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1,300 Dead in Iraq's Not-Civil War

PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:55 am
by nomo
Toll in Iraq's Deadly Surge: 1,300<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/27/AR2006022701128.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01128.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major U.S. offensives, according to Baghdad's main morgue. The toll was more than three times higher than the figure previously reported by the U.S. military and the news media.<br><br>~snip~<br><br> <p></p><i></i>