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Cuban news agency: true number of US dead in Iraq more than double off

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Cuban news agency: true number of US dead in Iraq more than double official figure. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported on Thursday that official US reports on Iraq reflect less than half the numbers of soldiers killed in that war of aggression, according to an article published that day by El Diario-La Prensa online in New York. An article datelined San Juan, Puerto Rico, says that troops under the US command have suffered at least 4,076 fatal casualties over 799 days of action. The information markedly contrasts with reports published by the authorities in Washington, which focus on the fallen wearing US uniforms, which totals 1,649, the article notes. It refers to the difficulties encountered by the Puerto Rican government in obtaining a figure of total Puerto Rican casualties during the present war. Even more difficult are estimates of the wounded, which the U.S. acknowledges are in excess of 12,600 troops, and the so-called medical casualties, about which only scraps of information emerge. Congressman José Serrano, a New York Democrat, and Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, former colonial governor of Puerto Rico, managed to obtain a partial list enabling them to establish that almost 200 casualties of troops just from the small island of Puerto Rico, a colonial territory of the US, occurred last year, between dead and wounded. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported on Thursday that official US reports on Iraq reflect less than half the numbers of soldiers killed in that war of aggression, according to an article published that day by El Diario-La Prensa online in New York. An article datelined San Juan, Puerto Rico, says that troops under the US command have suffered at least 4,076 fatal casualties over 799 days of action. The information markedly contrasts with reports published by the authorities in Washington, which focus on the fallen wearing US uniforms, which totals 1,649, the article notes. It refers to the difficulties encountered by the Puerto Rican government in obtaining a figure of total Puerto Rican casualties during the present war. Even more difficult are estimates of the wounded, which the U.S. acknowledges are in excess of 12,600 troops, and the so-called medical casualties, about which only scraps of information emerge. Congressman José Serrano, a New York Democrat, and Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, former colonial governor of Puerto Rico, managed to obtain a partial list enabling them to establish that almost 200 casualties of troops just from the small island of Puerto Rico, a colonial territory of the US, occurred last year, between dead and wounded. (quoted in Iraqi Resistance Reports) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- whiteaglesoaring writes: "This follows Joe Vialls report, 11 February 2004 1,188 Americans Killed in Iraq - Your Son Will be Next, that: According to a well-placed Pentagon source, the White House and corporate media are reporting less than half the actual American military deaths in Iraq. As of 3 February 2004, the 'official' media total stood at 528, while the real total at midnight on the same day was 1,188. ....The Pentagon officer explained it like this. "If a soldier is completely dismembered by a bomb, then he is dead. Likewise, if a soldier is hit by a full burst of machine-gun fire, then he also is dead. The problems start when the medic [on the ground] is not quite sure whether the injured soldier is dead or not. We all like to save life if possible, so if the medic believes there is the faintest glimmer of hope, the injured soldier is sent immediately to the nearest [medical] aid station." The split-second that soldier is removed from contact [wherever the incident took place], he is officially listed as 'wounded', regardless of whether he then dies 3 seconds or minutes or hours or days or months later, as a direct result of injuries sustained in the contact. Deaths in transit to the US, or after soldiers return home are also excluded completely, or become 'accidental deaths'. This is how Wolfowitz and his people massage the figures, and how the American public is misled." Since we know that the Pentagon is lying as a matter of policy, it is clear that we should double the casualty figures automatically, if not more." --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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