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US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs: US Troops Abused Prisoners Years After Abu Ghraib Marcus Baram 2010
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US and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs: US Troops Abused Prisoners Years After Abu Ghraib Marcus Baram 2010
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Their report concluded there was credible evidence the military may have killed tens of thousands of civilians in deliberate attacks on non-combatant targets such as hospitals.
Sri Lanka Issues Report & Documentary To Dispute War Crimes Claims 2011
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The only way Goldstone could really exonerate Israel would be to prove that the hundreds of non-combatant dead, including all those kids, were, in fact, not civilians at all.
MJ Rosenberg: Goldstone's Edit Changes Nothing MJ Rosenberg 2011
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"We take all reports of non-combatant casualties very seriously and investigate these claims with the assistance of our Afghan forces counterparts," said Lt.Col. Rick Helmer, U.S. Forces Afghanistan spokesperson.
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But Mark Mix of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund says conservatives will remember that Mr. Daniels chose to be a non-combatant in a fight that was almost won.
Daniels in the Lions Den John Fund 2011
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She spoke after a warning by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he might curb NATO operations because of non-combatant deaths.
Clinton: NATO Committed to Reducing Afghan Civilian Deaths 2011
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She spoke after a warning by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he might curb NATO operations because of non-combatant deaths.
Clinton: NATO Committed to Reducing Afghan Civilian Deaths 2011
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Yet, one cannot criticize the Israelis by attacking the morally disgusting position espoused by the Goldfarbs of this world, namely that that the attack was justified because of the deaths of his non-combatant family members.
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I think the guy who sets off the “bomb in the baby carriage ... wired to the radio” is more likely hiding than posing as a non-combatant.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations 2010
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