SADR CITY, IRAQ - APRIL 5: The body of a slain Iraqi teenager lies unclaimed at the Chawader hospital
SADR CITY, IRAQ - APRIL 5: The body of a slain Iraqi teenager lies unclaimed at the Chawader hospital (Getty Images)

Losing Count

May 04, 2007

Estimates of civilians killed in Iraq range from 60,000 to 600,000. Now the Iraqi government is clamping down on the last remaining source for official numbers. L.A. Times Baghdad correspondent Tina Susman says her paper is keeping count anyway.
More on this topic:
But Who’s Counting
Innocent Accounting Errors
The New Math

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