Jaysh al Mahdi members from al Sadr Bureau shoot to death a 16year old girl.

Iraqi League

Members of Jaysh al Mahdi who are also part of the ministry of interior targeted a 16 year old girl named Samira and who lives in the Mansour District (area 650 no. 20). They arrived at her house and knocked on her door. The minute she opened, they riddled her with bullets killing her on the spot and leaving her dead.The crime of this young girl is that she criticized the criminal activities of the Jaysh Al Mahdi members of the Sadr Bureau in the Mansour district...

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UN accuses Iraq of covering up rise in civilian deaths

Julian Borger, The Guardian

The UN yesterday accused the Iraqi government of trying to cover up a rise in civilian casualties from sectarian violence since the troop surge ordered by George Bush earlier this year. Iraq's government had withheld civilian casualty statistics because it feared the data would be used to depict a "very grim" security situation, claimed the UN officials in Baghdad. Amid growing political sensitivity to death toll figures, it also emerged yesterday that Canadian scientists had complained that the British government last week denied a transit visa to an Iraqi colleague, Riyadh Lafta, an epidemiologist and co-author of a Lancet report that had estimated the Iraqi war dead at more than 650,000...

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