[NV Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Is the Defense Dept. underreporting the number of US troops killed in Iraq? (Brian Harring, TBRNews)

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>US Military Report: The High Death Rates exposed
>by Brian Harring
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>TBRNews.org
>http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1654.htm
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>The Bush Butcher’s Bill: Officially, 40 US
>Military Deaths in Iraq from 1 through 11 May,
>2005 – Official Total of 1,791 US Dead to date
>(and rising)
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>U.S. Military Personnel who died in German
>hospitals or en route to German hospitals have
>not previously been counted. They total about
>6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing,
>underreporting of the dead in Iraq, is not
>accurate. The DoD is deliberately reducing the
>figures. A review of many foreign news sites show
>that actual deaths are far higher than the newly
>reduced ones.  Iraqi civilian casualties are
>never reported but International Red Cross, Red
>Crescent and UN figures indicate that as of 1
>January 2005, the numbers are just under 100,000.
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>by Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter
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>Note: There is excellent reason to believe that
>the Department of Defense is deliberately not
>reporting a significant number of the dead in
>Iraq. We have received copies of  manifests from
>the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into
>Dover AFP than are reported officially. The
>educated rumor is that the actual death toll is
>in excess of 7,000. Given the officially
>acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously
>wounded, this elevated death toll is far more
>realistic than the current 1,400+ now being
>officially published. When our research is
>complete, and watertight, we will publish the
>results along with the sources In addition to the
>evident falsification of the death rolls, at
>least 5,500 American military personnel have
>deserted, most in Ireland but more have escaped
>to Canada and other European countries, none of
>whom are inclined to cooperate with vengeful
>American authorities. (See TBR News of 18
>February for full coverage on the mass
>desertions) This means that of the 158,000 U.S.
>military shipped to Iraq, 26,000  either
>deserted, were killed or seriously wounded. The
>DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated
>indicate almost 9,000 dead, over 16,000 seriously
>wounded* (See note below. This figure is now over
>24,000 Ed) and a large number of suicides, forced
>hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales,
>murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers ,
>rapes, courts martial and so on –
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>Because I cannot publish the DoD pdf file in this
>country (no one has said anything about it being
>published outside the country) I am working up a
>specific overview for posting and my lawyer has
>made the following suggestion for me. I think
>it’s good and it certainly is legal.
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>I have a copy of the official DoD casualty list.
>I am alphabetizing it with the reported date of
>death following. TBR will post this list in
>sections and when this is circulated widely by
>veteran groups and other concerned sites, if
>people who do not see their loved one’s names,
>are requested to inform their Congressman, their
>local paper, us and other concerned people as
>soon as possible.
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>The government gets away with these huge lies
>because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers
>actually killed on the ground in Iraq are
>reported. The dying and critically wounded are
>listed as en route to military hospitals outside
>of the country and not reported on the daily
>postings. Anyone who dies just as the transport
>takes off from the Baghdad airport is not listed
>and neither are those who die in the US  military
>hospitals. Their families are certainly notified
>that their son, husband, brother or lover was
>dead and the bodies, or what is left of them
>(refrigeration is very bad in Iraq what with
>constant power outages) are shipped home, to
>Dover AFB. You ought to realize that President
>Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken
>of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any
>circumstances. He claims that this is to comfort
>the bereaved relatives but is designed to keep
>the huge number of arriving bodies secret. Any
>civilian, or military personnel, taking pictures
>will be jailed at once and prosecuted. Bush has
>never attended any kind of a memorial service for
>his dead soldiers and never will. He is terrified
>some parent might curse him in front of the press
>or, worse, attack him. As Bush is a coward and in
>denial, this is not a surprise.
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>The Full, Official Casualty list, Alphabetized
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>This is a fully alphabetized list of the official
>number of American dead in Iraq from the
>beginning of the Iraqi war through June 6, 2005.
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>There are many more deaths that have not appeared
>on the official lists because the DoD has taken
>the tricky tack of loading dying and probable
>fatalities onto aircraft and flying them out of
>Iraq to bases and hospitals outside of that
>country. So, if a GI is dying or has every
>expectation of dying, he or she is loaded on an
>aircraft and their subsequent deaths are not
>publicly reported as “Combat Deaths.” Of course
>the families or survivors are certainly notified
>of the death but the public is not.
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>The purpose of publishing this alphabetical name
>list (which I will update monthly) is to
>encourage the families and friends of survivors
>to contact up with the names of these unreported
>casualties.
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>We suggest supplying the name, rank and unit of
>the individual as well as contact information for
>verification.
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>We have encountered serious objections to our
>publishing the original DoD pdf file that lists
>the actual dead, injured, deserters and so on so
>we are getting around this by publishing the
>original cover page and then reformatting the
>information contained inside the cover.
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>Because there are over a hundred pages of the
>dead alone, this project will take some time
>because I am doing it myself, without any
>assistance and please do not volunteer to assist
>me.
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>Brian Harring
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>Alphabetical List Click Here
>http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/list.htm
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>New questions raised on US military casualty
>count: 
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>American war widow suspects more than one
>person’s ashes are listed as belonging to her
>husband.
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>Among the 31 American troops killed when the
>Iraqi Resistance shot down a helicopter near
>ar-Rutbah in western Iraq on 26 January 2005 was
>US Marine First Lieutenant Dustin Shumney of the
>town of Mesquite in Texas. (For coverage of the
>downing of the helicopter, see “Iraqi Resistance
>shoots down US helicopter, killing 31 Marines
>near ar-Rutbah” in the Iraqi Resistance Report
>for Wednesday, 26 January 2005.) In February
>Julie Shumney, the Lieutenant’s widow, received a
>shipment of her husband’s ashes, which she
>solemnly laid to rest as his last remains.
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>But then, as The Dallas Morning News reported on
>Saturday, 11 June 2005, Mrs. Shumney was stunned
>to receive a telephone call in May, informing her
>that a second, 80-pound portion of her husband’s
>body was being shipped to her. It turned out that
>the combined sets of ashes were too much to fit
>into a 400-cubic-inch double urn, a
>standard-sized vessel designed to hold the
>remains to two adult individuals. This has led
>Mrs. Shumney to believe that the remains now in
>her possession might in fact be those of more
>than one soldier. “They swear that only Dustin’s
>DNA is coming up in these remains, and there’s no
>way,” she told The Dallas Morning News. “There’s
>something that’s just not right about this
>picture,” the Dallas paper quoted her as saying.
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>The Dallas Morning News reported a spokeswoman
>for the American Armed Forces Institute of
>Pathology as saying that remains from all 31
>personnel killed in the crash had been identified
>and sent to their respective families. A
>spokeswoman at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware
>said that only Lieutenant Shumney’s remains had
>been sent to his wife.
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>Still unconvinced, and concerned lest the remains
>of another soldier not be sent to his own family,
>Mrs. Shumney said she is hoping to have a medical
>examiner test bits of bone in the ashes in her
>possession to see if the DNA of other soldiers
>might show up.
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>The success of such testing is very much in
>doubt, however, given the difficulty involved in
>trying to extract DNA from bone even under normal
>conditions, and in particular since DNA denatures
>in the presence of heat and all the bone
>fragments amongst the ashes had been cremated at
>high temperature.
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand