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Table 3 Most violent events and number of casualties reported by IBC and SIGACT

From: Views to a war: systematic differences in media and military reporting of the war in Iraq

Date

Event

IBC report

SIGACT report

August 31, 2005

Baghdad bridge stampede*

965-1,005

436

November 23, 2006

Sadr City car and mortar bombings†

215

181

April 18, 2007

Baghdad car bombings‡

140

115

February 3, 2007

Baghdad market bombing§

136-137

105

  1. *‘A cry of suicide bomber, and 700 perish in Iraq stampede’, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/01/iraq.rorycarroll1 (accessed: 08/07/2013)
  2. †‘Iraq, Nov 23, 2006: A Day in Hell’, Spiegel Online, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/iraq-nov-23-2006-a-day-in-hell-a-722544.html (accessed: 08/07/2013)
  3. ‡‘Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs’, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6567329.stm (accessed: 08/07/2013)
  4. §‘Terror takes toll on market, vendors’, The Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/6/20070206-115808-3925r/ (accessed: 08/07/2013)