In memory of those who have died in Iraq

In memory of those who have died in Iraq

No official organisation has collated the Iraqi dead. Here we list the 3,000 people known to have died - just one tenth of the most conservative estimates


Published: 20 March 2006

ATWAR BAHJAT

A prominent Iraqi journalist born of a Shia-Sunni mixed marriage, she was murdered along with two colleagues as they reported on the destruction of the al-Askariya shrine in Samarra in February. "She never talked about Kurds, Shias and Sunnis," said a colleague. "She always talked about Iraqis."

HAIFA AND SAAD AHMEN FUAD

The eight-year-old Haifa, her four-year-old brother, Saad, and their friend, six-year-old Muhammad Salih Ali, gathered around a burned Humvee in Ramadi after a blast had killed five US and two Iraqi soldiers in October 2005. A US F-15 fighter then jet fired on the crowd. The US military said it had killed 70 insurgents, and knew of no civilian deaths.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article352384.ece

And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it was even higher.