Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 44308
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2025/07/10 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
7/10    

2006/9/7-12 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44308 Activity:nil
9/7     Iraq deaths multiply in new count
        http://tinyurl.com/qmmsp (news.yahoo.com)
        "BAGHDAD, Iraq - Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there
        was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but
        the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had
        fallen by 52 percent."
        \_ So...how hard is it to get a concealed carry permit in Baghdad?
           \_ Who there would want to conceal?
              \_ According to the motd gun gods, everyone should be concealing
                 there, because then no one will know who has a gun, and
                 everyone will be polite and peaceful.  Apparently this is a
                 better deterent to violence than slinging an AK across your
                 shoulder in plain sight.
                 \_ Straw man.  Try again.
                    \_ Try what?  I think I've made my point.  Deterrence
                       works when your potential attacker actually knows you're
                       packing.  I support the right to both open carry and
                       concealed carry, but I think it's open carry that
                       is more likely to deter crimes, and that most motd
                       gun nuts are so blinded by their rage about california's
                       restrictive gun laws that they've lost sight of this.
                       In the words of Dr. Strangelove "vay didn't you tell
                       ze verld??!!"
        \_ "He fell on some bullets"
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Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the US military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent. Baghdad recorded more than 1,500 violent deaths in August, according to final figures released this week by the Health Ministry. The final count was roughly the same as the figure the ministry released for July, before the US-led security crackdown began in the Baghdad area. The final figure also was nearly three times the preliminary count released by the same ministry last week. If accurate, the final figures cast doubt on US and Iraqi claims of a significant reduction in the level of violence here since the crackdown was launched Aug. Barry Johnson refused to provide an explanation, merely referring The Associated Press to a statement on a US military Web site that said the murder rate in Baghdad dropped 52 percent from the daily rate for July. "The violence Baghdad endured in July receded during the month of August," the statement added. "Attacks in Baghdad were well below the monthly average for July." Deputy Health Minister Hakem al-Zamly this week put the August violent death count for Baghdad at 1,536, based on figures from the city morgue. However, preliminary Health Ministry figures released last week showed violent deaths in August in Baghdad at just 550, according to Dr. Iraqi officials could provide no explanation for the difference between the preliminary and final August figures, but it could have resulted in part from a late August surge in deaths. More than 250 people were killed in Baghdad in the final week of the month. Efforts by the AP to contact Amir on Thursday for an explanation were unsuccessful. Accurate figures on the number of people who have died since the Iraq conflict began in March 2003 have long been difficult to obtain. The Health Ministry relies on reports from government hospitals and morgues. Poor phone lines and shortages of trained staff and computers can delay entering death reports into databases, which means the preliminary count may have lagged sharply. But accurate figures are important because Iraqi and US officials -- anxious to demonstrate progress as support for the war declines in the US -- have used them to claim success in curbing violence in Baghdad. William B Caldwell said the murder rate in Baghdad fell by 46 percent from July to August. Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie insisted last week that execution-style killings and sectarian violence had dropped by 45 percent in the last six weeks. Iraqi fire fighter extinguish a fire at gas station, in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Sept. Six bomb attacks, mostly targeted police patrols in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 Thursday, hours before a highly anticipated ceremony in which the US-led coalition was to hand over control of the country's armed forces command to Iraqi authorities. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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