U.S. accused of reporting less than half its casualties in Iraq

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US Accused of reporting less than half it's casualties in Iraq !!

 

 

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/mayo/vier27/23bajas-i.html

 

U.S. accused of reporting less than half its casualties in Iraq

 

WASHINGTON, May 26 – Prensa Latina informs that official US reports on

Iraq reflect less than half the numbers of soldiers killed in that war

of aggression, according to an article 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 Puerto Rican

casualties occurred last year, between dead and wounded.