Officials inspect the remains of a vehicle used in a bomb attack in Kut in August 2011. Reuters: Jaafer Abed
162,000 People Killed In Iraq War: NGO -- ABC News (Australia)
About 162,000 people, almost 80 per cent of them civilians, were killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led invasion up to last year's withdrawal of American forces, a British NGO says.
Iraq Body Count (IBC) warned that, contrary to apparent trends in figures released by the Iraqi government, the level of violence has changed little from mid-2009, though attacks are markedly down from when the country was in the throes of sectarian war in 2006 and 2007.
In all, the non-governmental organisation said an estimated 162,000 people were killed in Iraq in the nearly nine years of conflict.
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My Comment: Add in the wounded .... the legacy of Saddam Hussein and the Iraq war will probably take generations of Iraqis to get over.
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