Annakins, 9.8.2006 14:48:
4) Irakissa kuolee lähes 60 ihmistä päivässä, mutta eipä se uutisissa enää hetkauta.
Almost 2,000 bodies taken to Baghdad morgue
(Recasts with latest figures from Baghdad morgue)
By Alister Bull
BAGHDAD, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Almost 2,000 bodies were brought to Baghdad's morgue last month, an official said on Wednesday, recording the highest number since an attack in February on a Shi'ite shrine that sparked a wave of sectarian bloodshed.
Morgue assistant manager, Doctor Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, told Reuters about 90 percent of the deaths were due to violence in the capital, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have stepped up their troops levels to combat sectarian bloodshed.
"Most of the cases have gunshot wounds to the head. Some of them were strangled and others were beaten to death with clubs," said Obaidi.
The morgue toll was a jump from 1,595 in June and is the largest number since the aftermath of the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra, blamed by the U.S. and Iraq on al Qaeda.
Iraq's health, interior and defence ministries consistently provide lower figures than those released by the morgue.
Figures from those ministries showed about 1,000 civilians were killed across Iraq in July in "terrorism" attacks in the highest monthly civilian death toll in six months. Some 1,820 civilians were wounded.
A monthly report from those ministries said 79 police were killed and 148 were wounded in July, while 63 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 37 wounded.
The increasing sectarian violence has prompted fears of civil war.
The United States has boosted its troop levels in Baghdad.
About 6,000 additional Iraqi forces and 3,500 U.S. soldiers of the 172nd Striker Brigade combat team are being deployed in the Baghdad area and are expected to start systematically clearing neighbourhoods most troubled by sectarian tension.
The first phase of the operation, which began on July 9, killed or captured 411 murderers associated with death squads, the U.S. military said, but it failed to ease bloodshed.
VIOLENCE
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has vowed to confront the armed militias blamed for fanning tensions, but must tread carefully as some of these groups have close ties to parties in the government, including ones in his own ruling Alliance.
Maliki said a consensus was building between religious leaders and prominent tribes to condemn the killing, and he was echoed by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalizad.
But the daily drumbeat of violence continued, claiming at least eight lives and injuring 25 others around the country.
Five civilians died and 20 were hurt by a rocket attack in Baquba, north of Baghdad, which collapsed a three-storey building near to a mosque, police said. Witnesses feared some people were still trapped in the rubble.
Police said a bomb targeting a U.S. patrol in east Baghdad killed one civilian and injured another, while in Basra an Iraqi army colonel was shot dead on his way to work, the army said.
Two separate roadside bombs in Kirkuk killed one civilian, wounded another and hurt three Iraqi soldiers. The 4th Iraqi Army Division was handed lead responsibility for security in Kirkuk province on Tuesday, although U.S. troops from the 101st Airborne Division remain on hand for backup if needed.
The U.S. military said two servicemen were missing in the insurgent hotbed of Anbar province after a helicopter crash.
The military said the helicopter went down with six crew aboard on Tuesday. Four others survived and were in a stable condition. It said the crash did not appear to have been the result of enemy action.
"We are using all the resources available to find our missing comrades," said Marine spokesman Major Riccoh Player in a statement. The helicopter, a U.S. army Blackhawk from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, was on an area familiarisation flight.
Two U.S. servicemen who were abducted south of Baghdad in June were found dead several days after they went missing. The bodies of Private First Class Kristian Menchaca and Private First Class Thomas Tucker had been mutilated.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL922672.htm
Pelkästään Bagdadissa kuolee enemmän kuin 60 ihmistä päivässä. Koko Irakissa noin 100 ihmistä päivässä. Ja nämä ovat siis kaikki väkivaltaisuuksiin liittyviä kuolemia.
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