[chudogg]

The same students were asked how many people were estimated to have been killed during bombing raids in Afghanistan in the subsequent war. Only 2% of the students knew the correct answer: approximately 20,000.

I wonder where they got this number, are they lumping Al Qaida and the Taliban in with the civilian population? I remember a study by a leftist professor from UNH(?) that concluded 4,000 civillian casulties, and it was a widely touted figure afterwards. His sources of course came from Al-Jazeera and Taliban officials claiming civilian casualites. I was thought the real number was more like two to five hundred.

[Irene Adler]

"...approximately 20,000...." "I wonder where they got this number..."

Me, too. It seems way inflated.