IViolence Unleashed Last Week Killed More Than 1,300 -- three times higher than the figure previously reported by the U.S. military

Iraq Death Toll Higher Than First Thought: "Violence Unleashed Last Week Killed More Than 1,300 | By Ellen Knickmeyer and Bassam Sebti | Washington Post Foreign Service | Monday, February 27, 2006; 7:12 PM

BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside 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.

Hundreds of unclaimed dead lay at the morgue at midday Monday -- sprawled, blood-caked men who had been shot, knifed, garroted or apparently suffocated by the plastic bags still over their heads. Many of the bodies had their hands still bound -- and many of them had wound up at the morgue after what their families said was their abduction by the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr."

Dozens of bodies discovered in Baghdad

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Dozens of bodies discovered in Baghdad: "Staff and agencies | Thursday February 23, 2006

Iraqi police recovered the bodies of dozens of people in Baghdad today as violence spread across the country following the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra.

The bodies were found riddled with bullets as fears grew that the country was sliding into civil war after the attack yesterday which destroyed the golden dome on the al-Askari shrine, one of Shia Islam's most revered sites.

Police and army officials said the bodies of 31 men were found at eight sites in the capital, predominantly in Shia areas. Most had their hands bound, and they had had all been shot.

At least 40 more bodies were found in the village of Nahrawan, south of the capital.

Elsewhere in the country, a bomb targeting an Iraqi army foot patrol killed 12 people and wounded 21 in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, according to an Iraqi army source.

Four civilians and the colonel commanding the patrol through a busy market in the centre of the city were among the dead.

Earlier, gunmen opened fire on a Sunni mosque in Baquba, killing one person and wounding two. ...

In January more than 800 people — soldiers, security officers and civilians — were killed

31 Days in Iraq - New York Times: "by ADRIANA LINS de ALBUQUERQUE and ALICIA CHENG | Published: February 6, 2006

In January more than 800 people — soldiers, security officers and civilians — were killed as a result of the insurgency in Iraq. While the daily toll is noted in the newspapers and on TV, it is hard for many Americans to see these isolated reports in a broader context. The map, based on data from the American, British and Iraqi governments and news reports, shows the dates, locations and circumstances of deaths for the first month of the year. ..

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