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COALITION CASUALTIES IN THE US WAR ON "TERRORISM"
AFGHANISTAN: THE REAL NUMBERS
From October 21,2001 To June 21,2002
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
US MILITARY DEATHS: 867
US MILITARY INJURED: 537
TOTAL US & COALITION DEATHS REPORTED: 968
TOTAL US & COALITION INJURED: 676
Jihad Unspun staff and researchers began tracking military casualties in the US war on "terrorism" campaign in Afghanistan from approximately 40 international news sources daily.
Although limited information on the extent of casualties suffered in Afghanistan by US and Coalition troops has appeared in main stream North American press, this has not been the case in other parts of the globe.
This report documents our research.
Source material has been gathered from mainstream and uncensored news sources.
Only those reports that could be verified in more than one source are included here.
When casualties or kills were listed as "several soldiers wounded" they were excluded.
As the counts come only from those that actually found there way into the press, we expect the actually figures to be as much as three times higher that those listed here.
What this report clearly shows is the censorship of the American media and the reports issued by the Pentagon.
Rena Golden, the executive vice-president and general manager of CNN International said at a Newsworld conference is Asia that US news organizations "censored" their coverage of the US campaign in Afghanistan in order to be in step with public opinion in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks was shaped by the level of public support that existed for US action.
This report is not to be misconstrued as an official casualty count as it shows only figures reported in the 40 daily news sources Jihad Unspun monitors however it should be noted that the totals concluded here are significantly higher than those presented by the media
within North America.
Although we can not conclude with 100% accuracy the validity of any news item, this report begins to show a broader picture of casualties as reported throughout the globe and helps us to put into perspective the human cost of this war.
The US & Coalition Casualties Report has been independently audited by TREK Technologies Inc., a third party market research firm, to add further validity to this work.
It should be noted that this research began after Operation Enduring Freedom in the mountains of Afghanistan and therefore is not a complete accounting from the beginning of the Afghan invasion.
In our first limited distribution of this report a few weeks ago, we received many inquiries from American citizens who questioned how these deaths could be hidden from the public.
As one General said "the first casualty of war is the truth" and casualties have been kept from the public in every war since WW1.
How? Missing In Action.
By the end of the Vietnam war there where some 70,000 MIA's, with only a small portion of those accounted for to this day.
We owe our understanding of the human cost of Vietnam to the families of soldiers who pressed for the declassification of documents and finally, years later, at least a portion of the truth was exposed.
This is standard war time procedure that lawmakers consider to be in the best interest of national security.
This conclusion that can be drawn from this report is that the deaths of both US and Coalition soldiers are significantly higher than the public is being made aware of and therefore the willingness to continue the America war effort to new theatres such as Iraq is being orchestrated under false pretenses.
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