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Leaked files: death toll
The classified reports contain detailed logs of fatalities - both military and civilian.

Afghanistan expert and author Stephen Grey, who wrote Operation Snakebite, has analysed the data for Channel 4 News and calculated the number of deaths revealed in the report.

• Enemy killed : 15,506
• Civilians killed : 4,232
• Afghan Army (ANA) killed : 3,819
• Nato forces killed : 1,138

The 'underreporting' of civilian deaths by NATO forces

In 2008, a AC-130 "Spectre" gunship carried out a ground attack on the village of Azizabad in Herat Province. The target was a Taliban commander. The report at the time said that no civilians had died. It only refers to 30 insurgents killed in action.

In fact, according to a UN report, 90 civilians died - 60 of them children as well as 15 women.
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In September 2006, troops taking part in Operation Medusa moved into a large area around Panjwayi, west of Kandahar, and a known Taliban stronghold.

A Nato report found that 31 civilians had died - 20 of them from the same extended family following an airstrike.

The leaked documents record 181 civilian deaths.

Source: TheREALNews Network