Reference
IBC Press coverage Up to 3 Nov 2005
More than just a list of links to IBC's coverage in the media, the articles below provided an insight into the development of the debate from 2003-2005. IBC discontinued the compilation of these links as the level of violence placed an increasing burden on our resources.
Iraq Body Count in the Press
This feature initiated May 2004. Last update 3 Nov 2005
It has been a heartening feature of the IBC project that press interest in our work has been wide-ranging and sustained. TV and radio broadcasters have included ABC (USA) News, CNN International, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, National Public Radio (USA), Pacifica, and many regional and community stations.
Below is a selection of press (mostly print) coverage of the IBC project, sometimes directly discussing our work but more often just citing it. Sometimes reference is made simply to our numbers.
The collection of links below also amounts to a useful overview of media discussion and coverage of civilian casualties in the Iraq war and occupation.
Wherever possible we have tried to provide a link to the original content.
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| FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER ATTACKS BUSH 'ARROGANCE' Post-Gazette - 03 November 2005 |
| LIBBY, LIES AND THE CASUALTIES OF WAR Indian Country - 03 November |
| VIOLENCE SURGES AS RAMADAN NEARS CLOSE LA Times - 03 November 2005 |
| MILWAUKEE PAPER APOLOGIZES FOR ACCEPTING 'COOKED' WMD EVIDENCE Editor & Publisher - 31 October 2005 |
| VICTIMS OF INSURGENTS IN IRAQ TOP 26,000 Daily Telegraph (London) - 31 October 2005 |
| PENTAGON ESTIMATES IRAQ CIVIL TOLL CNN - 31 October 2005 |
| PENTAGON COUNTS IRAQI CASUALTIES BBC - 31 October 2005 |
| PENTAGON REPORTS 26,000 IRAQI CASUALTIES IN 2 YEARS Guardian - 31 October 2005 |
| US MILITARY 'KNOWS OF 26,000 IRAQI VICTIMS' Irish Independent - 31 October 2005 |
| IRAQ: ESTIMATES VARY WIDELY ON IRAQI VICTIMS OF CONFLICT Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - 31 October 2005 |
| U.S. QUIETLY ISSUES ESTIMATE OF IRAQI CIVILIAN CASUALTIES New York Times - 30 October 2005 |
| BELIEVE IT NOT North Bay Bohemian - 30 October 2005 |
| IRAQ'S BODY COUNT Channel 4 News (UK) - 30 October 2005 |
| OUR EDITORIALS REPEATED WHAT WE NOW KNOW TO BE WRONG Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel - 29 October 2005 |
| PENTAGON SAYS 26,000 IRAQIS KILLED OR WOUNDED SINCE JAN. 2004 Associated Press - 29 October 2005 |
| BELL TOLLS FOR SLAIN IRAQIS Marin Independent-Journal - 28 October 2005 |
| WHEN BODY-COUNTS KILL Spiked-Online - 28 October 2005 |
| 'BUSH LIED, 2,000 DIED' Village Voice - 27 October 2005 |
| THE NUMBERS GUY Wall Street Journal Online - 27 October 2005 |
| IRAQ BY THE NUMBERS (Correspondence) Antiwar.com - 29 October 2005 |
| IRAQ BY THE NUMBERS Antiwar.com - 27 October 2005 |
| ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN OLD TOWN Pasadena Star-News - 27 October 2005 |
| TOLL OF IRAQ WAR GREATER THAN 2,000 DEAD North Jersey Herald - 27 October 2005 |
| TWO THOUSAND AND COUNTING Sydney Morning Herald - 27 October 2005 |
| SICK OF THE WAR? Media Monitors Network - 26 October 2005 |
| US DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ HITS 2,000 BBC - 26 October 2005 |
| COUNTING NATION'S LOSS, ONE BY ONE Newsday - 26 October 2005 |
| IRAQ'S WAR DEAD Alternet.org - 26 October 2005 |
