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IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 05
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
REU
-
Michael Georgy
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VIOLENCE ERUPTS ACROSS IRAQ
 4th (overnight)  5 (3 wounded)        
AP
-
05:48 PDT
-
BASSEM MROUE
-
U.S. FORCES SEAL OFF FALLUJAH AHEAD OF MAJOR OPERATION
 5th (morning)  5        
Aljaz
-
15:35 Makka Time, 12:35 GMT
-
IRAQIS KILLED IN US APACHE AIR STRIKE
5th
(4:00-5:30 AM)
6        
NCT
-
12:43 PM PDT
-
DARRIN MORTENSON
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U.S. TAKES CASUALTIES AS MAJOR OPERATION BEGINS IN FALLUJAH
5th
(early AM)
12+ (possible) 0/12      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 06
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AP
-
HAMZA HENDAWI
-
64 IRAQIS DIE IN BATTLE WITH U.S. FORCES
 6th and late 6th  8 + 26 (in four houses)
=34
(20 + 30 wounded)

'including women and children' in both cases

     
AP
-
BASSEM MROUE
-
FIGHTING HEARD AS U.S. AND IRAQI FORCES SURROUND FALLUJAH; AMERICAN DEATH TOLL CLIMBS
 5th (morning)  5        
Aljaz
-
16:46 Makka Time, 13:46 GMT
-
FIGHTING RESUMES IN FALLUJA
  6th (AM)

1/0

     
KR
-
13 U.S. MARINES KILLED AS FIGHTING SPREADS IN IRAQ
6th 4        
AP
-
4:59 PM EDT
-
26 IRAQIS DIE IN U.S. STRIKE ON FALLUJAH
6th (26 in evening and 8 in daytime) 26 (likely in the houses) + 8 (during earlier street fighting) =34
(? + 30 wounded)
(of the 26) 'including women and children';

'their wounds suggested they had been in the destroyed houses'
     
REU
-
21:47 (UK)
-
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
-
BATTLES FLARE AS SHI'ITES VOW RESISTANCE
6th 2
'at least'
(7 wounded)
2/0
'including a teenage girl'
     
AP
-
08:35 PDT
-
BASSEM MROUE
-
U.S. BATTLE GUERRILLAS AROUND FALLUJAH AHEAD OF OPERATION TO PACIFY CITY
5th 6 [US military said] 'all were guerrillas, though residents said five of them were killed when helicopters hit a residential area'
     
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 07
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Aljaz
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10:51 Makka Time, 7:51 GMT
-
SCORES DEAD AS FALLUJA RESISTS US ONSLAUGHT
Night of 6th-7th: 53;
7th: 45 
45 (incl family in car outside mosque) + 53 (overnight attacks)
=98

25 from one family (night of 6th-7th);

unspecified number from another family in car outside mosque, (7th);

'several children' among casualties

     
BNA
-
FALLUJAH STATISTICS INDICATE 40 DEAD
7th 40 'including women in children'   [102 injured]  
FBIS
-
Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 0505 GMT
-
AL-JAZIRAH CORRESPONDENT REPORTS 'HORRIFIC' SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH
6th 35
(60 wounded)
'some 24' from one family, 'including women and children' 4th-6th? 35?  
FBIS
-
Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1000 GMT
-
IRAQI DOCTOR PROVIDES FIGURES ON DEAD, WOUNDED IN AL-FALLUJAH
      4th-6th 54

[103 wounded]
'many of whom are women and children'
PBS
-
Gwen Ifill discusses the latest flashpoints with Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry, who is embedded with U.S. Marines in Fallujah.
-
DEADLY DAY
7th 1 (seven-yr-old girl) 1/0      
MEO
-
Ned Parker
-
AN UNEXPECTED REVOLT
late 6th - 7th

46

(40 in mosque: US military figure, later retracted - see PBS above)

"mostly women and children" up to 6th? 24?  
MEO
-
Last Updated 2004-04-07 12:40:04
-
SHIITES AND SUNNIS ARE RESISTING US-LED COALITION FORCES
6th-7th 30 (from US tank-fire)        
FBIS
-
Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1600 GMT
-
IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY STATEMENT WARNS AGAINST 'BLOODSHED, COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT'
      4th-7th? 100+

[200+ wounded]
'mostly women and children'
AP
-
8:18 AM EDT
-
LOURDES NAVARRO and BASSEM MROUE
-
U.S. FACES TOUGH URBAN BATTLE IN FALLUJAH
6th 26 (evening) + 8=34 26 included 'women and children'      

WP
-
Pamela Constable
-
TROOPS GAINING GRIP IN SECTIONS OF FALLUJAH

5th 10 0/10      
AP
-
ROCKETS KILL DOZENS IN IRAQI MOSQUE, WITNESSES SAY
night of 6th-7th, 7th 60+40=100 of 26 in four houses 16 were children, 8 women 4th-night of 6th, possibly 7th prior to bombing of mosque

150+,
(+40)

 
AP
-
3:01 PM (UK)
-
40 REPORTED KILLED IN FALLUJAH MOSQUE
  40        
LAT
-
Tony Perry
-
FALLOUJA NEIGHBORHOOD SUDDENLY TURNS FIERCE
6th? 50 0/50      
Times
-
COALITION VOWS TO CRUSH SHIA MILITIA BUT VIOLENCE CONTINUES
night of 6th-7th 60        
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 08
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
KUNA
-
AROUND 275 IRAQI CITIZENS KILLED IN FALLUJA CONFRONTATIONS
      5th-8th  275  
GUA
-
Rory McCarthy
-
'WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END, UNTIL EACH ONE OF THEM DIES
 7th (20) 6th (25-40)  'at least' 25 ('other reports said as many as 40') + 20 (Tuesday, in one large house) =45-60
(20 + 4 injured)

'Among the dead [of the 20] were several women and children'

  5th-7th (inclusive) 'at least' 60
(100 injured)
 
AFP
-
Ned Parker
-
CORPSES LITTER STREETS IN FALLUJAH
  6th-8th

0/1

     
Aljaz
-
22:48 Makka Time, 19:48 GMT
-
PLEA TO LIFT SIEGE AS TOLL MOUNTS
7th ? 'a family in a car outside of the mosque were killed in the attack'   280
(400 injured)
'Many children have been killed'
REU
-
04:16 AM ET
-
Alistair Lyon
-
FRESH FIGHTING HITS SHI'ITE SHRINE CITY IN IRAQ
8th 3
[15 wounded]
3/0 5th-8th

60 (one emergency clinic)
[162 wounded]

 
REU
-
18:54 (UK)
-
Alistair Lyon
-
FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN IRAQ
      5th-8th 'up to' 300  
AP
-
8:46 AM (UK)
-
BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI
-
HOSPITAL CHIEF: OVER 280 IRAQIS KILLED
7th 40 (est.) +1

