They may have offered a "range", but they consider 100,000 to be a conservative number. They would make that number more than twice that high if they included the area around Fallujah.


"Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since the US-led invasion last year, according to public health experts who estimate there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.

The US-based researchers found that the risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than before the war.

The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by US air strikes on towns and cities, they said.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1230305.htm

And this is, of course, only taking the first 18 months into consideration.