Civilian Deaths in Iraq Jump Higher in October

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq jumped higher in October after two huge suicide bombings in Baghdad while the two U.S. soldiers killed in combat in October was the lowest monthly number this year, data showed.

Security sources said 343 civilians were killed, almost half of them in the Oct. 25 attacks on the justice ministry and Baghdad governorate building, which dealt a blow to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as he seeks re-election in January.

The civilian death toll had dropped in September to 125, the lowest level since the 2003 U.S. invasion, as fighting between once dominant Sunnis and majority Shi'ites ebbed and attacks by Sunni Islamist insurgents become less frequent, if still bloody.

October's casualties were higher than the 238 civilians killed in the same month of 2008 but remained lower than the toll in August, when suicide bombers devastated the foreign and finance ministries in Baghdad.


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[mmonk]

1. Our Iraqi colony is going to be racked with violence for probably

quite a long time. History has shown the folly of colonialism having any permanence.