40 est. 'gathered for afternooon prayers' - Iraqi witnesses
/
30 'suspected insurgents' killed since night of 6th -US military

Also 0/1 'One anti-coalition force member was killed in the attack' -US military (possibly at second mosque)

5th-8th 280+
(400 wounded)
 
SMH
-
1:21AM (AUS.)
-
Paul Mcgeough
-
40 DEAD AS US BOMBS MOSQUE
7th 41 (40 'insurgents' later retracted)      
REU
-
09:26 (UK)
-
Andrew Marshall
-
U.S. MAY BEEF UP IRAQ TROOP LEVELS
7th 25        
AFP
-
3:11 AM ET
-
US BATTLE TWO-PRONGED OFFENSIVE AGAINST SUNNI, SHIITE REBELS
7th? 1 (Iraqi girl) 1/0      
NYT
-
CHRISTINE HAUSER
-
IRAQ UPRISING SPREADS; RUMSFELD SEES IT AS 'TEST OF WILL'
7th 36? (est.)        
IND
-
Patrick Cockburn
-
A GUIDED MISSILE, A MISGUIDED WAR
7th (mosque), 6th 40 (7th) +16 children +8 women (6th)=64 64 (40 'worshippers'' + 24 women and children) 5th-8th? 150?  
REU
-
Akram Saleh
-
FIERCE FIGHTING SWEEPS IRAQI CITIES, SHI'ITE AREAS
7th, 6th 25 (7th) +'at least' 36 (6th)=61        
Aljaz
-
9:58 Makka Time, 6:58 GMT
-
IRAQIS MARCH TO FALLUJA CARRYING AID
7th? ? 20/0?      
SMH
-
8:39PM (AUS.)
-
SHI'ITE MILITIA CONTROL PARTS OF 3 IRAQI CITIES
7th 40   5th-8th 280  
AP
-
Bassem Mroue
-
MOSQUE HIT IN FALLUJAH
night of 6th & daytime 7th 16 (children) + 8 (women) 40 (mosque) = 64 24 women & children      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 09
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
G&M
-
1:07 PM EDT
-
U.S. AIRCRAFT ATTACK FALLUJAH
   

 

4th-9th?  280  
AFP
-
US RESUMES FALLUJAH ASSAULT AFTER BRIEF STOP
      5th-9th? 300+ [500 wounded]  
GR
-
VOICES OF CONSCIENCE: END THE MASSACRE IN FALLUJA!
      5th-9th 470 (37% of injured are women and children)
Aljaz
-
15:12 Makka Time, 12:12 GMT
-
US ATTACK BELIES BREMER'S FALLUJA 'TRUCE'
8th (PM) 2   5th-9th 300+
[500+ wounded]
 
AljazTV
-
QATAR: AL-JAZIRAH SATELLITE CHANNEL TELEVISION IN ARABIC
      5th-9th? 100+  
Aljaz
-
20:48 Makka Time, 17:48 GMT
-
DOCTOR REVEALS FALLUJA'S HORROR TOLL
      4th-9th? 'at least' 450 [1000+ wounded -via REU] ; 400+ [1000+ wounded -via AFP]  
AP
-
LOURDES NAVARRO and ABDUL-QADER SAADI
-
REFUGEES EXIT FALLUJAH AFTER BURYING DEAD
      5th-9th 280+  

Aljaz
-
7:38 Makka Time, 4:38 GMT
-
US: FIERCE FALLUJA FIGHTING RECALLS VIETNAM

8th 10 +1=11 0/11 6th (PM)-9th? (AM) 105  
News24
-
21:14 (SA)
-
DEAD BURIED IN SOCCER STADIUM
      5th-9th 200?  
IND
-
Robert Fisk
-
THE WAR'S ONE SIMPLE TRUTH: IRAQIS DO NOT WANT US
      5th-8th 200  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 10
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
GUA
-
Rory McCarthy
-
'WE HAVE TO FIGHT TO A SAFE HAVEN - BUT THEY ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK'
   

 

5th-9th  450  
REU
-
CLASHES ERUPT IN BAGHDAD, U.S. OFFERS FALLUJA TRUCE
      5th-9th 450 (approx.)  
AFP
-
1956 hrs Time is GMT + 8 hours
-
US SOLDIERS MAINTAIN SECURITY POSITIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN FALLUJAH
      5th-9th 400
[1000 injured]
 
WP
-
Pamela Constable
-
FALLUJAH FIGHTING HALTS BRIEFLY FOR EVACUATION, AID CONVOY
      5th-9th 450 450/0?
REU
-
17:31 (UK)
-
IRAQI CHILDREN LIE WOUNDED IN FALLUJA CLINIC
5th-9th, ambulance driver possibly 7th (day of attack on Abdulaziz mosque) 1 (new born baby) + 1 (ambulance driver) =2
[others not numbered - plural of women, children, old men]
  5th-9th 470
[1200 injured]
[37% of injured were women and children]
ISP
-
Andrea Schmidt
-
WAR WITHOUT END
      5th-10th? 427
[1200 injured]
 
KR
-
Matthew Schofield
-
IMAGES OF CIVILIAN DEAD, WOUNDED IN FALLUJAH BECOME ANTI-AMERICAN RALLYING POINT
7th-8th? 1   5th-9th? 'estimates as high as' 450
[1000+ wounded]
 
Aljaz
-
21:59 Makka Time, 18:59 GMT
-
CRISIS MEETING TO END BLOODSHED IN FALLUJA
10th 1 1/0 5th-10th 450+ including children
Aljaz
-
18:44 Makka Time, 15:44 GMT
-
ALJAZEERA UNDER FIRE IN FALLUJA
      5th-10th? 450  
LAT
-
Alissa J. Rubin
-
U.S. LOSING SUPPORT OF KEY IRAQIS
      5th-9th? 200+?  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 11
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AP
-
9:01 PM (UK)
-
ABDUL-QADER SAADI
-
FALLUJAH DEATH TOLL FOR WEEK MORE THAN 600
      5th-11th  600+

'Most' civilian -IBC's definition of 'most'=60%, so 360+/240+

'Some headstones bore the names of women; others had markings indicating the dead were children.'

