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BAGHDAD — Along with the good news that August was the first month without any U.S. troop deaths in Iraq comes a grim statistic: More than 12,000 Iraqi civilians have died in suicide bomb attacks since the war began, according to a new study.
The report, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, says that 12,284 civilians died in 1,003 suicide bomb attacks in Iraq from March 2003 to the end of 2010, about 11 percent of the civilian deaths from armed violence in those years.
In contrast, 79 suicide attacks on coalition forces caused 200 deaths, the study said, about 4 percent of coalition deaths during the period.
Denver Post wire services
