Iraq Government: Civilian Deaths Rose In '07

Iraq's government released statistics on the number of civilians and security force members it said were killed in 2007.
According to figures released Monday by the Iraqi government, 16,232 civilians, 432 soldiers and about 1,300 Iraqi policeman died in 2007. The previous year, according to the figures compiled by the health, defense and interior ministries, 12,371 civilians, 603 soldiers and 1,224 policeman were killed.
The government's figures were roughly in line with a count kept by The Associated Press, which found that...
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