Ministry of Defence: Iraq mortality study "robust"

Some of you might remember that last fall the UK's premiere medical journal, published a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins that estimated deaths due to war-related violence in Iraq since March 2003 at approximately 600,000, or about 2.5% of the country's population.   Immediately the British and American governments dismissed the report as unrepresentative and problematic on other counts, but this week BBC's Freedom of Information request revealed that Blair's government had been advised (by its own defense department) that the study was robust and reliable: Story on the BBC website.