'an unknown number of dead being buried in people's homes' 

GN
-
IRAQI CHILDREN BEING SHOT IN FALLUJAH
5th-9th? 1 (new-born baby) 1/0 5th-9th 470
[1200 injured]
(37% of injured were women and children)
COX
-
Larry Kaplow
-
IRAQ BROTHERS SEE FALLUJAH CARNAGE
before 9th 12 (incl. 3-yr-old and his schoolteacher father in home next to generator shed) +1 (50-yr-old grandfather) +5 (men assisting 'resistance')
=18
13/5 (est.)      
AFP
-
Deborah Pasmantier
-
FALLUJAH: A GHOST TOWN WHERE SCARED RESIDENTS BURY THEIR DEAD IN THEIR YARDS
  'several' in homes; other plurals used     400+ [1000 wounded]  
AP
-
DANIEL COONEY
-
TWO DIE WHEN U.S. COPTER DOWNED IN IRAQ
11th 11   5th-11th 600+ 'mostly women, children and elderly' - Rafie al-Issawi, the director of the city hospital

'most of the dead were probably insurgents' - Marine commander
NS
-
Dahr Jamail
-
NO END IN SIGHT AS FALLUJAH DEATH TOLL APPROACHES 700
11th (or died later)

2 (woman and small child shot by US sniper)

2/0 5th-11th 600+ counted 'most' - (360/240)
REU
-
SHAKY TRUCE HOLDS IN FALLUJAH
      5th-11th 'hundreds'  
Aljaz
-
SHAKY CEASEFIRE UNDERWAY IN FALLUJA
10th 1 (75-yr-old man) 1/0 5th-10th 450+  
REU
-
IRAQI CHILDREN LIE WOUNDED IN FALLUJA CLINIC
5th-9th? 3 (one driver evacuating wounded, 'some' wounded also killed - min. est. of 2) 3/0 5th-11th 'hundreds'  
AP
-
Hamza Hendawi
-
FRIENDS OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ HAVE DOUBTS
      5th-11th 600+  
REU
-
20:04 (UK)
-
AROUND 600 IRAQIS KILLED IN FALLUJA  
      5th-11th  600+  
LAT
-
Alissa J. Rubin
-
FALLOUJA RESIDENTS CALL U.S. TACTICS OPPRESSIVE
5th-11th? (family of) 25        
TIME
-
Mark Thompson
-
HOW TO SQUEEZE A CITY
7th 40   5th-9th 300 (civilians only)

'300 civilians' according to doctors; 'U.S. says most of the dead are insurgents' (insurgents not included in figure of 300, however)

IO
-
Sara Korshid
-
PACIFY FALLUJAH
9th and earlier

1 (intrauterine death of baby) + 1 (pharmacist)
=2

(Also 'many of the families... entire families' who were fleeing killed: IBC's conservative definition of 'family is '3' but 'many' is undefined - impossible to estimate meaningfully from this, better left to cumulative stats)

2/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 12
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
IND
-
Patrick Cockburn
-
GUERRILLAS GUN DOWN US HELICOPTER BUT CEASEFIRE TAKES HOLD IN BESIEGED FALLUJAH
11th 1 (Iraqi sniper)

0/1

5th-9th  470

(37% of wounded women and children)

AP
-
5:16 PM (UK)
-
ABDUL-QADER SAADI and LOURDES NAVARRO
-
IRAQI GUNMEN BATTER U.S. SUPPLY LINES
11th (incl. overnight) 2 'insurgents setting up a machine gun' +11 'Iraqis seen brought to makeshift clinic at mosque' 11?/2 5th-11th? approx 600 (300 buried in one of two soccer fields) 'mostly civilians' -hospital director
/
'confident' troops in his regiment 'had not killed any civilans' -US commander

REU
-
09:21 AM ET
-
Michael Georgy
-
FALLUJA FIGHTING HAUNTS IRAQIS WHO FLED

      5th-11th 600+  
AP
-
10:46 PM (UK)
-
LEE KEATH
-
SHIITE CLERIC PULLS BACK IRAQI MILITIAS
11th? 2 'gunmen setting up a machine gun' + 1 'insurgent in the ambulance' + 24 ('dozens'... who left their homes for supplies') 24 ('dozens')
/3
5th-11th? 600+ 'mostly women, children and the elderly'
AP
-
HAMZA HENDAWI
-
MANY KILLED ON BOTH SIDES SO FAR IN APRIL
      5th-11th 600+ 'mostly civilians'
TN
-
Dahr Jamail
-
SARAJEVO ON THE EUPHRATES
11th? 1   5th-12th? 600+ 'most of them civlians'
PAC
-
Aaron Glantz
-
MORE THAN 600 KILLED IN FALLUJAH
(3 in house) before 9th 1 (Ahmed, 11 or under) + 3 = 4 4/0 5th-12th? 600+
['thousands' injured]
 
EI
-
Dahr Jamail
-
AMERICANS SLAUGHTERING CIVILIANS IN FALLUJA
before 12th 1 (baby) + 1 (old man)=2 2/0 5th-12th? 600+  
REU
-
08:24AM (SA)
-
Fadel Badran
-
VIOLENCE RAGES ON IN FALLUJAH DESPITE TRUCE
      5th-12th? 600+  
TEL
-
Jack Fairweather talks to families who fled the fighting in Fallujah
-
'THERE WERE BODIES BY THE ROAD BUT NO ONE STOPPED. WE JUST WANTED TO GET OUT OF THAT HELLISH PLACE'
9th; pre-10th 9 (on rooftop, shot by Apache) + 1 (neighbour of Mohammed Hadi) +25 (mourners at cemetery) +2 (friends of Hassan Monem, 17)
=37
(+ others unconfirmed dead, eg. husband of Turka Hasim, 30 of her neighbours)
28 (min) 37 (max) civilian (9 on rooftop undefined)      
Aljaz
-
15:13 Makka Time, 12:13 GMT
-
HIGHWAY TO HELL: THE ROAD TO FALLUJA
before 12th     5th-12th 600+
['at least' 1000 wounded]
 
UPI
-
P. Mitchell Prothero
-
FALLUJAH RESISTANCE VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT
  3 (IBC def. of 'family', shot by snipers as they attempted to escape fighting) +2 (companions of fighter 'Abu Freedom')
=5
3/2
('Army of Mohammed' members)
     
GUA
-
Jonathan Steele
-
'SHELLS AND ROCKETS WERE FALLING LIKE RAIN'
9th 1 (man forced to return to Falluja) 1/0      
FBIS
-
Dubai: Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic 0600 GMT
-
AL-ARABIYAH REPORTS ON CURRENT SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH
11th-12th 12 (incl. man who was shot by snipers while obtaining provisions for his family) 1 (min) 12 (max) civiians 5th-12th 600  
AFP
-
Karim Saheb
-
IRAQI FAMILIES LIVE ROUGH AROUND BESIEGED CITY OF FALLUJAH
      5th-12th 600
[1250 wounded]
 

GN
-
FALLUJAH: A 'GRAVEYARD OF THE MARTYRS'

      5th-12th 600+
(300 buried in one football field, unknown number in another)
 
BBC
-
16:02:03 GMT
-
SCALE OF FALLUJA VIOLENCE EMERGES
      5th-9th (11th) 470 - 600  
IO
-
Ahmad Maher
-
MOST OF FALLUJAH VICTIMS WOMEN, CHILDREN: REPORT
before 9th? ? (buses hit)   5th-11th 600  
GUA
-
Rory McCarthy in Baghdad and Julian Borger in Washington
-
DEFIANT US SAYS FALLUJA DEAD WERE REBELS
      5th-11th 600+

