Winks Blog

379+ Die This Week -The Predicted Civil War Looms Large

Good morning,

I have been away on vacation and am just getting back to my blog. During the last week + that I've been away, 379+ (Which is a very conservative estimate) Iraqis have died and sectarian attacks have proliferated.

Iraq began to tilt seriously toward outright civil war after the Feb. 22 bombing of the revered Shiite Askariya shrine in the mainly Sunni city of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

The government said 379 people had been killed and 458 injured as of Tuesday afternoon in nearly a week of sectarian violence tied to the Askariya bombing. Another 30 died Wednesday.

Yesterday 68 Iraqi's died in violence in the country and today at least another 30 Iraqis were killed.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 10:48 AM