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• When the Facts Get Tough, the Tough Stop Fact-Gathering

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:29 pm

  Tags: Climate Crisis, Bush Administration, Baghdad, Infrastructure, Iraq, Civilian Casualties

  of those inconvenient Iraqi civilian deaths, doesn’t it? Military officials say they do not have precise figures or even estimates of the number of noncombatant Iraqis killed and wounded by American-led forces in Iraq. "We don't keep a list," said a Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell. "It's just not policy." It’s

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• Fred Hiatt on Why Air Strikes Are Wrong in Somalia but Good in Iraq

  Published: May 3, 2008, 7:12 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Civilian Casualties

  unacceptable amounts of civilian casualties, have led to a refugee crisis, and have served as a recruiting tool for terrorists. TOMAHAWK MISSILES fired by a U.S. Navy ship demolished a house in central Somalia on Thursday and killed a vicious militia leader and al-Qaeda operative. It was a victory for the Bush administration’s

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• Six-year-old girl killed by Israel tank fire in Gaza

  Published: June 11, 2008, 5:39 am

  Tags: Family, Israel, Fire, Health, Gaza, Dead, Girl, Launch, Border, World, Civilian, Casualties, House, Early, Hamas, Gunmen, Adult, Killed, Israeli, Area, Compound, Backyard, Associated, Identified, Hitting, Into, Decapitating, Hassanain, Hadeel, Al Smari

  Israli tank fire has killed a little girl in Gaza today, when a ground force attacked militants in the area attempting to fire rockets into Israel."An Israeli shell aimed at a group of militants in southern Gaza Strip slammed into a nearby house early Wednesday, decapitating...read more

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• More Regrettable Loss of Innocent Life

  Published: July 11, 2008, 10:34 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties

  way, you could ask, How many civilians can you kill before the value of their lives exceeds the value of the military objective? So they don’t so much “go to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties” (because it’s impossible to avoid civilian casualties when you’re dropping bombs from ten or twenty thousand feet up

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