Undercount study shows over half a million people killed in US purported 'war on terror' in 3 Muslim countries

By: AbdulKarim Ādam.

In a study conducted by  Neta C. Crawford a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University and Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University over half a million people were documented to have been killed from US 17 years purported 'war on terror' in three countries.

The report, which was published on Saturday by the Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs said that the toll includes civilians, armed fighters, local police and security forces, as well as US and allied troops killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

The report states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.

This figures are questionable because from BBC three series TV documentary "A dangerous Dynasty: The house of Assad" over half a million people were killed by Assad in 7 years of Syrian conflict.

The report was undercount due to the fact that not all death were reported and or documented, similarly reports from the defenders and expelers of the coalition forces have recorded a much more higher figures in these countries.

However, Crawford acknowledged that the number of people killed is an "undercount" due to limitations in reporting and "great uncertainty in any count of killing in war".

"We may never know the total direct death toll in these wars," wrote Nera Crawford, the author of the report titled "Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency".

"For example, tens of thousands of civilians may have died in retaking Mosul and other cities from ISIS but their bodies have likely not been recovered."

 The aftermath of the US-led coalition invasion of Afghanistan has shown that the war on terror was in reality a war on Islām as it spread to other Islāmic populated countries across the globe and have open new war frontiers like in Syria, Somalia, Mali, Nigeria, Central African Republic, China, Turkistan, Burma, India, Kenya, Iran, Yemen. We awaits the death figures from these fronts.