"There are no accurate estimates of the number of Iraqi children wounded or killed in this violence. Claire Hajaj, a spokeswoman for UNICEF in Amman, Jordan, says it's easily into the thousands." cnn.com,   December 18, 2007 1509-3 Village Drive, Wilmington, NC 28401   ~   (910) 799-2070 "Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) estimates that over 1,400 Afghan civilians have lost their lives and hundreds of others have been wounded in armed hostilities, aerial strikes, suicide attacks and improvised explosions in the past 11 months. Although there is no verified data on the exact number of non-combatant victims of the ongoing violence in Afghanistan, children are believed to be among the main victims, said Hangama Anwari, a commissioner on the rights of children at the AIHRC." U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,   January, 28, 2008