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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Hiding the bodies in Iraq

Iraq is not even as good as the reporting.
The Iraqi government withheld recent casualty figures from the United Nations, fearing they would be used to present a grim picture of Iraq that would undermine the coalition's security efforts, U.N. officials said Wednesday.....

"While government officials claimed an initial drop in the number of killings in the latter half of February following the launch of the Baghdad security plan, the number of reported casualties rose again in March," the UNAMI study said.
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posted by mikevotes at 10:14 AM

2 Comments:

  • I wonder, after they start executing deserters, will that pile onto the body count?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:29 PM  

  • Maybe, but probably not.

    The past metric has been Iraqi civilians and security forces killed violently, but part of this "dispute" is that the Iraqi government is redefining the categories (which just coincidentally revises the number downward.)

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:15 PM  

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