Baghdad death rate up in July despite (because?) of US security clampdown

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM040531.htm

BAGHDAD, July 20 (Reuters) - Baghdad morgue has taken in about 1,000 bodies so far this month, a senior official there said on Thursday, indicating another slight increase in the number of violent deaths among civilians in the Iraqi capital. snip

That equates to an average of about 55 bodies a day, compared to 53 in June, 44 in May and 39 in April.

The United Nations this week used the Baghdad morgue data in conjunction with national Health Ministry statistics from hospitals to produce a figure of some 100 civilians being killed every day in May and June, or a total of nearly 6,000 people.

The U.S. military said on Thursday that a heavy security clampdown on the capital over the past month had produced only a "slight downtick" in violence. July has seen four of the bloodiest attacks of the year, causing 220 deaths among them.

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1. I have not even heard the UN report on the networks. It may have been

talked about--but very little. Most network news is all about lebanon last week or so.

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2. and these are just the bodies that the morgue has handled . . .

no telling how many more never reach the morgue . . .