A ridiculous amount of hype was made from the slight downturn in Baghdad’s official death rate between July and August. Claims were made that this showed that “progress” was being made in Iraq, although the numbers were horrific compared to even the Hussein period. Well, the September numbers are out, and they’re horrible.
According to new figures from the Iraqi Health Ministry, more than 2,660 Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad in September– 400 more than the month before despite an intensified U.S.-Iraqi sweep aimed at reining in violence.
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