Al Qaeda disputes US death toll in Iraq

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The number of invading troops killed in Iraq is at least 10 times higher than the published toll of 2,000, the Iraqi branch of the Al Qaeda terrorism network says.
"We are not exaggerating when we say that the number of deaths in the ranks of the crusader army is 10 times higher than the 2,000 announced in the pernicious media," the group said in a website statement.

"Their forces have encountered difficulties disposing of the corpses which they are burying in mass graves in the desert, throwing in the rivers, or incinerating." No evidence is offered for the claims.

Three US soldiers were killed on Saturday in two incidents in Iraq, the US military announced, as two more US servicemen were reported dead in neighbouring Kuwait. The latest deaths bring to 2,013 the number of US military personnel killed in the Iraq operation since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally.

That figure closely tallies with the official Pentagon count and the toll figures published by the independent Iraq Coalition Casualty Count website (icasualties.org) The Pentagon also lists more than 15,000 troops wounded since the start of the war.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1493858.htm

[Igel]

1. "They" said the same thing about the London bombings:

the reported 'terror in the north and in the south, in the east and in the west' wasn't intended as hyperbole. One site did say thousands were killed, and intended to have themselves taken seriously.

Which, of course, was pretty much impossible to do.

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2. al ciada is a west intell. front group

one way to squash runmours that the busheviks are lying about the numbers is to have al cia da claim a number near to the real number, causing mom and pop to thereafter poohpooh any number that's near the truth..... it's sorta ju jitsu applied to 'taking candy from a baby(the public)'.... when baby pulls on his lolipop, the cia pushes, when baby pushes, the cia pulls...result, baby gets wore out pushing/pulling w/out getting a lick in, and the cia steals the fucking lolipop from the now asleep baby!
damn them al cia dudes!

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3. the Amerikan public really won't awake to numbers until

the draft begins. Sorry but my cynical side is showing