Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major U.S. offensives, according to Baghdad's main morgue. The toll was more than three times higher than the figure previously reported by the U.S. military and the news media.
Of course, the Bush Administration is denying this is even happening. Remember, just a few days ago, the comments coming out of the White House were that the recent surge in violence in Iraq was minimal, and only a few Iraqis were being killed, but certainly not hundreds. Well, they got that one right, it certainly was not hundred, but a thousand or more.
The disclosure of the death tolls followed accusations by the U.S. military and later Iraqi officials that the news media had exaggerated the violence between Shiites and Sunnis over the past few days.
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