One more calculation: according to the statistics for Falluja, 33 people died from violent deaths out of the one cluster sampled in Falluja in August and September. This would mean that there were more than 100,000 deaths in Falluja in those two months.and the people doing the study didn't blink.
<quote> In our Falluja sample, we recorded 53 deaths when only 1�4 were expected under the national pre-war rate. This indicates a point estimate of about 200 000 excess deaths in the 3% of Iraq represented by this cluster. <end quote> The population of Falluja is 250,000. Even if a quarter of the deaths were outside Falluja proper, that would mean that half the population was killed since the US invasion, and rougly a third died violently in August and September...when the conflict between the US and the insurgents was relatively low key. 100,000 deaths by violence in two months, in a limited area, is not something that is even close to easy to miss. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
