Afghan civilian death toll

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday August 10, 2002 20:07 by mohock - none

Between 3,125 and 3,620 Afghans were killed between October and July

In recent weeks there have been articles appearing to suggest that the death toll of civilians in Afghan was in the low hundreds.These articles were never backed up with detail or method of collection of data.There is however an authoritive report by a US academician,Marc Herold which is well researched with full methodolgy which give the above total of civilian deaths.The article by Prof.Herold is from The Guardian August 8 and also details on the above links. It is important to debunk the myth of accurate 'smart weapons' which will be recycled by the mainstream media in the current pyscho ops. to prepare for US invasion of Iraq.