'vast majority of the dead were women, children and the elderly' -hospital director
/
'I think you will find is 95% of those were military age males' -US commander

EN
-
Rahul Mahajan
-
REPORT FROM FALLUJAH -- DESTROYING A TOWN IN ORDER TO "SAVE" IT
      5th-12th 600+ with an estimated 200 women and over 100 children'
LAT
-
3:37 PM PDT
-
Nicholas Riccardi and Tony Perry
-
CEASE-FIRE NOT 100% BUT HOLDING, U.S. SAYS
11th 4   (late) 4th-11th? 600+  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 13
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AFP
-
300 WOMEN, CHILDREN AMONG FALLUJAH DEAD
   

 

5th-9th 600+
[1250 wounded]

301 women and children, + 'many elderly'

IND
-
Patrick Cockburn
-
'DO WE LOOK LIKE FIGHTERS?' ASK FALLUJAH FAMILIES WITH THEIR DISABLED, THEIR OLD AND THEIR CHILDREN
before 13th 1

1/0

5th-9th 600+
[1200 wounded]

'About 350 were women and children'

FBIS
-
Quds Press (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 0609 GMT
-
'IRAQI RESISTANCE' DEMANDS US SNIPERS WITHDRAW FROM FALLUJAH BY 2200, 13 APRIL
12th 15        
REU
-
17:35 (UK)
-
Alistair Lyon
-
ISLAMIST KIDNAPPERS TELL ITALY TO QUIT IRAQ
      5th-13th 625+  
DN
-
"FEAR IS TRANSMUTING INTO ANGER" - RAHUL MAHAJAN REPORTS ON RESISTANCE IN IRAQ
12th (or after) 1 (woman 'quite certain to die')   5th-13th? 'some' 600 'at least' half women and children; majority of total were non-combatants
JW
-
APRIL 11TH - FALLUJA
11th-after 12th? 2 ('children are not going to live') +1 ('He'll die of dehydration within a few days') +2 (brother and aunt of doctor) +1 (55-yr-old man) =6        
PAC
-
US MARINES SHOOT AMBULANCES IN FALLUJAH
before 12th 1 1/0 5th-12th? 600
(total number 'likely much higher')
 
AP
-
3:13 p.m. ET
-
JASON KEYSER
-
SOME TROOPS EXPECT ALL-OUT FALLUJAH FIGHT
12th 1 + 9 0/9      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 14
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter

AFSC
-
(American Friends Service Committee)
-
CORRESPONDENTS' JOURNAL

   

 

5th-12th 518

'including 157 women and 146 children'

NAT
-
THE 'CEASEFIRE' IN FALLUJAH
-
Dahr Jamail
10th (or earlier) 1 '55-year-old man shot in the back by a sniper outside his home' 1/0 5th-14th? 600+  

NS
-
Dahr Jamail
-
WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS

'recently' pre-14th 2 2 - 'a 9 year-old boy and his 16 year-old sister'      
KR
-
ROBERT MORAN
-
REFUGEES FROM FALLUJAH SAY U.S. ATTACKS FUELING ILL-WILL AMONG IRAQIS
1 during 6th-11th? 1 'Mahmood's... nephew' + 1 'Sajeen's mother' (possibly from lack of medical care)
0 (min) 2 (max)
1 (Min) 2 (Max)      
AFP
-
Deborah Pasmantier
-
BAGHDAD'S MUSLIMS RUSH AID FOR FALLUJAH RESIDENTS
      5th-11th 600+ [1250 wounded]  

AFP
-
0239 hrs Time is GMT + 8 hours
-
FALLUJAH TRUCE FRAYS; COPTER FORCED DOWN

13th 9
[38 wounded]
'wounded include three women and four children'   600+ [1250 wounded] 'Among those killed were 160 women, 141 children and many elderly'
Aljaz
-
14:19 Makka Time, 11:19 GMT
-
FALLUJA CEASEFIRE BROKEN
13th 5 0/5 5th-13th 700+
[1200 injured]
 
IRIN
-
Beth Potter
-
IRAQ: BAGHDAD HOSPITAL TREATING INJURED FROM FALLUJAH
      5th-13th

500-700
['rising to' 1500 injured]

 
CSM
-
Christina Asquith
-
REFUGEES TELL OF RISING ANGER IN FALLUJAH
before 13th 19 (in house)+ 1 (5-yr-old by sniper) +1 (old man by helicopter);
9 (on roof by helicopter) =29
[at least 2] 5th-13th? 600 'The victims include hundreds of women and children'
INDY (UK)
-
Lee Gordon (Transcription of Lee's radio interview with Mindy Ran)
-
NO CEASEFIRE IN FALLUJA

9th 1 (28-yr-old male nurse) 1/0      
NYT
-
Jeffrey Gettleman
-
MARINES IN FALLUJA STILL FACE AND RETURN RELENTLESS FIRE
10th, 11th 12+1
[presumed killed]
0/13      
AFP
-
FALLUJAH GETS ANOTHER 48 HOURS OF PEACE
13th 9   5th-13th 600+
[1250 wounded]
 
NYT
-
Christine Hauser
-
WAR REPORTS FROM CIVILIANS STIR UP IRAQIS AGAINST U.S.
12th or earlier (parents of Haider Abdel-Wahab) 12th (his two brothers), and possibly earlier;
10th and prior (Jo Wilding's account)
2 (parents) + 2 (brothers) + 2 (children) + 1 (elderly man) + 1 (gunman)=7 6/1      
Ekklesias
-
CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKERS REPORT KILLINGS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY US TROOPS IN FALLUJAH
      5th-11th
['by Sunday']
518
[1200+ wounded]
[at least] 303 civilian (157 women + 146 children)
MEO
-
Last Updated 2004-04-14 14:28:04
-
FOUR DEAD IN IRAQ MORTAR ATTACK IN CROWDED MARKET IN MOSUL, FIVE KILLED IN FALLUJAH DESPITE DECLARED CEASEFIRE.
13th-14th (overnight) 5        
AP
-
INTENSE BATTLES CONTINUE IN FALLUJAH
      5th-13th? 600 'mostly civilians'
AI
-
Iraq: Civilians continue to pay the price
        'at least' 600 'half' civilian
Balt. Sun
-
Mark Matthews
-
LIKENING IRAQ, VIETNAM 'FALSE,' PRESIDENT SAYS
      5th-14th 800+  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 15
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter

