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iCasualties.org, formally the Iraq
Coalition Casualty Count,[1]
is an independent website
created in May 2003 by Michael White, a software
engineer from Stone Mountain, Georgia, to track casualties in
the Afganastan War and Iraq War.[2]
The website compiles information on casualties incurred by the
Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq and the International
Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan using news reports and press
releases from the U.S.
Department of Defense, CENTCOM, the MNF, and the British Ministry of
Defence. The project has grown in scope since its conception,
and now also provides fatality counts for contractors, Iraqi security forces (since January 2005), and
Iraqi civilians (since March 2005).
The website is considered an "authoritative" record of MNF
casualties in Iraq[3] and has
been cited by, among others, the BBC, the Associated Press, Voice of
America, The New York Times, and The
Washington Post.[1][4]
White has stated that it costs him $500 per month to maintain
the web site, and he will continue to maintain it as long as he can
continue to raise the money necessary to cover the costs.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a
b
Varela, Anna (2005-10-17). "A somber tally in Iraq".
The
Palm Beach Post. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/shared/news/world/stories/10/1017_COXIRAQ_CASUALTIES.html. Retrieved
2007-05-29.
- ^
Bigg, Matthew (2006-12-28). ""Joe Blow" keeps track of
Iraq war dead". Reuters
(via AlertNet). http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22278688.htm. Retrieved
2008-05-02.
- ^
"US Military Struggles to
`defeat' IEDs". AP. 2007-08-20. http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146542,00.html. Retrieved
2008-05-02.
- ^
Trejos, Nancy (2007-01-01). "U.S. Toll In Iraq Reaches
3,000". The Washington Post:
p. A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100430_pf.html. Retrieved
2007-05-29.
- ^
Basu, Moni (November 30, 2009). "As a hobby, he counts the war
dead". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/30/keeper.of.death/index.html. Retrieved November 30,
2009.
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