The mathematics of the Imperialist butchers’ terrorism
Article of the Communist League of Brazil published in the Socialist Fight # 7
Article of the Communist League of Brazil published in the Socialist Fight # 7
On September 11, 2001 less than 3000 people died in the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. According to the Unknown News site, which provides a detailed statistical number of deaths in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 919,967 people were killed between civilians and military in both countries since the invasion and occupied first by the imperialist coalition from 2001 until August 2010. During the same period, the site records that 1,739,547 people injured in the two countries. In Iraq alone the death toll is 900,338. http://www.unknownnews.org/casualties.html.
The Iraq Body Count, which uses a different methodology, which counts only the deaths of civilians in Iraq that are recorded in newspapers or on TV, has much more conservative numbers: 111,937 civilians were killed in Iraq alone. In a country ravaged by daily violence, it seems unlikely that the report of every man, woman and child dead - or even most Iraqi deaths - were mentioned in the media of that country.

