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Liberation Report

Jesse Walker | 5.6.2003 3:06 AM

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According to the Associated Press, hospital records in Iraq show that the battle for Baghdad cost at least 1,101 civilian lives. Another 1,255 corpses were "probably" civilians, while many others, of course, never made it to hospitals at all. Thousands more were wounded.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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