Violence in Iraq Killed 703 in February, U.N. Reports
Source: Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Violence across Iraq in February killed 703 people, a death toll higher than the same period a year before as the country faces a rising wave of militant attacks rivaling the sectarian bloodshed that followed the American-led invasion in 2003, the United Nations said Saturday.
The figures issued by the United Nations’ mission to Iraq is close to January’s death toll of 733, showing that a surge of violence that began 10 months ago with a government crackdown on a Sunni protest camp is not receding. Meanwhile, attacks on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded 14, the authorities said.
Attacks in February killed 564 civilians and 139 security force members, the United Nations said. The violence wounded 1,381, the vast majority civilians, it said. In February 2013, attacks killed 418 civilians and wounded 704.
The capital, Baghdad, was the worst affected with 239 people killed, according to the United Nations. Two predominantly Sunni provinces — central Salahuddin with 121 killed and northern Nineveh with 94 killed — followed.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world/middleeast/violence-in-iraq-killed-703-in-february-un-reports.html
The USA has broken just about every goddamed thing we have touched since we decided to 'promote democracy' across the globe. I needn't make a list, you all know it.
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