-- Luke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Ferro" <mferro at california.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Civilian Death Parity Day
> Today Is Civilian Death Parity Day
>
> According to Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire, as
reported this morning on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" radio program, the
American military has now killed as many Afghani civilians as the civilians
who were killed in New York in the WTC attacks on 9/11.
>
> Herold compiled his data starting in early October from a variety of
international sources. His data can be found at
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mherold/. He suggests that the 3700 to 5000 Afghani
civilian deaths should be compared, in Afghani terms (a country with roughly
1/10 the US population) to
> the 50,000 deaths of US soldiers during the Vietnam war.