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Bush says report of 655,000 Iraqi dead not credible
11 Oct 2006 15:36:57 GMT
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday described as not credible a study showing 655,000 Iraqis had died in violence since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

"I don't consider it a credible report," Bush said of a study by a team of American and Iraqi public health experts that calculated about 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence.
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) speaks next to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a news conference in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad October 18, 2006. Maliki travelled to the holy city of Najaf on Wednesday and met Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leading Shi'ite cleric in Iraq.