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> I'd appreciate assistance on these two questions: > (1) confirmed reports on the number of Iraqis killed by the > "desert fox" 1998 bombing > (2) the specific name and reference for the Hans von Sponeck > report outlining the casualties from US bombing over the so-called > "no-fly zones" in 1999 Hi Rania and others, 1. I've never seen reliable casualty estimates from "Desert Fox". Throughout 1998, critics of the US/UK repeated threats to bomb referred to a Pentagon "medium scenario" estimate that bombing would kill 10,000 civilians. I do not remember when that estimate was developed; it may have been developed prior to the 1991 bombing. I have seen no suggestion that actual casualties were anywhere near this figure. In general, the problem with "confirmed reports" is that only the Iraqi government is in a position to produce such reports. 2. There were at least two of these reports. The first of them is available at http://www.casi.org.uk/info/undocs/airstrikes1.html. I do not know of an electronic version of the second yet. Colin Rowat work | Room 406, Department of Economics | The University of Birmingham | Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK | 0121 414 3754 | c.rowat@bham.ac.uk personal | 07768 056 984 (UK mobile) | (917) 517 5840 (USA mobile) | (707) 221 3672 (US fax) | colinrowat@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.