Iraqi Death toll 150, 000

[Allmusic]

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Iraqis estimate civilian deaths at 150,000
Count comes amid fear of rise in violence
By Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press | November 10, 2006</p>

<p>BAGHDAD – A stunning new death count emerged yesterday, as Iraq’s health minister estimated 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war – about three times previously accepted estimates.</p>

<p>Health Minister Ali al-Shemari gave his new estimate of 150,000 to reporters during a visit to Vienna . He later said that he based the figure on an estimate of 100 bodies per day brought to morgues and hospitals – though such a calculation would come out closer to 130,000 in total.</p>

<p>he head of the Baghdad central morgue said yesterday he was receiving as many as 60 violent death victims each day at his facility alone. Dr. Abdul-Razzaq al-Obaidi said those deaths did not include victims of violence whose bodies were taken to the city’s many hospital morgues or those who were removed from attack scenes by relatives and quickly buried according to Muslim custom.</p>

<p>Obaidi said the morgue had received 1,600 violent death victims in October, one of the bloodiest months of the conflict. US forces suffered 105 deaths last month, the fourth highest monthly toll.</p>

<p>At least 45 Iraqis were killed or found dead in continuing sectarian violence yesterday, with 16 of the victims killed in bombings at Baghdad markets. For the fifth straight day, insurgent and militia mortar teams traded fire in the capital’s northern neighborhoods.

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<p>A civil war…this has been the result of the US misbegotten invasion.</p>

[lealdragon]

<p>Thanks so much for posting this. I’d read the Lancet report about a year ago, and at that time it was just over 100,000, so I was wondering what the current figure was.</p>

<p>Why is this not given more exposure? People always talk about the US soldiers that have been killed, and that is awful, but equally awful is all those Iraqi citizens. And this was supposed to be a ‘liberation’???</p>

<p>Most people don’t seem to even know about these figures. They should. It is an atrocity!!!</p>

[barrons]

<p>A civil war that goes back over 400 years of hatred. It was going to happen sooner or later. Might as well get it done and then separate the two factions, permanently. Throwing them together was an historical error.</p>