According to the invaluable Iraq Body Count website, the latest minimum estimated number of civilians killed in Iraq is 62,281.
27 people were killed and nearly sixty injured in bombings around Iraq monday.
The U.S. military began construction of a barrier around the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad, a project neither initiated nor endorsed by anyone within the Iraqi government. Even the usually spineless U.S. puppet prime minister Nuri al-Maliki found the balls to complain. A U.S. military spokesman said he wished to respect the wishes of the nation's citizens, but didn't say construction would actually stop.
According to a story in Sunday's New York Times, the Iraqi military routinely beats confessions out of prisoners before turning them over to U.S. officials. This is known among citizens of the country, one of the reasons they fear their own government and military much more now than they ever did during Saddam Hussein's rule.
The official number of U.S. military casualties in Iraq is 3323.
