Consolation payment
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Consolation payments is payment given to relatives of civilians who have died accidentally.

US Representative John Murtha
John Murtha
John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. was an American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010....

has said that the United States has paid $5 million in consolation payments to the Iraqis in 2004 and $20 million in 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13296235/page/3/.
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