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The Uncounted
To understand how radically different our assessment is from the coalition’s own, consider this: According to the coalition’s available data, 89 of its more than 14,000 airstrikes in Iraq have resulted in civilian deaths, or about one of every 157 strikes. The rate we found on the ground — one out of every five — is 31 times as high.
The article is lengthy but I would encourage everyone to read the entirety of it as it details methods of American/coalition reckoning of casualties, compared to on the ground surveys. It also recounts in some detail the tragic case of a family who had lived in the US for 8 years but who were targeted by mistake by coalition forces.
Even if you account for a fair amount of error in the methodology used to calculate the rate which is 31 times as high, it seems pretty clear that there are many unreported civilian casualties, and some of these are even misrepresented as ISIS casualties.
To understand how radically different our assessment is from the coalition’s own, consider this: According to the coalition’s available data, 89 of its more than 14,000 airstrikes in Iraq have resulted in civilian deaths, or about one of every 157 strikes. The rate we found on the ground — one out of every five — is 31 times as high.
The article is lengthy but I would encourage everyone to read the entirety of it as it details methods of American/coalition reckoning of casualties, compared to on the ground surveys. It also recounts in some detail the tragic case of a family who had lived in the US for 8 years but who were targeted by mistake by coalition forces.
Even if you account for a fair amount of error in the methodology used to calculate the rate which is 31 times as high, it seems pretty clear that there are many unreported civilian casualties, and some of these are even misrepresented as ISIS casualties.
