Charlie Savage’s Twitter Archive—№ 10,990

DOD has issued the report Congress now makes it put out every year by law listing civilian deaths from its operations around the world. media.defense.gov/2019/May/02/2002126767/-1/-1/1/ANNUAL-REPORT-CIVILIAN-CASUALTIES-IN-CONNECTION-WITH-US-MILITARY-OPERATIONS.PDF
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This is the report the Trump admin cited to justify rescinding the Obama-era order requiring annual disclosure of civilian deaths from out-of-warzone counterterrorism airstrikes and commando raids, though this report omits CIA drone strikes. nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/trump-civilian-casualties-rule-revoked.html
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DOD's official civilian bystander/collateral damage numbers for 2018 are: Iraq & Syria: 42 deaths and 7 injuries. Afghanistan: 76 deaths and 58 injuries. Yemen: 0 deaths and 0 injuries Somalia: 2 deaths and 0 injuries Libya: 0 deaths and 0 injuries
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Notably DOD redid the 2017 numbers for Iraq and Syria during the big fighting of the ISIS war. In the report for 2017 last year DOD's self-reported global totals were 499 civilian deaths, but it also said it was still investigating 450 incidents. nytimes.com/2018/06/01/us/politics/pentagon-civilian-casualties.html
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The revised DOD official numbers for the Iraq and Syria war theater in 2017 are: 793 deaths and 206 injuries
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