The number of Iraqis killed over the past 18 months is unknown. The website * Iraq Body Count* estimates at least 11,800 Iraqi civilians have been killed but some estimates put the Iraqi civilian death toll three times as high. Yesterday Rumsfeld said U.S-backed forces had killed between 1,500 2,500 Iraqis in the past month alone. He claimed the dead were * “former regime elements, criminals, terrorists.”* In Fallujah, the U.S. launched another large attack reportedly killing 100 Iraqis. The New York Times is reporting that the U.S.-backed Iraqi government * has no control over Fallujah* and other cities in the Sunni Triangle.