3,240 Civilian Deaths in Iraq
By NIKO PRICE
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- At least 3,240 civilians died across Iraq during a month of war, including 1,896 in Baghdad, according to
a five-week Associated Press investigation.
The count is still fragmentary, and the complete toll - if it is ever tallied - is sure to be significantly higher.
Even if hospital records were complete, they would not tell the full story. Many of the dead were never taken to hospitals, either
buried quickly by their families in accordance with Islamic custom, or lost under rubble.
The AP excluded all counts done by hospitals whose written records did not distinguish between civilian and military dead, which
means hundreds, possibly thousands, of victims in Iraq's largest cities and most intense battles aren't reflected in the total.
The great majority of civilian deaths appear to have been caused by American U.S. and British attacks
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In the 1991 Gulf War an estimated 2,278 civilians were killed,
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