User:Rangeley/Iraq War InfoboxTest
| Iraq War | |||||||||
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 U.S. troops pass by burning oil fields while convoying to Al Jawala, Iraq, during an operation. | |||||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||||
.svg){kind=small} Ba’athist Iraq Insurgent Forces:  Ba’ath Loyalists  Al-Qaeda in IraqMahdi Army |
 New Iraqi Army  Kurdish forces Coalition Forces:  United States  United Kingdom  South Korea  Australia
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| Commanders | |||||||||
| Saddam Hussein (captured, executed) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (dead, KIA) Abu Ayyub al-Masri Moqtada al-Sadr Hadi Al-Amiri
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Nouri al-Maliki George W. Bush Tommy Franks George Casey David Petraeus Tony Blair Brian Burridge Peter Wall
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Iraqi 375,000+ regular forces Sunni Insurgents 60,000[citation needed] Mahdi Army 60,000[1] [5] Badr Organization 4-10,000[citation needed] al Qaeda/others 1,300+[6] |
Coalition 315,000 invasion 147,000 current Contractors ~48,000 Kurds 50,000 (peak) New Iraqi Army 129,760 Iraqi Police 79-140,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties | |||||||||
| Iraqi military dead (Saddam-era): 4,895-6,370 [7] [8] Insurgents dead: No verifiable tally. [9] [10] |
Iraqi Security Forces dead (post-Saddam era): 12,000+ [11][12]
Iraqi Security Forces wounded: unknown Coalition dead (inc. 3,059 US, 130 UK, 123 other, *770 contractors): 4,082 [13] [14][15] Coalition Missing or Captured (US 2): 2 Coalition Wounded (inc. 22,951 U.S., 893+ UK, 3,963+ contractors): 27,808 [16] [13] [17] [18] [19] | ||||||||
| **Total deaths (all Iraqis) Johns Hopkins: 392,979 - 942,636 [20] [21] War-related and criminal violence deaths (all Iraqis) Iraq Health Minister: War-related and criminal violence deaths (civilians) Iraq Body Count-english language media only: | |||||||||
| *Contractors (U.S. government) = "former special forces soldiers to drivers, cooks, mechanics, plumbers, translators, electricians and laundry workers and other support personnel." [14] **Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. For explanations of the wide variation in casualty estimates, see: Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 | |||||||||
- ^ "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002". Thomas. 2002-10-2.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image". MSNBC. 2006-07-03.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Reid, Robert H. (2006-08-19). "America confronts reality in Iraq". MSNBC.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Annan: Life for Iraqis worse than with Saddam". MSNBC. 2006-12-04.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Bartholet, Jeffrey (2006-12-04). "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq". Newsweek.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Pincus, Walter. "Violence in Iraq Called Increasingly Complex". Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2006.
- ^ Conetta, Carl, "The Wages of War; Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict". Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph #8, 20 October 2003.
- ^ "FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq". Reuters, 13 November 2006.
- ^ Behn, Sharon (2006-07-26). "50,000 Iraqi insurgents dead, caught". Washington Times.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Civilian, insurgent deaths hard to tally". Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 8, 2004.
- ^ "Iraqi police deaths 'hit 12,000'." BBC. Dec. 24, 2006.
- ^ "iCasualties: OIF Iraqi Deaths".
- ^ a b Icasualties.org "Iraq Coalition Casualties".
- ^ a b "In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens". Bernd Debusmann, Reuters, Oct. 10, 2006.
- ^ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4492421.html
- ^ Kneisler, Patricia, et. al., "U.S. Wounded By Week". iCasualties (Lunaville), Benicia, CA.
- ^ "Toll of British wounded in Iraq war reaches 800". Times Online. 2006-01-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Civilian contractors in Iraq dying at faster rate as insurgency grows". McClatchy Washington Bureau. 2005-11-01.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Defence Internet | Fact Sheets | Operations in Iraq: British Casualties". UK Ministry of Defense.
- ^ ""Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey"" (PDF).. By Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, and Les Roberts. The Lancet, October 11, 2006
- ^ ""The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study, 2002-2006"" (PDF).. By Gilbert Burnham, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, and Les Roberts. A supplement to the second Lancet study.
- ^ "Iraqi death toll estimates go as high as 150,000". Taipei Times, Nov. 11, 2006.
- ^ Iraq Body Count project. Civilian deaths due to insurgent/military action and increased criminal violence. As reported by English-language media. Compiled by various antiwar activists.
- ^ "Iraq Body Count: War dead figures". BBC. 2006-09-24.
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