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34,452 Iraq civilians said killed in '06

by mtippett | January 16, 2007 at 11:18 pm | 490 views | add comment

I don't even know how to categorize this story. Politics seems too trite. Environment seems to encompass the calamity but emergency seems the best fit:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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.

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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.