Many experts and expert groups from a range of fields are attempting to combine their knowledge to understand the lethality to Iraqis of the invasion and post-invasion violence in Iraq.
This is a slightly abridged and amended version of an invited "meta-analysis" of IBC's potential contribution to that understanding, presented in a closed meeting of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on mortality estimates for Iraq, convened by WHO in Geneva, May 2007.
A random day’s IBC media input
1 See IBC's full list of sources for other media used and monitored by IBC (with a key to abbreviations).
The spreadsheet extract above provides key data about the press and media sources for one day’s stories (2nd October 2006).1 We are able to integrate material which originate in different languages because so many agencies now provide English translation of non-English sources. On this day, there were sources originating in English, Arabic, German, and Chinese, and provided by agencies based in 7 countries — USA, UK, France, Kuwait, Iraq, Germany, China. Ten reports came from Iraqi press and media agencies.