| RISING CIVILIAN TOLL IS THE IRAQ WAR'S SILENT, SINISTER PULSE New York Times - 26 October 2005 |
| US TROOP TOLL IN IRAQ TOUCHES 2000 Aljazeera - 26 October 2005 |
| WHY THE NUMBERS? Minnesota Daily - 26 October 2005 |
| GRIM MILESTONES Guardian (newsblogs) - 26 October 2005 |
| SOME IRAQIS SYMPATHIZE WITH U.S. AS DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 2,000; OTHERS
NOTE HIGH IRAQI TOLL Associated Press - 26 October 2005 |
| U.S. MILITARY DEATHS REACH 2,000 IN IRAQ Associated Press - 25 October 2005 |
| IRAQI DEATH TOLL MUCH HIGHER THAN U.S. Associated Press - 25 October 2005 |
| GRIEVING IRAQ FAMILY SEES NO END TO "RIVERS OF BLOOD" Reuters - 23 October 2005 |
| INSURGENTS KILL 4,308 IRAQIS IN '05 -GOVT FIGURES Reuters - 22 October 2005 |
| ON NATIONAL COMMEMORATIONS IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE Counterpunch - 19 October 2005 |
| SUICIDE CAR BOMBING KILLS 9 IN IRAQ Associated Press - 15 October 2005 |
| IRAQ: THE COST OF QUAGMIRE Political Affairs - 14 October 2005 |
| IRAQ MORTALITY Milan Rai (Iraqmortality.org) - 14 October 2005 |
| IRAQ: THE COST OF QUAGMIRE PoliticalAffairs.net - 14 October 2005 |
| RIGHTS GROUPS TAKE AIM AT MILITANTS FOR INDISCRIMINATE KILLING IN IRAQ,
PALESTINE OneWorld US - 06 October 2005 |
| 25,000 IRAQIS KILLED SINCE U.S. INVASION, GROUP SAYS Azzaman (Iraq) - 02 October 2005 |
| HOW IRAQ'S DEAD WERE COUNTED Socialist Worker - 01 October 2005 |
| HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE IN IRAQ? Village Voice - 27 September 2005 |
| STUDENTS JOIN IN ANTIWAR PROTESTS The Hoya (Georgetown Uni.) - 27 September 2005 |
| A SURREAL DAY IN IRAQ Daily Mail - 20 September 2005 |
| BALANCING LIBERTIES AND SECURITY Cavalier Daily - 12 September 2005 |
| BODY COUNT TREATY Tennessee Independent Media Center - 12 September 2005 |
| WAR ON TERROR CONTINUES, BUT AT WHAT COST TO IRAQIS? Daily Herald - 11 September 2005 |
| REMEMBERING A NON-VIOLENT 9/11 Bangkok Post - 09 September 2005 |
| A GRIM CHRONICLE The Economist (book review) - 01 September 2005 |
| US AIR STRIKES KILL 56, SUNNIS PROTEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION Prensa Latina - 30 August 2005 |
| FOR IRAQ, TALK IS THE ONLY WAY (Leader) New Statesman - 29 August 2005 |
| IN IRAQ, THE GRIM REAPER CREEPS CLOSER Editor & Publisher - 26 August 2005 |
| FALSE INFORMATION LEADS TO LACK OF WAR SUPPORT Purdue Exponent - 24 August 2005 |
| DOES IT MATTER IF YOU CALL IT A CIVIL WAR? Christian Science Monitor - 22 August 2005 |
| SURVEY COUNTS 25,000 CIVILIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ CTV.ca - 19 July 2005 |
| REAPING WHAT THEY SOW New Straits Times - 07 August |
| COUNTING THE CIVILIAN DEAD IN IRAQ Wall Street Journal - 05 August |
| DEATH, DEMOCRACY Detroit Free Press - 03 August |
| AMERICANS, WORLD MUSLIMS, NEED TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER The Day (New London) - 02 August |
| DEMAND THAT JOHNNY COME HOME Counterpunch.org - 02 August |
| COUNTING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES American Journalism Review - August/September |
| COUNTING THE DEAD. THE IRAQ BODY COUNT. Three Monkeys Online - July 2005 |
| INFORMATION GAP HELPS FUEL ANTI-AMERICANISM Knight Ridder - 31 July |
| GLOBAL ANIMOSITY TOWARD U.S. RISES AS IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL INCREASES Contra Costa Times - 31 July |
| HIGH COST OF WAR IN IRAQ North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - 31 July |
