World News 29-10-2004 who: Public Health scientist Dr Les Roberts what: Says 100,000 civilians have died since invasion where: Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: "Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US city of Baltimore gathered data on births and deaths since January 2002 from 33 clusters of 30 households each across Iraq," says the BBC. "They found the relative risk of death was two-and-a-half times higher for Iraqi civilians after the 2003 invasion than in the preceding 15 months." [... more]

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