Posted on 08/26/2007 3:13:09 AM PDT by Soliton
BAGHDAD - This year's U.S. troop buildup has succeeded in bringing violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago.
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Iraq is suffering about double the number of war-related deaths throughout the country compared with last year - an average daily toll of 33 in 2006, and 62 so far this year.
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So far this year, about 14,800 people have died in war-related attacks and sectarian murders. AP reporting accounted for 13,811 deaths in 2006.
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Moderator.. The Title above is the one used by the Minneapolis Star Review. Forbes used: “Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace” for the same AP story. Sorry, I thaought I changed it.
Tribune not review, Sheesh. I’m tired.
And how many of them were fake AP reports?
Also no account for the fact that a record number of terrorists are being killed since the surge. Guess dead terrorists are included in "civilian" casualties.
Using stupid stats is an MSM trick and our highway deaths have no relation to anything, but it is the type of crap these yahoos use to make up their story and sell a headline of "We are losing and that is why we are hated." they are terrible at getting real news and putting 2 and 2 together. Why someone is dying in Iraq - 33 or 60 a day - is known not because they have good data, but because they have chosen to use crappy data to tell the we are losing story. / rant off
I’ve noticed that the suicide bombs this year kill more people per bomb than last year. Better and bigger bombs coming in from Iran??? So IF the AP is right (a very big IF) and deaths are up, the number of atttacks are down...
Max Clelland just used the bogus double deaths statistic with Blitzer
It would be nice when news people figured out that 35% of their readers are Republicans and 15 votin independents who are getting facts and are turned off by lies. Then their sales might not be in free fall.
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