AP
-
LOURDES NAVARRO
-
MARINES IN FALLUJAH TRADE 'CULTURALLY SENSITIVE' TRAINING FOR BULLETS

prior to 15th 1

0/1

5th-15th?    600+  
AT
-
Pepe Escobar
-
WANTED: A NEW SADDAM
5th-11th? 1 (8-mnth-old baby) 1/0 5th-11th? ('last week') 'at least' 600 'about 350 out of the 600'
JP
-
FOUR KILLED AS RI'S MER-C AMBULANCE HIT BY U.S. MISSILE
9th, noon 4 (three patients and driver of ambulance) 4/0      
AFP
-
Salah Jali
-
A CITY WITH MORE FIGHTERS THAN WEAPONS
      5th-15th? 600+
[1250 wounded]
'over half the dead are women and children'
MEO
-
Ned Parker
-
BOMBS ARE RESPONSIBLE MORE THAN ANY OTHER WEAPON FOR DEATHS OF US SOLDIERS
13th-15th 1        
MEO
-
Salah Jali
-
FALLUJAH'S WOMEN; SPINE OF STEADFASTNESS
      5th-15th? 600
[1250 wounded]
'half were women and children'
AFP
-
US TROOPS IN IRAQ TO STAY ON, FALLUJAH TRUCE COMES UNGLUED, HOSTAGE-TAKING CONTINUES
14th or 15th 5        
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 16
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter

REU
-
15 IRAQIS DIE AS US PLANES STRAFE FALLUJAH

15th-16th
(overnight)
15
[20 wounded]

 

    'hundreds'  
Aljaz
-
9:43 Makka Time, 6:43 GMT
-
MORE IRAQIS KILLED IN FALLUJA
15th-16th (overnight)? 15
[20 wounded]
  5th-15th? 125 (in one makehift cemetery; 'hundreds' overall  
BBC
-
18:41:41 GMT
-
TALKS TO RESOLVE FALLUJA STANDOFF
15th-16th (overnight) 'at least' 10        
FBIS
-
Qatar: Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 0838 GMT 16 Apr 04
-
IRAQI MUSLIM ULEMA COUNCIL HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH
pre-15th 1 (pregnant woman) + 'scores' (still buried under rubble)   5th-15th? 298
(only counting women and children)
 
GA
-
U.S. COMMAND ATTEMPTS TO ATTRIBUTE IRAQ REBELLION ON FOREIGNERS
16th? 2 (tankfire) + 1 (by sniper) =3   5th-15th? 600+ '600 civilians'
REU
-
10:16 (UK)
-
Fadel Badran
-
NAJAF STANDOFF FUELS IRAQ TENSION
15th-16th
(overnight)
15
[20 wounded]
       
UPI
-
8:12:33 EDT
-
SUNNI CLERICS BLAST U.S. FORCES
15th-16th (overnight) 15        
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 17
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter

KT
-
IRAQIS FIND RESOLVE IN GRIEF OF FALLUJAH

before 17th 1 (combatant)+ 1 (hospital volunteer)=2

1/1

5th-17th? 600+
[1250 wounded]
(over 100 in football pitch)

'half of them women and children'

AP
-
Jason Keyser
-
TROOPS BLAST MUSIC IN SIEGE OF FALLUJAH
pre-17th 1 (possible)+3 (in car)=3 (min) 4 (max) 0/3 (min) to 4 (max)      
LAT
-
Tony Perry
-
MARINE CORPS SNIPERS AIM TO STRIKE FEAR

5th-17th 24
'confirmed kills'
       

GUA
-
Jo Wilding was talking to Rachel Shabi
-
'GETTING AID PAST US SNIPERS IS IMPOSSIBLE'

10th? 1     880+
(possibly country-wide figure via AP)
86 children
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 18
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AP
-
8:01 PM (UK)
-
JASON KEYSER
-
FALLUJAH IS REALM OF SNIPERS ON BOTH SIDES
pre-18th 1 (gunman on roof) +10 (sniper Crane's previous 'kills') +1 (Haqi Ismail on way to prayers) +2 ('16-year-old living near al-Khulafaa, Mohannad Abdel-Rahman' and uncle) = 14 3/11 (if all 10 previous 'kills' combatant) 5th-17th? 600+ 'mostly civilians'
SH
-
Jo Wilding
-
EYEWITNESS IN FALLUJAH
pre-18th? 2 (aunt and brother of doctor) +1 (man shot in front of home) 2 (min) 3 (max) civilians      
INQ
-
Walden Bello
-
FALLUJA AND THE FORGING OF THE NEW IRAQ
        600 'a high proportion'
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 19
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NYT
-
JOHN F. BURNS and CHRISTINE HAUSER
-
BREMER IS INCREASING PRESSURE FOR A QUICK END TO IRAQI UPRISINGS
        about 1,000 (countrywide, 'including insurgents and civilians')  

CO
-
Rahul Mahajan
-
REPORT FROM BAGHDAD -- HOSPITAL CLOSINGS AND U.S. WAR CRIMES

        700+ 'at least half of them civilians'
GUA
-
Rory McCarthy
-
CHILDREN HIT BY 'RANDOM SHOOTING'
  14
(in Baghdad hospital, including baby in womb, from shrapnel)
'most of them civilians' 5th-19th 600 'or more' 'dozens of civlians'

AP
-
BASSEM MROUE
-
CIVILIAN DEATHS ANGER FALLUJAH REFUGEES

9th 2 (parents of 9-yr-old Gofran Mohammed) + 1 (her younger brother) + 1 (her sister Amal, 5) + 1 (sister Saja, 11) = 5 5/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 20
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter

AP
-
9:01 AM (UK)
-
LOURDES NAVARRO
-
MARINES, INSURGENTS TRAP FALLUJAH FAMILY

  1 (niece of Haji Abbas

1/0

     
NS
-
Dahr Jamail
-
BAGHDAD DOCTORS REPORT USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS IN FALLUJA; US HARRASSMENT OF PATIENTS

pre-19th 1
(wounded prevented medical treatment) + 'women and children' seen killed
1/0      
AFP
-
1945 hrs Time Is Gmt + 8 Hours
-
IRAQI MEDIATOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FALLUJAH DEAL
      5th-19th? 600+ 'half of them women, children and elderly people'
JW
-
Jo Wilding
-
APRIL 17TH - FALLUJA
17th and pre-17th 1
(injured man whose throat was slit) + 1 (pregnant woman, survived by her baby) + 3 (brother, nephew and niece of Wilding's kidnapper)
  5th-9th (children 5th-7th) 5-600 in Iraqi-held areas (86 children in first 3 days) [1200 'casualties'] 86 children included
AFP
-
Ned Parker
-
IRAQI DOCTORS WATCH HELPLESSLY AFTER DAYS OF WAR IN FALLUJAH
pre-19th 1 (3-yr-old boy) + 1 (old man) +1 (bruised man with rope burns) =3 3/0      

