For the record:
35 people killed every day, with the number of Iraqis killed by the surge around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- with 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion (not including the 1,654 killed in September), mainly due to the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day, and the five-fold increase in air bombings.
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
You may now begin eating your shit:
"Violence surges in Iraq with assassination, bombing; Finance minister ambushed, killed" by Doug Smith/Los Angeles Times November 5, 2007
Really love that word now, don't they?
BAGHDAD - After a two-day lull, violence picked up moderately across Iraq yesterday, capped by the assassination of a Finance Ministry official. Two carloads of men ambushed Qutaiba Badir al-Din Mohammed's car in the Jamia neighborhood of west Baghdad. His driver also was killed.
A teacher was gunned down in the Sadiya neighborhood of southern Baghdad. Several gunmen stormed a primary school, killing the headmistress, Bushra Abdul Hurr, in front of her students, according to police in the capital's Karkh district.
Iraqi police reported finding four unidentified homicide victims in Baghdad. Elsewhere in the capital, people in a convoy leaving the heavily fortified Green Zone shot at least one, and possibly two, pedestrians on a bridge over the Tigris River, a witness said.
The witness, a guard employed by the Los Angeles Times, said it appeared that the convoy's security detail was firing warning shots at a car that followed too closely.
The guard was parked near the bridge after dropping off Times reporters who walked into the Green Zone. He said the gunner fired two volleys in the direction of the approaching car but not apparently at it.
He saw one pedestrian grab his shoulder and fall. The apparently injured man was taken away in a private car. Other witnesses told the guard a second pedestrian also was hit.
The convoy left the scene, the guard said, and he could not determine who was operating it or who was being transported. The US State Department said it had no information about the shooting.
Pfffffttttttt!
In Tikrit, about 75 miles north of Baghdad, a car bomb attack killed three people. Kirkuk police reported finding a beheaded body about 50 miles south of the northern city.
The US military reported yesterday that a soldier was killed and another wounded in an explosion Saturday in Salahuddin Province. It gave no further details.
The military also said that US-led forces killed two insurgents and detained more than 30 in several operations across Iraq on Saturday and yesterday.
All this crap going on that drip-drabs out!
"Sunni Adviser Is Killed" by the New York Times
BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 — Gunmen killed an adviser to Iraq’s Finance Ministry and his driver as they drove through an area of Baghdad on Sunday morning, the police said, on a day when at least 25 Iraqis were killed or found dead across the country.
Qutaiba Badr al-Deen, a Sunni adviser to the ministry, was traveling through a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad when the attack occurred. Elsewhere in the capital, a car bomb killed at least one person, wounding four more, and the authorities found four bodies in various places throughout the city.
Much of the day’s violence, however, occurred north of the capital. In Diyala Province, a restive mixed area just north of the capital, at least seven people were killed by roadside bombs, by clashes between gunmen and Iraqi security forces or by mortars, which killed an 8-year-old child in Khalis. The authorities also found two bodies and a severed head among the farms and villages outside Baquba.
Farther north, in Tikrit, a suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded 16 more, the police said, while three bodies showing signs of torture were also found south of the mostly Sunni city."
Nothing about private security shooting Iraqis in the Times, though!
But a CHILD KILLED!
