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Monday, March 24, 2003

# Posted 10:58 AM by Ariel David Adesnik  

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES: CNN reports that
The Australian navy has been working with the United States to clear Umm Qasr in preparation for humanitarian aid shipments, the commander of Australian forces in the Middle East said Monday.
This development is extremely important. Both an in-house UN study and numerous humanitarian NGOs expect that an invasion of Iraq will result in 100,000-400,000 civlian casualties. However, a critical premise on which this report is based is that the port facilities at Umm Qasr will be disabled, preventing shipments of aid.

While it is still far to early to draw definitive conclusions about civilian casualty counts, we are beginning to see that the UN and NGO projections are nothing more than irresponsible speculations influenced by anti-war prejudice. In short, this is a replay of what happened during the invasion of Afghanistan.
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