Baghdad death toll increases to 60 a day

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Michael Howard in Irbil
Thursday August 10, 2006
The Guardian

Deaths from sectarian strife in Baghdad are reaching unprecedented levels, with the central morgue yesterday reporting a sharp rise in the number of corpses it received during July.

Officials said 1,815 bodies - about 60 a day - had passed through its doors last month compared with 1,595 in June. Of those, 90% were reported to have suffered violent deaths.

"Most of the cases have gunshot wounds to the head," Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, the morgue's assistant manager, told Reuters. "Some of them were strangled and others were beaten to death with clubs."


The figure is the highest monthly toll since February, when an attack on the Shia shrine in Samarra by suspected al-Qaida militants unleashed a wave of tit-for-tat killings between Baghdad's Shia and Sunni communities.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1840819,00.html

[wanpete]

1. how very sad. this administration and the neocons think that an iraqi

life has no, or very little value. I'm scared for how the * administration is making us so isolated and hated in this world. I like Ned Lamont's slogan of foreign policy that starts with respect. That has been lost in the fear and warmongering of this current disaster of an administration.

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2. Lots of wisdom in that little slogan

[karlrschneider]

3. It's NOT a civil war so stop saying that!

It's just "untidy" over there...
;-)