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11/25/2004:

"US Profits From Jihadist Terrorism"

One sincerely hopes that there will be no further "jihadist" attacks on America for two major reasons: (1) for obvious humanitarian reasons - any avoidable innocent death is a tragedy; and (2) there would clearly be a subsequent huge killing of people in the Muslim world by US forces as seen in the post-9/11 carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The total "excess mortality" in Iraq (post-2003 invasion) has so far been about 0.3 million (estimate based on scientific data in The Lancet, on-line, 29 October, 2004) and in Afghanistan (post-2001 invasion) it has been 1.2 million (a conservative estimate based on UN data).

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