| IRAQ'S CITIZENS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW The Lancet - 30 July |
| NEW CALLS FOR COALITION FORCES TO COUNT IRAQI CASUALTIES OneWorld.net - 29 July |
| A GROUP OF BLOODSTAINED FIGURES People's Daily Online - 29 July |
| SCOTT LIPSCOMB ON IRAQ BODY COUNT Counterspin / FAIR.org - 29 July |
| THE WEEK IN REVIEW Cairo Magazine - 28 July |
| TARGETED KILLING IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER The New Vision - 27 July |
| THE VICTIM AND THE KILLER Salon.com - 27 July |
| HONEST APPRAISAL, PLEASE Ventura County Star - 26 July |
| IRAQ BODY FRAUD National Review Online - 26 July |
| BAD COUNTS National Review Online - 26 July |
| WASHINGTON’S LOGIC EMBOLDENS TERRORISM Asia Times - 26 July |
| STUDY DOCUMENTS US-INFLICTED CARNAGE ON IRAQI PEOPLE World Socialist Web Site - 26 July |
| LIVE: TONY BLAIR'S PRESS BRIEFING Guardian - 26 July |
| COUNTING THE CASUALTIES OF WAR Chicago Tribune - 25 July |
| THE POLITICS OF DELUSION New Statesman (London) - 25 July |
| 25,000 IRAQIS SACRIFICED FOR DEMOCRACY North Jersey Media Group - 25 July |
| THERE IS ALWAYS LOVE MetroWest Daily News - 24 July |
| IRAQ DEATH TOLL Duluth News Tribune - 24 July |
| 25 000 CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN IRAQ SINCE INVASION British Medical Journal - 23 July |
| READERS RESPOND TO OUR WEB COVERAGE ON THE CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ Online Mail Call (Newsweek readers' letters) - 29 July |
| TRUTH IS THE FIRST CIVILIAN CASUALTY Newsweek (Web) - 23 July |
| EVERY DEATH ADDS FUEL TO IRAQI FLAMES (BY THE LATE ROBIN COOK) Scotsman - 23 July |
| REALITY CHECK: UK-US STATE TERRORISM & GLOBAL TERROR Media Monitors Network - 23 July |
| IRAQI COFFIN-MAKERS YEARN FOR PEACE Agence France-Presse - 23 July |
| IRAKS SCHWERE SUCHE NACH DER WAHRHEIT (IN GERMAN) Die Tageszeitung - 23 July |
| OFF THE RECORD Oroville Mercury-Register - 23 July |
| ANOTHER BAD WEEK FOR IRAQ BENCHMARKS UPI - 22 July |
| IRAQ: THE HUMAN TRAGEDY Daily Mirror - 21 July |
| IRAQ: THE HUMAN TRAGEDY REPORT REVEALS HORRIFIC CIVILIAN TOLL IN WAR Daily Mirror - 21 July |
| IRAQ IN THE MIRROR OF FALLUJAH openDemocracy.org - 21 July |
| IRAQI DEATHS (follow-up 3) Times (London) - 06 August |
| IRAQI DEATHS (follow-up 2) Times (London) - 02 August |
| DEATH TOLL OF IRAQI CIVILIANS (follow-up to Times article below) Times (London) - 27 July |
| HOW NOT TO COUNT BODIES Times (London) - 21 July |
| IRAQ | WORSE—AND MAYBE BETTER The Economist - 21 July |
| DEATH IN IRAQ: DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL The Village Voice - 21 July |
| BODY COUNT Global Development Briefing - 21 July |
| CASUALTIES OF WAR Times Argus - 21 July |
| CIVILIAN VICTIMS Washington Post - 20 July |
| IRAQ BODY COUNT PUTS WAR'S TOLL AT 25,000 ABC News (Australia) - 20 July |
| REPORT TALLIES ALMOST 25,000 CIVILIANS SLAIN L.A.Times - 20 July |
| IRAQ CONSTITUTION BODY IN TURMOIL Reuters - 20 July |
| CIVILIAN TOLL IN IRAQ IS PLACED AT NEARLY 25,000 New York Times - 20 July |
| ESTIMATING CIVILIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ New York Times - 20 July |
| CONSERVATIVE SURVEY FINDS, ANALYZES 25,000 CIVILIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ The NewStandard - 20 July |
| THE TRUE COST FOR IRAQIS The Herald (Scotland) - 20 July |
| FIGHTING IN IRAQ 'HAS COST 25,000 CIVILIAN LIVES' Daily Telegraph - 20 July |
