British backtrack on Iraq death toll By Jill Lawless Published: 27 March 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2396031.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6040054.stm British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday. The Government publicly rejected the findings, published in The Lancet in October. But the BBC said documents obtained under freedom of information legislation showed advisers concluded that the much-criticised study had used sound methods.... 600,000 lives. Who's the terrorist now?