Iraq Body Count’s John Sloboda? - NO THANK YOU!

Dear friends,

Iraq Body Count’s John Sloboda gave an interview to the BBC and published on IBC’s website “Speculation is no substitute: a defence of Iraq Body Count”.

In the interview and in the “Speculation is no substitute: a defence of Iraq Body Count”, Sloboda insults Media Lens, John Pilger, Dahr Jamail, Les Roberts, Stephen Soldz and myself (but I assure you, I am delighted to be in such a wonderful company and I hope to deserve such an honor!)

Our crime: we dared to ask a few questions about IBC.

Also, he completely denigrates the Lancet study and says: “We've always said our work is an undercount, you can't possibly expect that a media-based analysis will get all the deaths. Our best estimate is that we've got about half the deaths that are out there.”

This means that according to Sloboda and IBC there would be at maximum 70,000 civilians killed. But you should read the article. There is much more!

This is the link

Please, note that Sloboda gave the interview to the BBC, calling it “responsible media”.

The “responsible media”, after the interview to Sloboda and the reply from Media Lens, published an article By David Fuller, Virtual war follows Iraq conflict. You can read it here

Media Lens’ editors commented: “This is actually pretty good by mainstream standards, given that it's us under the media microscope. Many of the facts are just plain wrong” and then explain their reasons. You may read this here

I don’t know what the other people insulted by Sloboda think or will do.

I just wanted to pass the info, so people may think about it.

In solidarity,
Gabriele Zamparini

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Iraq Body Count - John Pilger responds

PLEASE NOTE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ARTICLE HOW THE BBC'S JOURNALIST INTRODUCE JOHN PILGER: "campaigning journalist John Pilger"


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And this is an excerpt from Sloboda's interview:

"I think it's because we don't fit into their worldview. The hard left and the hard right, they're both utterly rigid, and the stuff that's going on in the middle, they can't handle.

They want certainty. They want something they can latch onto and say - this is what I believe.

They like the sense of being a beleaguered minority.

What's most chilling is if you look at people's allegiance to much more dangerous causes than either of our critics are adopting. This is also the mindset that draws angry young men towards terrorism. And it's ultimately self-destructive." - John Sloboda, "the man behind Iraq Body Count"

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Iraq Body Count – The acceptable face of slaughter?
by William Bowles