Gabriele Zamparini writes to John Sloboda: shut down your website

Dear Prof. John Sloboda,
Co-founder, analyst and press spokesperson IRAQ BODY COUNT

As you surely know, a new ORB poll suggests a total of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than a natural death such as old age).

Juan Cole commented, “The combination of the two, however, makes the Lancet study's conclusions seem unassailable and if anything conservative.”

The Iraq Body Count’s criticism of the two Lancet studies, as published by your website and by many mainstream and alternative media, was wrong.

The many attempts by IBC and you personally to discredit the Lancet’s and its authors have helped in generating a propaganda campaign used by the warmongers to keep carry on the carnage.

I’m writing today not to look at the past, but to ask you to do one thing now and to do it without delay. One thing you should have done, in my view, long time ago.

Please, shut down your website and withdraw all IBC’s counters.

You may continue your valuable research in private and far from the attention of the media and those warmongers responsible for this genocidal carnage.

I am sure your sense of humanity and compassion will agree with this request.

Thank you

Sincerely,
Gabriele Zamparini
London