Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Whoopsie! 6,000 Dead!

Four weeks into Baghdad's latest security crackdown, the U.N. is reporting a civilian death rate of over 3,000 per month, or 6,000 dead since May. This is about twice the pace of the first part of the year, and while the figure is for Iraq as a whole, Baghdad is the scence of most of the violence.

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