The Wire

Latest figures from British website Iraqbodycount.com puts the number of Iraqi civilian war casualties at between 12 and 14 thousand. Unlike US soldiers these people remain unnamed unless their families can trace them – the US and the new Iraq government have no protocols in place to identify the dead. A ceremony in Chicago last week put names to 3000 of them. John Sloboda from Iraqbodycount says they and other groups are now pushing for official recognition from the US of victims either of ‘collateral damage’ or internal violence.