Meanwhile for the first time the Pentagon has issued a tally of Iraqi casualties–but only of those killed or injured by insurgents. In a report to Congress, the Pentagon said insurgents have killed or wounded nearly 26,000 Iraqis between January 2004 and September. The figure includes members of Iraq’s security forces. Between January and March of last year, there were an estimated 26 casualties a day. That figure has since more than doubled to 64 casualties a day. The Pentagon refuses to release a figure for Iraqi civilians killed or wounded by the US-led coalition. A study in the British medical journal Lancet a year go said about 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the war on Iraq, mostly by US air strikes.