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...hands of Iraqi forces. But six months after the new government took office, the national reconciliation process is effectively stalled. And the reason American casualty figures have spiked in recent months is that U.S. troops have had to resume a greater role in security operations, particularly in and around Baghdad...
When you've been in Iraq as long as I have - over three and a half years - the tragedies that beset this country can either become mere statistics, or they can become personal. I've only been back in Baghdad six hours, and already the week's most horrific story - the sectarian carnage that has killed nearly 100 people in the town of Balad - has taken on a personal dimension...
...Iraqi colleagues moved his family to Balad barely a week ago, because that town - an hour's drive north of here - had seemed a safe haven compared to their neighborhood in Baghdad. He figured that in Balad, his kids would be able to go to school without fear of bombs going off in the street, or kidnapping gangs lurking at every corner. They are a Shi'ite family, and would be among the majority in Balad. It didn't seem to matter that the town is ringed by Sunni districts. Just seven days ago, Balad had seemed so much safer...
...Civilians estimated to have died in Iraq as a result of the current war, according to a disputed study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Baghdad's al-Mustansiriya universities 62,000 Estimated Iraqi deaths due to postinvasion violence, according to the Brookings Institution, using data from the U.N. and the nonprofit Iraq Body Count 48,783 Upper estimate of civilian deaths, by Iraq Body Count...
...Civilians estimated to have died in Iraq as a result of the current war, according to a disputed study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Baghdad's al-Mustansiriya universities...