iCasualties.org
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 Screenshot dated June 18, 2007. |
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| URL | http://icasualties.org/oif/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Nonprofit / user-supported |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Created by | Michael White |
| Launched | May 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
iCasualties.org, formally the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count,[1] is an independent website[2] created in May 2003 by Michael White, a software engineer from Stone Mountain, Georgia, to track casualties in the Iraq War.[3]
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 fatility 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[4] and has been cited by, among others, the BBC, Voice of America, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.[1][5]
[edit] See also
- Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003
- Coalition casualties in Afghanistan
- Iraq Body Count project
- Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War
[edit] References
- ^ a b Varela, Anna. "A somber tally in Iraq", The Palm Beach Post, 2005-10-17. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
- ^ iCasualties.org. U.S.- Iraq ProCon.org. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
- ^ Bigg, Matthew. ""Joe Blow" keeps track of Iraq war dead", Reuters (via AlertNet), 2006-12-28. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ "US Military Struggles to `defeat' IEDs", AP, 2007-08-20. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ Trejos, Nancy. "U.S. Toll In Iraq Reaches 3,000", The Washington Post, 2007-01-01, p. A01. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
