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Afghanistan war: every death mapped

Between 2004 and 2009, data released by Wikileaks last year shows 24,498 deaths - over 4,000 of them civilians caught up in the conflict. As Barack Obama announces a drawdown of US troops there, we have taken that data and mapped it. Click on a dot to see what happened there, or the arrow at the bottom to zoom into areas of the map. Or filter the data by type of casualty - and download it for yourself

Chilling.

I remember standing in my friend's sitting room in Dublin on 11 September 2001, wondering aloud with my friends who the US would bomb first.

In October, I watched the television at another friend's house in Connecticut, digesting images of warplanes shooting missiles at one of the poorest countries in the world. People on both sides of the political spectrum seemed to have lost their minds in the post-9/11 bloodlust; it was hot-headed and poorly thought out.

As Noam Chomsky said at the time, if bombing Afghanistan made sense because al-Qaida was based there, then it would have made sense for Britain to have bombed Boston in response to I.R.A. terrorist bombings.

My brother in law will be doing his ninth tour in Afghanistan soon; and as much as I worry for his sake, and the other Americans and Europeans fighting there, I can't help but feel worse for the civilians of Afghanistan who had nothing to do with any of this, and who have suffered so much at the hands of various super powers.

Chilling, and shameful.

Having filtered the categories by each individual incident result, what's clear - even when viewing all of the categories together from the start of the data collected from its inset in 2004 - is the high amount of casualties/ fatalities in the region bordering Pakistan. This I’m sure we’ve know for sometime, but adds as further “evidence” for the Government of Pakistan to admit they need to control their border or face more drone attacks.

Yes, Afghanistan shares its border with other countries, including Iran, but Pakistan has for all these years now, in the USA's longest war, been surely the starting point for many of the "enemy" and not Afghanistan natives - apart from the Taliban.

My point being, like many think I'm sure, is what the hell are we doing in Afghanistan, still?

Some things cannot be sufficiently 'mapped'.

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