Just to add a few shades of reality to this debate
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So two meetings at Nato HQ in which the agenda was civilian casualties. The only possible reason for these figures to be classified is as CirrusF says because they were supplied by an ally, for which read: the US.
This is typical over-classification of data - which leads the whole system into disrepute - and this stinks of a British officer being arrested, yet again, on the say-so of his US counterparts as per Stankovic.