| NERVES STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT AS BAGHDAD CLINGS TO NORMAL LIFE Daily Telegraph - 20 July |
| IRAQ: SURVEY SHOWS NEARLY 25,000 CIVILIANS KILLED IN TWO YEARS Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - 20 July |
| OCCUPATION BEHIND 37% OF IRAQI DEATHS: REPORT IslamOnline - 20 July |
| SELECTED REPORTS International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative - 19 July |
| GROUP: 25,000 CIVILIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ Associated Press - 19 July |
| SURVEY: 25,000 CIVILIANS KILLED IN IRAQ WAR CNN - 19 July |
| 25,000 CIVILIANS KILLED SINCE IRAQ INVASION, SAYS REPORT The Guardian Online - 19 July |
| IRAQ WAR TAKES HEAVY TOLL ON CIVILIANS-SURVEY Reuters - 19 July |
| SURVEY SAYS 25,000 CIVILIANS KILLED IN IRAQ Financial Times - 19 July |
| IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATH REPORT ITN - 19 July |
| IRAQ'S CATALOGUE OF DEATH BBC - 19 July |
| '25,000 CIVILIANS' KILLED IN IRAQ BBC - 19 July |
| 25,000 IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED: REPORT Toronto Star - 19 July |
| DEATH AND CASUALTIES IN IRAQ – THANK GOD SOMEBODY IS DOING THE MATH Huffington Post - 19 July |
| IRAQ BODY COUNT DATA: KEY POINTS BBC - 19 July |
| SURVEY COUNTS 25,000 CIVILIAN DEATHS IN IRAQ CTV.ca - 19 July |
| DOSSIER OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES 2003-5: IRAQ BODY COUNT Social Science Information Gateway - 19 July |
| REPORT ESTIMATES 25,000 IRAQI CIVILIANS HAVE DIED SINCE INVASION Times (London) - 19 July |
| ALMOST 25,000 CIVILIANS KILLED IN IRAQ IN TWO YEARS: STUDY Agence France-Presse - 19 July |
| THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS KILLED Sky News - 19 July |
| OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN IRAQ Philadelphia Inquirer - 15 May |
| TALLY OF CIVILIAN DEATHS DEPENDS ON WHO'S COUNTING San Francisco Chronicle - 12 May |
| POLITICS & POLICIES: DIVIDE IRAQ? UPI - 11 May |
| THE OCCUPATION GETS MORE SADDAM-LIKE EVERYDAY Counterpunch - 10 May |
| U.S. DEATHS IN IRAQ SURPASS 1,600 CNN - 09 May |
| WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? USA Today - 04 May |
| EDITORIAL: THE BEST FACE OF AMERICA Capital Times - 04 May |
| U.S. SEEN AS UNACCOUNTABLE IN IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS Reuters - 03 May |
| 2 YEARS AFTER 'WAR,' IRAQ STILL CRIPPLED BY VIOLENCE Agence France-Presse - 30 April |
| IRAQ'S END TO OPTIMISM Open Democracy - 28 April |
| TERRIFIED US SOLDIERS ARE STILL KILLING CIVILIANS WITH IMPUNITY, WHILE
THE DEAD GO UNCOUNTED The Independent - 24 April |
| COUNTING THE DEAD IN IRAQ Socialist Worker - 23 April |
| BALANCING THE IRAQ EQUATION Inter Press Service - 22 April |
| MARLA RUZICKA'S LIFE AND DEATH DREW ATTENTION TO IRAQ ISSUES Philadelphia Inquirer - 20 April |
| AID WORKER UNCOVERED AMERICA'S SECRET TALLY OF IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS The Independent - 20 April |
| WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING Cavalier Daily - 15 April |
| IRAQ: BRITISH MILITARY STATISTICS SHED LIGHT ON WAR DEATHS Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - 13 April |
| THE COST OF THE IRAQI CONFLICT Daily Collegian - 12 April |
| COUNTING IRAQ'S DEAD: TWO YEARS ON Islam Online Live Dialogue with IBC's John Sloboda - 09 April |
| ARE BUSH & CO. WAR CRIMINALS? The Georgia Straight - 07 April |
| IRAQ INSURGENCY HAS KILLED 6,000 CIVILIANS Reuters - 05 April |
