unimaginable

Violence Claimed 7,000 Iraqis in 2005
BAGHDAD (Jan. 4) - More than 7,000 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in violence in 2005, the first year that Iraqi officials have kept such records, an Interior Ministry official said Wednesday.

The year 2005 saw 2,880 terrorist attacks target Iraqi security forces and civilians, Maj. Abdul Aziz al-Mousawi said. Some 1,225 policemen and 475 soldiers were killed, along with 4,021 civilians and 1,709 insurgents, he said. Overall, 7,430 Iraqis were killed, according to the figures.

It was impossible to confirm the accuracy of the numbers because many slayings in Iraq go unreported and there are no other official figures with which to compare them. The U.S. military does not track civilian deaths.

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Most likely, this is an extremely low estimate, for reasons given above.
Truly, sickeningly sad....