150,000 Iraqis killed by insurgents

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150,000 Iraqis killed by insurgents[/h3>By QAIS AL-BASHIR, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 9, 1:26 PM ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nearly simultaneous car bombs struck two markets in predominantly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 16 people.
Iraq's health minister said about 150,000 have been killed by insurgents since the war started, giving the government's first overall casualty estimate.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that Saddam Hussein could be executed before the end of the year if an appeals panel upholds his death sentence.

Prosecutors have said Iraq's appeals court is expected to rule by the middle of January on Saddam's guilty verdict and death sentence for the killings of more than 140 Shiite Muslims after an assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail in 1982.

If the ruling is upheld, Iraqi officials have told The Associated Press, Iraq's three-man presidential council would allow Saddam's hanging. The execution must be carried out within 30 days of the appeals court's decision.

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1. If these killings were on Saddam's watch, at whose feet would they lay? But they're on W's

watch during W's occupation, so at whose feet do they lay? :silly:

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2. So we killed the other half million?

Probably about right.