Iraqis Put Shiite Bombing Toll at 271

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040303/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

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Iraq Governing Council President Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum said 271 people were killed and 393 wounded in Tuesday's near-simultaneous bombings at Baghdad's Kazimiya shrine and holy sites in Karbala.

U.S. officials, however, put the combined death toll at 117, down from 143 that they reported Tuesday. It was impossible to reconcile the discrepancy immediately.

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U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said Wednesday it was "increasingly apparent" much of the terrorism in Iraq comes from outside the country, and he pledged to increase controls of Iraq's borders to prevent infiltrators from entering the country.

"Tuesday showed us the dark vision of the evildoers," Bremer said in a brief statement. "They fight to ward off harmony and are happy to pave the road to power with the corpses of innocent victims."

[lebkuchen]

1. The U.S.....still trying to give us hearts and flowers

We will be in Iraq for decades....

[orwell]

2. BFEE Body Count

What is the BFEE death toll up to now? When they surpass those who they usurped do they "regime change" themselves?

Have you had enough of "steady" leadership yet America?

O

[Flagg]

3. all those flowers...

[mn9driver]

4. So this must mean that we are even more successful

than Cheney opined on the cable news shows yesterday. I'll bet the Shiites wish things weren't going so darned well.:mad:

[dArKeR]

5. Death toll in Iraq bombings jumps to 271 - TGM

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040303.wiraq0303_2/BNStory/International/

[Zhade]

6. What the HELL?? Why the huge discrepancy?

Is this another case of only counting those who died at the scene, and not those who later die of their wounds?