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Robert Fisk: What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of
Iraqi People

As the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq approaches 300, we go to Baghdad
to hear from London Independent reporter Robert Fisk on the virtually
unreported number of Iraqis killed in feuds, looting, revenge killings and
raids by U.S. troops.

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The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq stands close to 300. While figures
of U.S. troops killed or wounded in Iraq are widely disclosed, the number of
Iraqis killed or wounded are unknown.

In an article last Sunday, Robert Fisk of the London Independent writes:

In Iraq there are thousands of incidents of violence that never get
reported; attacks on Americans that cost civilian lives are not even
recorded by the occupation authority press officers unless they involve loss
of life among "coalition forces". Go to the mortuaries of Iraq's cities and
it's clear that a slaughter occurs each night. Occupation powers insist that
journalists obtain clearance to visit hospitals - it can take a week to get
the right papers, if at all, so goodbye to statistics - but the figures
coming from senior doctors tell their own story.

In Baghdad, up to 70 corpses - of Iraqis killed by gunfire - are brought to
the mortuaries each day. In Najaf, for example, the cemetery authorities
record the arrival of the bodies of up to 20 victims of violence a day. Some
of the dead were killed in family feuds, in looting, or revenge killings.
Others have been gunned down by US troops at checkpoints or in the
increasingly vicious "raids" carried out by American forces in the suburbs
of Baghdad and the Sunni cities to the north.

Fisk continues:

If you count the Najaf dead as typical of just two or three other major
cities, and if you add on the daily Baghdad death toll and multiply by
seven, almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every week - and that
may well be a conservative figure.

Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Speaking

>from Baghdad.

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