Half Million Iraqis to Suffer Serious Injuries in 1st Phase of War: U.N. Report

According to a confidential U.N. report, nearly 500,000 Iraqis are prone to suffer serious injuries during the first phase of an attack, British media reported Tuesday, January 8....

The BBC’s online news service said that the number “includes up to 100,000 wounded in combat, and another 400,000 hurt in the devastation expected during any U.S.-led attack on Iraq.”...

On December 29, In a letter sent to U.N. Sanctions Committee Man’m Al Qadi, Iraq's interim charge d’affaires in the U.N. said that a total of 1,614,303 people had died due to the stringent U.N. sanctions on the country since 1990 .
Al-Qadi said that the colossal human losses include 667,773 children under the age of five , the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.