Responses to the 'Lancet Report' on Post-Invasion Mortality in Iraq (Nov 2004)

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:15:20 -0500

Source: Iraq Analysis Group
November, 2004

Responses to the 'Lancet Report' on Post-Invasion Mortality in Iraq -PDF (Nov 2004)

On 29 October, the Lancet, an eminent British medical journal, published a study by a team of researchers from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health entitled "Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq" The authors concluded that

"making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

The full report is available for download (pdf file).

Iraq Analysis Group Briefing: the Lancet Iraq mortality survey -- the UK government's response is unjustified and disingenuous (20 Nov 2004)

On 17 November 2004, the UK Foreign Secretary produced a written ministerial statement response to the article Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey published in the Lancet on 29 October 2004. The ministerial statement dismissed mortality estimates produced by the Lancet survey. This briefing argues that this dismissal largely unjustified, and parts disingenuous.
Iraq Analysis Group Briefing: the Lancet Iraq mortality survey -- the Prime Minister's response is inaccurate and misleading (01 Nov 2004)

This is our previous response to the statement by the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman about the Lancet study
Information sources page about the report

Iraq Mortality - Iraq Analysis Group

Responses to the 'Lancet Report' on Post-Invasion Mortality in Iraq (Nov 2004)