TagsTagsDespite the report from Italian newspaper Corriere della sera, Israeli officials are standing by their estimate of 1300 Palestinian casualties in Operation Cast Lead, mostly Hamas fighters. Despite a report by Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy’s Corriere della sera, that the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Casualties
The casualty numbers pushed out by Hamas—and reported uncritically by the mainstream media—are beginning to deflate: Gazan doctor says death toll inflated. Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported Thursday that a doctor working in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital claimed that Hamas has intentionally inflated the number of casualties resulting from Israel’s ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Casualties
In 2006, British medical journal The Lancet released a study of Iraqi civilian casualties that ludicrously claimed more than 650,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war. This absurd number instantly became a mantra of the anti-war left, of course, who could not have cared less whether it was ...
The military experts at Daily Kos have figured out why there’s been such a dramatic drop in violence in Iraq, and of course it has nothing to do with the surge or with a change in US tactics: Daily Kos: The Real Story Behind the Falling Casualty Rate in Iraq. Long ...
You’d never know it from the mainstream media, but US troop casualties are decreasing rapidly in Iraq—and the infamous “Ramadan spike” has gone missing. This year, for the first time since our troops have been in Iraq, the Ramadan Spike has failed to materialize. Few events in Iraq were as ...
US-led forces kill top al-Qaida leader. WASHINGTON - U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday. Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the ...
In the race to see who can trumpet the most absurdly inflated claim of civilian deaths in Iraq, the idiot known as “Meteor Blades” at Daily Kos comes up a winner: Daily Kos: One Million-Plus Violent Iraqi Deaths (So Far). That’s right. They’re claiming 1.2 million deaths now. And it’s based ...
Remember the study released last year by British medical journal The Lancet that ludicrously claimed more than 650,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the Iraq War? The study that was seized upon by “anti-war” groups, and is now cited as fact and repeated endlessly in the propaganda from ...