Iraq Minister: War Dead Reach 70,000; 11 Killed Today
Monday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 22 Wounded
Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shayaa al-Sudani said that the casualty toll, since 2003, has reached 70,000 killed and 250,000 wounded. Also, there are considerable numbers of widows and orphans. This figure is considered conservative. Iraq Body Count presents a much higher number of civilian deaths, while the ORB study placed the number of total deaths at well over a million. Due to several factors, it is virtually impossible to give an accurate figure and all numbers are estimates.
A spokesman for the Iraqiya bloc said that the party would try to convince Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to return to Baghdad to stand trial on terrorism charges, if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will implement the terms of the Arbil Agreement. Turkey has refused to hand over Hashemi who traveled there last month.
Maliki was recently given 15 days in which to implement the terms, which were agreed to in 2010, or face a "no confidence" vote. The 15-day period ends on Friday. The head of Ahrar blocm Baha al-Aaraji, said it should be enough to agree to the terms again because some of them will take more time than given.
Martin Kobler, head of the U.N. mission in Iraq, said, "all our figures indicate that there is no deterioration in the security situation of the country" and that 600 people have, so far, died in violence this year.
Meanwhile, at least 11 Iraqis were killed today and 22 more were wounded in a second day of attacks focusing on Anbar province.
Three bombs in Falluja left a wake of destruction. The first bomb blast killed five people and wounded eight. At least one person was killed and ten more people were wounded in two more attacks. Three more bombs were defused. A curfew is in place.
In Mosul, two civilians were killed and three policemen were wounded when a bomb exploded.
A bomb at the Hamrin home of a KDP member exploded, killing his mother and wounding his wife.
An intelligence agent was killed in a sticky bomb blast in Kirkuk.
Police killed a gunman in Amiriyat al-Falluja.
Read more by Margaret Griffis
- Twenty Killed in Attacks Focused on Iraqi Security Forces – May 23rd, 2013
- 31 Killed in Iraq, Including 12 Slaughtered in a Baghdad Brothel – May 22nd, 2013
- Sixty Killed, 132 Wounded in Ongoing Iraq Carnage – May 21st, 2013
- Monday Mayhem: 133 Killed, 283 Wounded in Iraq – May 20th, 2013
- Iraqi Police Targeted As Attacks Claim 44 Lives – May 19th, 2013
yaridanjo
May 15th, 2012 at 3:30 am
Try these numbers instead.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/19/95636/544…
It's 5:34 AM in Baghdad
September of last year the Iraqi casualty report from ORB estimated civilian deaths at 1,220,580 to as many as 1,446,063. This minute in time, the official estimate sets at 1.3 million. Another 1.5 million are maimed, blinded, burned and broken.
Approximately 3.4 million Iraqis have fled their country since the onset of the war.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL304…
Iraq conflict has killed a million Iraqis: survey
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210309.htm
Iraqi Holocaust : 2.3 Million Iraqi Excess Deaths
http://www.alternet.org/world/70886/?page=entire
Occupation's Toll: 5 Million Iraqi Children Orphaned
Unlike orphans in many countries in the world, most Iraqi orphans lost their parents around the same time and under horrible circumstances.
December
May 15th, 2012 at 8:36 am
Wikileaks has at least 109,000 killed in Iraq from May 2004 to March 2009.
In A FOIA request the Pentagon admits 77,000 killed Iraqies from 2004 to mid-2008.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikleaks-dumps-tho…
December
May 15th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
It's interesting how the Iraq minister gives figures less the US military at 109,000 killed and EVEN LESS than the Pentagon at 77,000 killed. The Iraq minister is very kind to the US military and the Pentagon. The US admits to more yet Iraq's minister says it really less. How does that happen? The Pentagon wants to put a positive spin to things (e.g. the Pentagon's retired generals scandal, whistleblower on lies of the progress in Afghanistan) so their figures are questionable and probably part of some deception. Plus the Pentagon numbers came from a shorter time range up to mid-2008, this compared to the Iraq minister's current number for the time range of 2003-2012. Iraq is kind to the occupiers.
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