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==Project statement== The IBC overview page states: <blockquote> "This is an ongoing human security project which maintains and updates the world's only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies. The count includes civilian deaths caused by coalition military action and by military or paramilitary responses to the coalition presence (e.g. insurgent and terrorist attacks). It also includes excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion."<ref name="overview">{{cite web|url=http://www.iraqbodycount.org/background.php|title=Iraq Body Count. Background and overview.}}</ref> </blockquote> The project quotes the top US general in Iraq, [[Tommy Franks]], as saying "We don't do body counts". Franks gave this terse answer ("You know we don't do body counts") at Bagram Air Base in answer to journalists' questions on counting casualties during [[Operation Anaconda]] in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/success-in-afghan-war-hard-to-gauge-u-s-2861604.php | title=Success in Afghan war hard to gauge / U.S. Reluctance to produce body counts makes proving enemy's destruction difficult | newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle | last1=Epstein | first1=Edward }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=David |title=We don't do body counts. A study of the Pentagon and the Controversy of Civilian Casualties in Modern Warfare |journal=CONCEPT. Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies |date=30 November 2005 |volume=29 |url=https://concept.journals.villanova.edu/article/view/264}}</ref>
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