Iraq civilian death toll 'highest since end of war'

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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=354752006

THE civilian death toll in Iraq was higher in the last year than at any point since the end of the war, according to figures released today.

A study by the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project suggests that 12,617 people have been killed over the past year.

That figure does not include the hundreds who have died in the recent upsurge of violence between Shia and Sunni groups. snip

Yesterday, IBC's co-founder, John Sloboda, said recent talk of civil war was a convenient way for US and Iraqi authorities to mask what he called "the real and continuing core" of a conflict between an incompetent and brutal occupying power on the one hand and a nationalist insurgency fuelled by grief, anger, and humiliation on the other.

[Wickerman]

1. Whoa! The war ended? Who knew? n/t

[Why Syzygy]

2. my thought exactly

I don't think anyone noticed.