1,091 killed in Baghdad in April: Iraqi president

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Remember, The W.H. has no evidence that Iraq has devolved into chaos and civil war.

At least 1,091 people were killed in Baghdad alone last month in ongoing sectarian violence, President Jalal Talabani said in a statement.

"We received a report from the morgue about the deaths in Baghdad that 1,091 people were killed between April 1 and 30," Mr Talabani was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his office.

He said "we are shocked and angry at the daily reports of unidentified bodies being discovered and of people killed on the basis of their identity".

Iraq has been engulfed in a tit-for-tat sectarian violence since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the northern town of Samarra on February 22.

Thousands of bodies have been discovered across Iraq, mostly of Sunni Arabs, killed in Shiite reprisals after the Samarra bombing.

The President's statement came as gunmen killed 12 people on Wednesday across Iraq, including 11 in an ambush near the restive city of Baquba amid a crucial parliamentary session expected to reveal a new cabinet.