As terrorist bombs tore through London, Beirut, Sharm-al-Sheik, Cairo, and Istanbul this week, the Iraq Body Count and Oxford Research Group compiled the grim statistics of the ongoing carnage in Iraq; nearly 25,000 civilians killed, at least 42,500 injured, and over 1,700 American soldiers dead. According to the study, titled Dossier on Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003-2005, American-led forces were responsible for 37 percent of all non-combatant deaths, with insurgents responsible for 9 percent, and another 36 percent falling under the vague but lethal umbrella of post-invasion criminal violence.  

Mimi Hanaoka