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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=ruglucia@PAHO.ORG
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><FONT face=Arial color=#993300
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
Numbers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><FONT face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dale
Keiger senior writer, </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=#333399
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Johns
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City>
Magazine. February 2007<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><I><FONT face=Arial
color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When
Johns <st1:City w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:City> epidemiologists set out to study
the war in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>, they did not anticipate that
their findings would be so disturbing, or so
controversial<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></B></P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0207web/number.html"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0207web/number.html</SPAN></FONT></A>
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In
April of last year, Gilbert H. Burnham and Leslie F. Roberts, A&S '92 (PhD),
began finalizing plans for some new epidemiology. There was nothing notable in
that; Burnham and Roberts, at the time both researchers at Johns Hopkins' <A
href="http://www.jhsph.edu/"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">Bloomberg School of Public Health</SPAN></FONT></A>, were
epidemiologists. What was notable was the subject. They would not be studying
the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, or
incidence of cholera in Bangladeshi villages. They meant to conduct
epidemiological research on the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They would treat the war as a
public health catastrophe, and apply epidemiological methods to answer a
question essential to an occupying power with the legal obligation to protect
the occupied: What had happened to the Iraqi people after the 2003 U.S.-led
invasion?<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A
monstrous war crime<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With
more than 650,000 civilians dead in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, our government must take
responsibility for its lies <BR></SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=#333399
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Richard Horton<BR>Wednesday March 28, 2007 <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"><FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">The Guardian</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></B>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial color=#333399 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">URL: <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2044345,00.html"><FONT
color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2044345,00.html</SPAN></FONT></A>
<BR><BR>
Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at
their word. This week the BBC reported that the government's own scientists
advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> civilian
mortality was accurate and reliable, following a freedom of information request
by the reporter Owen Bennett-Jones. This paper was published in the Lancet last
October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American
and British led invasion in March 2003
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