- Note - Viewers of TBR News who would like a copy of the
original Department of Defense Supplemental Casualty lists from 2003 to
mid-2005, showing facsimiles of the actual casualties, as opposed to the
heavily redacted official listings, may write to Mr. Harring at brianharring@yahoo.com
for a full copy of the original documents. This list is free of charge.
As of October 10 ,2007, Mr. Harring has sent out29,108 lists. Mr. Harring
wishes his readers to note that he does not work for any American governmental
agency.
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- Once it became evident that what had been expected to
be a short, successful military campaign against Saddam Hussein had turned
into a long drawn out and escalating guerilla war, the Department of Defense,
acting on orders from the White House, began to reduce the daily public
casualty list. Families and survivors of the dead were duly notified and
the bodies were shipped back to the States for private burial but the numbers
of the dead, and the wounded, were deliberately kept as low as possible
for political reasons. For internal use only, a realistic, and accurate,
monthly report was issued for those concerned but it was not made public.
When this private report was located by outside sources and sent around
the Internet, the site was immediately shut down.
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- This original listing showed that as of mid-2005, the
death count in both Iraq and Afghanistan topped 10,000 with 20,000 seriously
wounded. By 2007, the death toll has risen to over 15,000 (and rising
daily) with officially reported serious woundings (required out of theater
hospitalization) at 50,508 as per a report published in the New York Times
of January 30, 2007. In addition there have been, to date, 27,046 military
victims of accidents and illness serious enough to require medical evacuation
,through June 30, 2007. The officially reported deaths does not include
116 suicides.
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- 1. Most soldiers are killed by increasingly deadly and
powerful bombs located beside or under a road.
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- 2. The effect of these powerful shaped charges on the
occupants of the vehicles is to dismember said occupants.
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- 3. When the shredded remains are finally identified,
by ID tags or DNA, the Department of Defense then notifies the next of
kin.
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- 4. The names of some of the dead are then posted on
the official website of the Department of Defense but the numbers of these
publicly posted dead are much smaller than the numbers of the actual dead.
The families are duly notified but not all names are made public.
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- Also not discussed are the over 19,000 desertions (from
March, 2003 to date) Pentagon officials say the number of desertions overall
has dropped since the war began in 2003. In that year, there were 6,729
desertions from the four military branches. In 2004, 4,494 people left.
In 2005, because of much stricter controls put in place by military authorities
and cooperative foreign governments, the figure was 3,921 and in 2006,
the figure rose again to 4,219. Figures for 2007 are not currently available.
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- The Bush-Cheney & Congressional Butchers' Bill
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- Officially 35 military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq
from 1 October to 20 October, 2007 with a total of 4,804 total official
casualties to date.
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- Note: It has been widely reported in the foreign media
that the phrase. "the incident (or death) is under investigation"
means that either the deceased was murdered by GIs ('fragging' and drug
gang killings are escalating there) or committed suicide. Ed
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- Official Casualty Lists for October, 2007 Note: The deaths
are officially reported to the public only after the families have been
notified. The dates of deaths are previous to the dates of reporting. September's
list was cut off early so that the media could report "greatly reduced
GI death tolls" and the redacted information was then added in October.
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- Juggling and misreporting figures is a standard hallmark
of both the DoD and the American media .
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- Official listings can be found at: http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/
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- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2774.htm
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