The family of an Iraqi civilian killed by shrapnel when a missile hit their home looks at the unspent mortars left by the retreating Iraqi army near their home in Basra, Iraq. (AP)
The Uncounted Toll: Iraq's Civilian Deaths Story aired: Monday, November 01, 2004
The British medical journal The Lancet on Friday published a new study which finds that the death toll of civilians in Iraq since the start of the U.S.-led invasion may be more than 100,000.
The Pentagon says it does not keep count of civilian death tolls in wartime. But other independent estimates have put the number much lower, from 10,000 to 17,000.
The study comes out on the final days of the presidential campaign --and that's the point, says Les Roberts. He led the team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and from the Al-Mustansiriya University Medical School in Baghdad that conducted the study.
