbers were heavily manipulated.

The official said 1,980 Iraqis had been killed in July and that violent deaths soared in August, to 2,890. . ."