1.03.2007
U.S. Seeks Kiwi's Advice on Predicting Iraq Attacks (NZHerald.co.nz)
Wednesday January 03, 2007
By Martin Johnston
A New Zealand academic who has challenged a widely quoted estimate of the death toll in Iraq has been invited to go to Washington and advise the United States military on ways of predicting attacks.
Dr Sean Gourley, 27, a research fellow at Oxford University in Britain, created a stir in scientific circles when he and a colleague dismissed a claim by other researchers that the American-led invasion of Iraq had led to the deaths of nearly 655,000 Iraqis.
That figure is at least 10 times higher than estimates from Iraq's Government and US authorities.
Dr Gourley and his colleague Professor Neil Johnson believe the figure is 218,000 Iraqi deaths.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > National News)
By Martin Johnston
A New Zealand academic who has challenged a widely quoted estimate of the death toll in Iraq has been invited to go to Washington and advise the United States military on ways of predicting attacks.
Dr Sean Gourley, 27, a research fellow at Oxford University in Britain, created a stir in scientific circles when he and a colleague dismissed a claim by other researchers that the American-led invasion of Iraq had led to the deaths of nearly 655,000 Iraqis.
That figure is at least 10 times higher than estimates from Iraq's Government and US authorities.
Dr Gourley and his colleague Professor Neil Johnson believe the figure is 218,000 Iraqi deaths.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > National News)
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