Wednesday, 11 October, 2006
- 11 Oct 06, 05:44 PM
On we examine figures published in The Lancet which suggest that more than 600,000 Iraqis have died since the 2003 invasion. Paul Mason reports - and you can read his analysis of the figures here.
And forget shopkeepers, is Britain becoming a nation of shoplifters? Some want non-custodial sentences for a crime which has risen by 70% in the last six years and cost business 拢2.1bn last year. What would stop the theives then?
We find out if it was Groundhog Day at the All Party Talks on Northern Ireland.
Finally, Steve Smith goes in search of Chuck Berry.
As ever, your thoughts are welcome...
To many, he's the king of rock 'n' roll. He's also its first outlaw.
Imagine an Iraqi village with about 14,000 inhabitants. In the year before the invasion, 82 people in that village die - two violently. In the three years after the invasion 547 people die, 300 violently. Of the 300, 77 die in explosions, 169 in shootings. Twenty six children die in air strikes. I have never been to Iraq but that picture does not jar with my mental image of what's been going on: particularly as 2/3 of the violent deaths are the result of insurgency or incipient civil war rather than "coalition military action".