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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Tasfiya-t-al-Iraq


Truth About Iraqis

When Iraqi or Arab friends of mine ask me what is happening in Iraqi, I reply with one word - tasfiya. Annhiliation, eradication, genocide of the Iraqi people. "The mortality rate before the American invasion was about 5.5 people per 1,000 per year, the study found. That rate rose to 19.8 deaths per 1,000 people in the year ending in June." (NY TIMES) ... A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since the 2003 American invasion, the highest estimate ever for the toll of the war here ... Keep in mind, almost all the figures you read about in the media focus on Baghdad ONLY. The one above takes "...across Iraq" into account...

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