I am sickened to be living in a country that has no respect for the life of Iraqi citizens. I was also struck by the number of Iraqi civilians that died in the month of June. The civilian casulty total paragraph is in bold print.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030725/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_faheema_s_tragedy_2Family Tragedy Shows Life Tough in Iraq Fri Jul 25, 3:23 AM ET
By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer
BAYJI, Iraq - In just a few seconds, an attack by U.S. forces killed Faheema Jassim Khalaf's mother and two sisters, tore apart her right leg below the knee and shattered her ankle. Khalaf is too weak to talk for long, but what she was able to whisper as she lay on the floor of her home's living room on a recent day painted a disturbing picture of how easily lives are lost in an Iraq (news - web sites) embroiled in conflict more than three months after U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
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"The whole thing lasted seconds," said the father, who returned to Iraq in 1993 after living in Kuwait for 20 years. "There were no screams from the girls or my wife, just blood everywhere."
Khaled Suleiman, the Khalafs' neighbor for nearly 10 years, said U.S. soldiers surrounded the house and would not allow him to take the wounded to a hospital for at least 20 minutes. He recalled seeing four or five young Iraqis arrested by the soldiers and lined up against a wall.
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The Associated Press found in June that at least 3,240 civilians died in a month of fighting during the Iraq war, but it's impossible to say how many have died since.