| THE MORAL OF IRAQ Watching the Watchers - 31 March |
| HUMAN TOLL UNDERSTATED Press & Sun Bulletin - 30 March (letter) |
| IRAQ WAR'S 2ND ANNIVERSARY NOTED Connection Newspspers - 24 March |
| WAR STILL HAS VARIED EFFECTS ON CAMPUS UCLA Daily Bruin - 21 March |
| CRIME AS LETHAL AS WARFARE IN IRAQ Los Angeles Times - 20 March |
| TWO YEARS LATER Hudson Reporter - 19 March |
| IRAQ INSECURITY RIFE TWO YEARS AFTER INVASION Agence France-Presse - 19 March |
| '19,000 CIVILIANS DIED IN IRAQ WITHIN THE LAST TWO YEARS' Zaman Online - 18 March |
| MARKING WAR WITH PRAYER, PROTEST Wisconsin State Journal - 18 March |
| COUNTING THE DEAD IN IRAQ Sydney Morning Herald - 16 March (Australian parliamentary speech) |
| IRAQ DEATH POLICY 'IRRESPONSIBLE' BBC - 11 March |
| UK AND U.S. RAPPED OVER IRAQI DEAD COUNT Reuters - 11 March |
| EYES WIDE OPEN (archived at Archive.org) PNN Online - 10 March |
| 'EYES WIDE OPEN' BRINGS WAR INTO FOCUS San Diego Union-Tribune - 10 March |
| ITALIAN CHECKPOINT DEATH STIRS SAFETY DEBATE PBS - 09 March |
| AND THEY WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Seacoast Online - 04 March |
| CASUALTIES IN THE IRAQ WAR CBC - 03 March |
| US DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ REACHES 1,500 The Times - 03 March |
| PEACE MOVEMENT GEARS UP FOR GLOBAL PROTESTS ON WAR ANNIVERSARY Inter Press Service - 24 February |
| CRITICS ARE WILLING IRAQ TO FAIL Sydney Morning Herald - 24 February |
| PEACE EXHIBIT COMING TO GRAPE DAY PARK North County Times - 21 February |
| GRIEVING FOR THE VICTIMS OF WAR Berkshire Eagle - 14 February |
| DRESDEN: 60 YEARS AGO, AERIAL BOMBING BECAME GRISLY FACT OF MODERN WARFARE Stars and Stripes - 14 February |
| SHIITES WIN RESOUNDING VICTORY IN IRAQ'S LANDMARK ELECTION Agence France-Presse - 13 February |
| IRAQ TRAPPED IN A TERRIBLE VICE BETWEEN RUTHLESS INSURGENTS AND UNLOVED
OCCUPIERS Guardian - 12 February |
| PANEL DISCUSSES IRAQ WAR Stanford Daily - 07 February |
| IRAQ: BRITONS WANT IRAQI CASUALTY INVESTIGATION Noticias.info - 06 February (MORI poll results) |
| MAJORITY BACK IRAQI TOLL INQUIRY Reuters - 02 February |
| 'I AM LEFT IN MISERY – AND NOW I SHOULD GO AND VOTE. WHY? FOR MY RUINED
HOUSE? FOR MY DEAD SON?' Sunday Telegraph - 30 January |
| CROSS-NATIONAL COMMEMORATION IN THE IRAQ WAR The Polynational War Memorial - 28 January |
| COUNTING THE DEAD - THE IRAQ BODY COUNT PROJECT The Polynational War Memorial - 28 January |
| IS THE WORLD SAFER NOW? The Independent - 28 January |
| A TURNING-POINT FOR IRAQ, FOR BETTER OR WORSE Economist - 28 January |
| FIGHTER PILOT Straight.com - 27 January |
| RESEARCHERS WHO RUSHED INTO PRINT A STUDY OF IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS NOW
WONDER WHY IT WAS IGNORED Chronicle of Higher Education - 27 January |
| U.S. MARINE, IRAQI SOLDIER DIE, U.S. SAYS; AP PUTS TOLL AT 11 Bloomberg - 27 January |
| CIVILIAN DEATHS 'REACHING 10,000' Daily Telegraph - 27 January |
| A FANTASY OF FREEDOM Guardian - 24 January |
| IRAQI DEATHS DRAW SCANT COVERAGE Palm Beach Post - 23 January |
| COMMENTARY: FACING UP TO TRAGEDY Albuquerque Tribune - 20 January |
| PRESIDENT BUSH NO KING Arizona Daily Wildcat - 19 January |
| TELLER IRAKS KRIGSOFRE Morgenbladet (Norway) - 14-20 January |
| IRAQI POLICE CASUALTIES OVER 1,000 UPI - 11 January |
| THE RISING NUMBERS OF DEAD IN BUSH'S LOST WAR The Washington Dispatch - 03 January |
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