• The Rising Costs of the Iraq War
• Policy Alternatives in Iraq
• Fire Bombs in Iraq
• Denial of Water to Iraqi Cities
• Responses to the 'Lancet Report' on Post-Invasion Mortality in Iraq
  • IAG Briefings on Lancet Report

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

• Information sources page about the report
• IAG Briefings on Lancet Report
  • IAG Briefing on UK Govt response to Lancet Report (20 Nov 2004)

    On 17 November 2004, the UK Foreign Secretary produced a written ministerial statement responding 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 is largely unjustified, and in parts disingenuous.

  • IAG Briefing on UK Prime Minister's Response to Lancet Report (1 Nov 2004)

    Our previous response to the statement by the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman about the Lancet study