NYT
-
IAN FISHER
-
THE STANDOFF

19th 6 ('insurgents') 0/6      
IWPR
-
Wisam al-Jaff
-
FALLUJANS BREAK THE SIEGE
pre-19th 1 (Dr. Akram) 1/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 21
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Xin
-
DISPLACED FALLUJAH RESIDENTS NOWHERE TO RETURN
21st; before 21st

17 ('north of Fallujah') + 2 ('children of 'Sheikh Kamal Shakir Al Nazal') = 19

'two... children'

     

REU
-
05:42 AM ET
-
Fadel Badran
-
U.S. TROOPS, IRAQ REBELS CLASH IN FALLUJA

21st (AM) 6
(early Wednesday)
6/0 5th-20th? 600+
[2000 wounded]
'many of them women and children'
Aljaz
-
13:04 Makka Time, 10:04 GMT
-
US DESTROYING FALLUJA HOMES
20th 8 (shot by Marines)   5th-20th? 600  
IO
-
Dr. Mohammed Hassan Al-Meshelany, Iraqi Physician
-
An Eyewitness Account: An Iraqi Physician in Fallujah
 

(all figures are bare mins, plural 'children'=2)
3 (wife and children of survivor) +
6 (two of his brothers, their wives and children - assuming min of 1 child per couple) + 3
(the wife and children of his third brother) = 12

12/0 5th-pre-21st 800+  
SFBG
-
THE KILL ZONE
10th or earlier 1 1/0      
AP
-
9:46 PM (UK)
-
JASON KEYSER and LOURDES NAVARRO
-
MARINES KILL 20 INSURGENTS IN FALLUJAH
21st 20 'insurgents' 0/20 5th-20th? 600+ 'mostly civilians'
COX
-
LARRY KAPLOW
-
IRAQI DEATHS TOP 556 IN TWO WEEKS OF FIGHTING
pre-21st 5 (parents and three siblings of 10-yr-old survivor, Haider al-Enezi) 5/0 5th-19th? 264 (+ estimated 15% unnaccounted for=304) '28 children and 24 women'
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 22
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NYT
-
ERIC SCHMITT
-
U.S. GENERAL AT FALLUJA WARNS A FULL ATTACK COULD COME SOON
      9th-22nd? 14 days x '5 to 20 insurgents' = 70 to 280 0/70-280
AP
-
2:46 PM (UK)
-
SAMIR YACOUB
-
576 IRAQI INSURGENTS SAID KILLED IN APRIL
      5th-22nd? 271 51/220
'19% civilians'
Alb
-
US ARMY: 36 IRAQI FIGHTERS KILLED IN FALLUJAH; SPANISH CIVILIAN SHOT DEAD IN BAGHDAD
21st 36 0/36      
BG
-
Anne Barnard
-
DEATH TOLL NEAR 500 IN FALLUJAH, BAGHDAD
      5th-19th? 264+ 26 to 40 = 290 to 304
('death toll might grow by 10 or 15 percent')
(min) 35 to 37
12% 'women or children 15 years old or younger'
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 23
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AFP
-
2021 hrs Time is GMT + 8 hours
-
RADICAL IRAQ CLERIC THREATENS SUICIDE ATTACKS
      5th-22nd 271
[793 wounded]
 
NS
-
Dahr Jamail
-
FALLUJAH RESIDENTS REPORT U.S. FORCES ENGAGED IN COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT
pre-17th; 22nd-23rd ('overnight') 2 (neighbours of Abdul Aziz shot by US snipers) + 20 (in 'overnight skirmishes') = 22   5th-23rd? 'at least 700  
REU
-
Fadel Badran
-
RESIDENTS RETURN TO VOLATILE FALLUJAH
22nd;23rd 3 (bodies found in rubble, 23rd); 7 (22nd) = 10   5th-22nd? 600+  
SMH
-
Evelyn Leopold
-
GRAFT TALK ON IRAQ OIL PROMPTS UN REVIEW
      5th-22nd? 264
[791 wounded]
 
MMN
-
Oussama El-Mohtar
-
"FROM MASS GRAVES TO MASSACRES"
      5th-11th 600
[3000+ wounded]
'majority' civilian
BBC
-
14:30 GMT 15:30 UK
-
PICTURE EMERGES OF FALLUJA SIEGE
pre-23rd 2
(70 and 50 year-old men shot by US snipers)
2/0 5th-22nd (IHM) 600
(earlier-quoted local doctors);
750
(Dr Obaidi); 271
(I.H. Minister)
 
AFP
-
FALLUJAH SIEGE CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL 271: IRAQI OFFICIAL
      5th-22nd (A.M.) 271
[793 wounded] (IHM)
 
LAT
-
Tony Perry and Patrick J. McDonnell
-
MARINES WARN OF BATTLE IN FALLOUJA




22nd 36 ('insurgents') 0/36 5th-22nd

219
(includes Ramadi!)
['nearly' 700 injured]

24 children, 28 women
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 24
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
GUA
-
Rory McCarthy talks to survivors of the US forces' assault on Falluja
-
UNEASY TRUCE IN THE CITY OF GHOSTS
8th (Wisam and cousin); week of 5th-11th;

1 (Wisam, 16-yr-old son of Menem Latif Hussain) + 1 (his cousin Thair Ahmed, 18) + 1 (18-yr-old girl by sniper) +1 (her brother-in-law trying to help her) +3 (men who had been sitting on a bench) +1 (unborn baby of woman hit by shrapnel) =8

8/0

5th-8th/9th; and later 300; later 'up to' 600 doctors: 'most of the dead were civilians' - but 'US commanders have refused to accept this'
AFP
-
Paul Peachey
-
AT LEAST 32 KILLED, NEARLY 60 INJURED IN ANOTHER DAY OF VIOLENCE IN IRAQ
24th 1 (2-month-old girl) +1 (Mortada, nephew of Hanan Abdel Baki) = 2 2/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 25
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AFP
-
Marwan Naamani
-
VOLUNTEERS SET UP TENTS OUTSIDE BAGHDAD TO SHELTER FALLUJAH REFUGEES
pre-25th

2 (15 & 20-yr-olds by shell on house)

2/0

5th-22nd? 271  
REU
-
05:51 AM ET
-
Michael Georgy
-
U.S. MARINES BIDE TIME IN FALLUJA QUAGMIRE
      5th-15th? 600  
EN
-
REPORT FROM FALLUJAH -- DESTROYING A TOWN IN ORDER TO SAVE IT

10th or later 18 yr-old woman, young boy 'likely terminal' cases   5th-10th 5-600, 'current reports say' estimated 200 women and over 100 children
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 26
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Tel
-
Toby Harnden
-
FALLUJAH WILL BE YOUR STALINGRAD, AMERICANS TOLD
pre-25th

2 (incl. body dumped by American troops)

 

5th-22nd? 271
('official estimate')
 
AP
-
IRAQIS: US USING CLUSTER BOMBS IN FALLUJAH
      5th-26th?

