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34,452 Iraq Civilians Said Killed in '06
 Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months, and the United Nations reported 34,452 civilians were slain last year, nearly three times more than the government reported. Doesn't surprise me. I wonder if they dwell on the fact that most of them were bumped off by devout Islamists? A total of 142 Iraqis were killed or found dead Tuesday, in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiite targets. The sharp uptick in deadly attacks coincided with the release of U.N. figures that showed an average of 94 civilians died each day in sectarian bloodshed in 2006. The worst thing that we've done in this war was to go in and not kill large numbers of bad guyz. Had they been ruthlessly hunted down and killed in droves then the casualties would have been confined to the guys in uniform or who should have been in uniform, with fairly minimal collateral casualties. The blasts wrecked two small buses as students at Al-Mustansiriya University were lining up for the ride home at about 3:45 p.m., according to Taqi al-Moussawi, a university dean. The attackers stationed a man wearing a suicide belt in the expected path of fleeing students to take even more lives, but he was spotted and shot by security men before he could blow himself up, the dean said. "The only guilt of our martyred students is that they pursued education. They belong to all religions, sects and ethnic groups," said an angry al-Moussawi, himself a Shiite. "The terrorists want to stop education. ...Those students had nothing to do with politics." Posted by: Fred 2007-01-17 |
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