> http://www.counterpunch.org/jensendead.html
>
> This article cites the professor in New
> Hampshire, and his figure as of December was over
> 3700 civilian deaths. The article also explains
> why this is a conservative estimate--it has to be
> for the sake of rigour in compiling the numbers.
Did you see what figure the author's cited as the most realistic? 5,000. Besides, Herold's "research" was less than useless-- he often just added together figures he found well surfing the net. I believe his estimate of 5,000 mirrors that of the Taliban.
> This also means that, officially, as far as I can
> tell, the US military has killed more civilians
> in Afghanistan than it has combatants, because
> the only figures I can find for the combatant
> category stops last November and only totals up
> to about 3000.
The number is much larger than that. I think more than a 1,000 former Taliban troops died while they were being transported by the Northern Alliance.
-- Luke