'at least' 800
[1800 wounded]

 

BBC
-
14:48 GMT 15:48 UK
-
FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN IRAQI CITY

26th 8 'insurgents' 0/8 5th-26th? 800+
[1800 wounded]
 
AFP
-
EIGHT KILLED IN FALLUJAH CLASHES, BAGHDAD CHEMICAL BLAST CLAIMS TWO
26th

8
'rebels'

0/8      
KR
-
Carol Rosenberg and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
-
FIERCE FIREFIGHT IN FALLUJAH KILLS 1 U.S. MARINE, 8 IRAQI MILITANTS
26th 8 ('militants' in gun battle) 0/8      
NYT
-
EDWARD WONG
-
TRUCE EXTENDED IN FALLUJA SIEGE, AND TALKS GO ON
24th 25 (by AC-130 gunship)   5th-22nd (5th-11th) 271
(AP reported 600 earlier)
 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 27
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NYT
-
CHRISTINE HAUSER
-
IN FALLUJA, FINDING A PLACE FOR THE DEAD
pre-26th 2
(young brother and sister Amal and Mustafa Alawi, killed in the Hay Julan district)
2/0 5th-26th? 250
(in one makeshift cemetery)
271
(IHM)
'more than double [the IHM figure]'
(local doctors)
cemetery 'full of women and children' but also some 'signs of fallen fighters'
KR
-
Carol Rosenberg
-
U.S. MARINES INCREASINGLY TARGETING ENEMY FIGHTERS WITH SNIPERS
      5th-26th? 90 + 26 ('kills' of two sniper teams - each contains one actual sniper - + one other sniper, of 100 snipers in Falluja)  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 28
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AFP
-
BLAIR SAYS US AIRSTRIKES IN FALLUJAH ARE JUSTIFIED
27th-28th (overnight) 2 0/2 5th-28th? 280
(IHM)
[820 injured]
54 women and children [102 injured]
AFP
-
AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQI TOWN OF FALLUJAH HIT VEHICLE, BUILDING: MILITARY
           
REU
-
Fadel Badran
-
BUSH WARNS FALLUJA REBELS
      5th-28th? 'some' 600  

NYT
-
CHRISTINE HAUSER
-
SIEGE DEFINED ON STONES SET IN HASTE IN THE DIRT

(See also 27 April sources,
IN FALLUJA, FINDING A PLACE FOR THE DEAD)

pre-27th 1        
NYT
-
JOHN KIFNER and CHRISTINE HAUSER
-
FIGHTING RESUMES IN FALLUJA; RETURN OF FAMILIES IS HALTED
28th 20        
AFP
-
US POUNDS IRAQI INSURGENTS AS UN ENVOY LAYS OUT POLITICAL BLUEPRINT
      5th-28th? 280
(IHM - but 'Other estimates... much higher')
[820 injured]
54 women and children [102 injured]
IANS
-
UN ENVOY WARNS US AGAINST FURTHER BLOODSHED IN IRAQ
      5th-28th?

'reportedly' 800+
['more than' 1000 wounded]

 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 29
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
IRIN
-
Beth Potter
-
IRAQ: AID AGENCIES CONTINUE TO SUPPLY FALLUJAH AND NAJAF
 

 

 

5th-26th? ('three weeks') 'up to' 700  
AP
-
PRESSURE GROWS FOR SOLUTIONS IN FALLUJAH
29th 7 (assuming separate 'incidents', as details very different) 7/0      
PG
-
Lee Gordon
-
ON THE FRONT LINE
? 1 (grandfather of Ali) + 5 (Ali's mother, and assuming 2 sisters, 2 brothers 'believed dead') + 25 ('up to 25' of Walid Mohammed Dahi Jenabi's family and neighbours - IBC min family unit is 3) + 1 (volunteer nurse) = 10 (min) 32 (max) 10 (min) to 32 (max)/0      
Balt. Sun
-
Tom Bowman
-
IN FALLUJAH, A NIGHTMARE SCENARIO OF URBAN WAR
      5th-11th? (based on AP) 600
('though ... health minister in the U.S.-appointed government... said the death toll was less than half that')
 
AP
-
JASON KEYSER
-
U.S. TO PULL BACK FROM FALLUJAH AS SADDAM-ERA GENERAL TAKES CHARGE OF SECURITY
29th 7 (assuming 'separate incidents', as details very different) 7/0      
REU
-
NINE U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ
29th? 'up to' 4 4/0 5th-26th? 600  
LAT
-
John Hendren and Tony Perry
-
BATTLE FOR FALLOUJA SEEN AS INEVITABLE
      5th-28th? 1500-2000
('by U.S. military estimates')
'fighters'
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - April 30
News Source
-
Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
AP
-
DEAL OVER FALLUJAH REMAINS UNCERTAIN
 

 

 

5th-29th? 'more than' 600 - 'but figures disputed by IHM'  
Aljaz
-
11:04 Makka Time, 8:04 GMT
-
FLEEING CIVILIANS KILLED AS CRISIS DEEPENS
      5th-29th? 600  
IND
-
Baseem Mroue, AP
-
US MARINES BEING FALLUJAH PULLOUT
      5th-29th? 'more than' 600 - 'but figures disputed by IHM'  
AP
-
BASSEM MROUE
-
U.S. HANDS OVER SOME POSITIONS IN IRAQ
      5th-30th? 731 'many of them civilians'
AP
-
Lee Keath
-
AROUND 1,361 IRAQIS KILLED IN APRIL'S VIOLENCE, 10 TIMES THE U.S. DEATH TOLL
in week to 30th? 2
(woman and daughter) + 6 (other bodies recovered) + 2 (relatives of Dr. Ahmed Ghanim al-Ali) = 10
2 (min) to 10 (max) civilian 5th-30th;
5th-22nd;
5th-11th

731
(30th April update from Dr Rafie al-Issawi)
[2800 wounded]
271
(IHM, to 22nd)
300
(at one of the football fields, by the 11th)

 
REU
-
Michael Georgy
-
CUNNING ENEMY HITS U.S. MORALE IN IRAQ
'recent' pre-30th 1        
GUA
-
Luke Harding
-
'IT'S HELL...EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED'
28th and/or 29th 2 (women shot by snipers in streets of Jumhuriya) + 2 (Kalif Ali, 22 and Issam Shaker, 19, shot while attempting to leave)
=4
4/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 01
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Aljaz
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10:01 Makka Time, 7:01 GMT
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FAMILIES RETURN TO DEVASTATED FALLUJA
 

 

 

5th-30th? 600+  
GM
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ESTANISLAO OZIEWICZ
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BLOODY APRIL IN IRAQ MAY HAUNT U.S. PSYCHE
      5th-30th? 750 'residents of Fallujah'
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 02
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
OBS
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10:01 Makka Time, 7:01 GMT
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'WE'VE HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE OF US WEAPONS'
pre-30th

