Rights group says wrongful bombing killed 1,000 in gulf From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: November 17, 1991| Author: Melissa Healy | Copyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

WASHINGTON In 43 days of intense aerial bombardment, the United States and its allies may have killed as many as 1,000 Iraqi civilians and destroyed 240 dwellings in Iraq in attacks that violated international law, the human-rights organization Middle East Watch contends.

Those "needless deaths" represent about a third of the 3,000 Iraqi civilians who probably perished in allied air raids, the watchdog group said in a 402-page report made public Saturday.

A "substantially la...

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