Iraq data shows 44 pct Nov leap in civilian dead

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC147305.htm

Iraq data shows 44 pct Nov leap in civilian dead

BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The number of Iraqi civilians killed in violence appears to have leapt by 44 percent in November from an already record level the previous month, data from Iraqi Interior Ministry officials showed on Friday.

The increase, to 1,850 deaths, was closely matched by a 45 percent leap in the number of civilian deaths tallied by Reuters from individual incident reports provided by Iraqi officials. The ministry figure is more than three times the equivalent in January, before this year's surge in sectarian killing.

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1. 44% leap in civilian deaths

Is this not including the ones they've classified as enemy combatants (or whatever the hell they call them now)?

I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like for the people of Iraq. Living with the knowledge that you and your loved ones could be killed at any moment on a daily basis.

I'm sure they're greatly comforted by the knowledge that bush was waving around the word "victory" yesterday. By this point in time I imagine most, if not all, Iraqi's have come to understand that his concept of victory has nothing to do with bettering their lives, or even letting them have lives. His idea of victory involves securing their oil and showing Poppy up, be damned the Iraqi's, and American soldiers, who die in the process.