2

1 (min) 2 (max) civilian

5th-1st? 219
(one clinic only)
 
SH
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Trevor Royle
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AMERICAN CLIMBDOWN MAY SIGNAL WAY AHEAD AFTER CRUELLEST MONTH
        600+
('could be a conservative estimate')
 
Newsday
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JAMES RUPERT
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THE FALLOUT IN FALLUJAH
      5th-30th? 760
[2800 injured]
'mostly civlians'
Times
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Hala Jaber
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FOCUS: CITY OF DEATH
5th-30th?
18th-20th? (baby Asmaa)
1
(13-yr-old) + 27 (all members of Rabii Saleh Dahi's family)
+ 1 (one-yr-old Asmaa Almwan - prevented medical treatment)
=29
29/0      
JW
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Jo Wilding
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MAY 2ND - GOING HOME
5th-30th? 1
(Sejad, one-yr-old nephew of Nazar)
1/0 5th-2nd 'several hundred, at least'  

SFC
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Coiln Freeman
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MARINES TURN OVER CONTROL OF FALLUJAH TO IRAQI GENERAL ONCE LOYAL TO HUSSEIN

      5th-30th? 'up to' 800 (presumably not including US soldiers)  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 03
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
REU
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Joseph Logan
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FALLUJA TURNS OUT TO BURY DEAD AFTER U.S. PULLBACK
pre-30th? 1 (daughter of Hamid Eisawy) +20 (bodies recovered on 2nd?) + 7 ('spies')
=28
       
IPS
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Aaron Glantz
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VICTORY RISES ABOVE A MASS GRAVE
early to mid-April? 2 (middle-aged woman and husband) +1 (clinicl volunteer) +3 (18 and 13-yr-old cousins of Ahmed Saud Muhasin al-Isawi, and a niece)=6 (niece's 8 children also missing) 6/0 5th-30th? 300 (one football field)  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 04
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Star Trib.
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Gwynne Dyer
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GWYNNE DYER: IT LOOKS AS IF GAME IS UP FOR AMERICANS IN IRAQ
        'better part of a thousand people' 'TV crews in the city making it clear that a high proportion of the victims were civilians killed by American snipers'
Hi Pak
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AFZAAL MAHMOOD
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WORSENING CHAOS IN IRAQ
  40+ (est.)
( 'scores of patients' died due to 'makeshift arrangements' after hospital was cut off from city)
       
BBC
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Caroline Hawley
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AFTER THE FIGHT, FURY IN FALLUJA
5th-30th? 36 (neighbours of Ali Hassan: families of three brothers) +2 (children in unmarked graves)
=38
38/0      
SFC
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Colin Freeman
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VISITING A CHANGED FALLUJAH
'few days' prior to 4th May; 11th April 1 (Ghazi al Turkiye, alleged spy) + 1 (16-year-old Nazar Allawi Mahedi) 2/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 05
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
GUA
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BY SHARON'S STANDARDS
 

 

 

5th-30th? (estimates of)
300-750
'one UN figure says that 90% of the dead are civilians'
ABC(AU)
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Rafael Epstein reports
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AM - UN WANTS INQUIRY INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN FALLUJAH
      5th-30th? 'reports of' 750 dead '...and 90 per cent of them are non-combatants'

GL
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Doug Lorimer
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IRAQ: FALLUJAH BATTLE GALVANISES HATRED OF US OCCUPIERS

post-5th 12 (in neighbouring village of Naamiya) 12 (max) civilians      
BBC
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Caroline Hawley
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EYEWITNESS: FALLUJA'S GRIEF AND DEFIANCE
5th-30th? 1 (taxi driver ferrying wounded) +36 ('members of one extended family') +2 (baby girls)
=39
36/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 06
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
IRIN
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IRAQ: CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN FALLUJAH CROSSFIRE TELL THEIR STORY
24th

13 (relatives of Muhaye Ahmed, in village on outskirts of Falluja)

 

'last three weeks' 'up to' 700  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 07
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NS
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"WE WILL FIGHT THEM AGAIN!"
pre-7th May

3 (mother and two daughters) +1 (old man wearing jacket) +1 (man in track suit) +3 (women in car fleeing city) +1 (woman hanging clothes on rooftop)
=8

7 (min) 8 (max) civilians

5th April-May 7th? 'nearly 500 graves' (in one cemetery)  
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 08
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
LAT
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Alissa J. Rubin
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FALLOUJA'S FIGHTERS TRADE WEAPONS, NOT ALLEGIANCES
5th-30th

1 (father of 28-yr-old Yassir Harhoush)

 

     
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 09
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
CT
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DEBORAH HORAN
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FALLOUJA'S FIGHTERS TRADE WEAPONS, NOT ALLEGIANCES
8th

1 (father of 28-yr-old Yassir Harhoush)

1/0

5th-7th?

'About' 700;
336 (buried in one soccer stadium)

'158 women'
KR
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ROBERT MORAN
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WITH U.S. MARINES GONE, QUIET RETURNS TO BATTLE-SCARRED FALLUJAH
      5th April-9th May? 800+
(update)
[3000+ wounded]
 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 11
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NS
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Dahr Jamail
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ACCOUNTS OF ATROCITIES EMERGE FROM THE RUBBLE OF FALLUJAH
11th 1 (Jabul Nezzar Raad, brother of Jabur Khani Raad) +1 (Hussein Mohammad Jergi, mentally disabled man, mutilated then shot)
=2
2/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 14
News Source
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Author
-
Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
IPS
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Dahr Jamail
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SUNNIS AND SHIAS UNITING AGAINST U.S.
      5th-30th?

800+

 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - May 21
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
NS
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Dahr Jamail
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FALLUJAH DOCTORS REPORT U.S. FORCES OBSTRUCTED MEDICAL CARE IN APRIL
5th-30th? 1 (man attempting to rescue wounded ambulance driver) +1 (another ambulance driver) +1 (patient in ambulance that was sniped)
=3
3/0      
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - June 03
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Tel
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Colin Freeman
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'WE'RE PAYING THE MUJAHIDEEN NOT TO SHOOT AT US'
      April- May?
(or typo? - clashes began approx. 'six weeks' ago - also see SFC 04 May by same author)

800+

 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - June 25
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
GUA
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
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'THIS IS THE ONLY FUN THE KIDS GET - SHOOTING AT THE US SITTING DUCKS'
      5th-30th?l

800+

 
IBC Extracted Falluja Deaths Specific / Cumulative - July 19
News Source
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Author
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Title
Date killed? Total Civilian / Fighter Date range? Total Civilian / Fighter
Aljaz
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Ahmed Janabi
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FALLUJANS: USE OIL CASH TO REBUILD HOMES
      late March-April

800+

'mostly civilians'