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As the Lancet releases shocking figures on the death toll in Iraq, Peter Beaumont describes the daily carnage across Baghdad.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329598653-103550,00.html


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I have worked for eight months in Iraq as a journalist, witnessing the carnage on a daily basis, visiting the morgues with bodies and body parts piled into them, meeting family after family who had lost a loved one, or more ... Finally, we get an accurate figure that shows how immense the scale of the long drawn carnage really is.

https://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/newscommentary/000476.php


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A commission formed to assess the Iraq war and recommend a new course has ruled out the prospect of victory for America, according to draft policy options shared with The New York Sun by commission officials.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15287.htm

The senior American commander in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr., said Wednesday that violence in Baghdad had reached its highest levels in recent weeks, despite the assignment of thousands more American and Iraqi troops to the capital in August.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206M.shtml

Death is more tornado than hurricane, picking its spots with capricious malice. But a third soldier gone, Mikey O, in this close-knit throwback of a town, Grover's Corners on the Hudson, seems particularly beyond grief, beyond pain, beyond knowing.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206E.shtml

by Isaiah J. Poole, TomPaine.com

Tardy promises of a crackdown should not dilute outrage over the ripoffs and ongoing incompetence in Iraq.

https://ga3.org/ct/Qd20pgF1CzuT/

The occupation of Iraq has killed at least 647 civilian contractors to date, according to official figures that provide a stark reminder of the huge role of civilians in supporting the U.S. military occupation.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/lf_nm/iraq_usa_contractors_dc_2


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