The White House has denied figures included in a study by American and Iraqi researchers and published recently in the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet and suggesting that more than 650,000 people have been killed in the U.S.-led war on Iraq, a country of about 27 million, which means that 2.5 percent of the Iraqi population has died because of the invasion.http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=11847
