PUGalicious
10-15-2005, 05:53 AM
From the Associated Press (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_deaths):
Saturday's vote on Iraq's new constitution takes place nearly six months after the country's first elected government took power, and during that period at least 3,663 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence, according to an Associated Press count.
The current interim government took power on April 28 after long negotiations that followed parliamentary elections in January.
The AP gathered the statistics on Iraqi dead on a daily basis from hospital officials, Iraqi police, the Iraqi military and other government officials.
The Iraqi deaths include civilians, bodyguards, police, security forces and the military. They do not include the nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims killed in an Aug. 21 stampede on a Baghdad bridge that began when rumors spread through the crowd that a suicide bomber was among the faithful.
As of Thursday, the AP count also showed that at least 395 members of the U.S. military have died in the same period.
Six months ago, we were told that the vote for the interim government would bring more security and stability to Iraq. More than 4,000 Iraqis and Americans have died since that vote. Today they are voting on a new constitution. Already some Iraqis are already saying they expect civil war.
We sure now how to fix a place, huh?
Saturday's vote on Iraq's new constitution takes place nearly six months after the country's first elected government took power, and during that period at least 3,663 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence, according to an Associated Press count.
The current interim government took power on April 28 after long negotiations that followed parliamentary elections in January.
The AP gathered the statistics on Iraqi dead on a daily basis from hospital officials, Iraqi police, the Iraqi military and other government officials.
The Iraqi deaths include civilians, bodyguards, police, security forces and the military. They do not include the nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims killed in an Aug. 21 stampede on a Baghdad bridge that began when rumors spread through the crowd that a suicide bomber was among the faithful.
As of Thursday, the AP count also showed that at least 395 members of the U.S. military have died in the same period.
Six months ago, we were told that the vote for the interim government would bring more security and stability to Iraq. More than 4,000 Iraqis and Americans have died since that vote. Today they are voting on a new constitution. Already some Iraqis are already saying they expect civil war.
We sure now how to fix a place, huh?