non-combatant civilian deaths

can include according to Carol

someone's ancient grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep.

Interesting. Each day I learn something new in English.

Carol,

I never would have bothered with your or Bearded Bruce's way of expressing the causes of the deaths in Iraq. McGrath of Harlow's (or should it be McGrath's of Harlow?) one-eyed selectivity in when or whom he criticises in these threads was my target. In particular, since the two sentences were so close to each other in form and time. His critique of such sentences is of course correct.

Wolfgang