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- As the United States begins bombing the Iraqi city of Tikrit and again delays
a withdrawal from Afghanistan, a new report has found that the Iraq War has
killed about one million people. The Nobel Prize-winning International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other groups examined the toll
from the so-called war on terror in three countries — Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The investigators found "the war has, directly or indirectly, killed
around one million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in
Pakistan. Not included in this figure are further war zones such as Yemen. The
figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts
and decision makers are aware. ... And this is only a conservative estimate."
The true tally, they add, could be more than two million.
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