11 killed in raid on new Iraq TV station

[madokie]

DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen stormed into a new Sunni television station in Baghdad Thursday and fatally shot 11 people including technicians, two guards and the head of the station's board of directors, police said.

It was the second attack on a television station in the capital in as many weeks.

At least 10 other people were slain in attacks around Iraq, and authorities found the mutilated bodies of more likely victims of the sectarian death squads that roam the capital.

The raid on the southeastern Baghdad offices of Iraq's Shaabiya satellite station came at around 7 a.m., police Maj. Mahir Hamad said.

[Eric J in MN]

1. George W. Bush and his enablers...

...made Iraq into Hell. Much worse than under Saddam.

[formercia]

2. Is this the tolerable level of violence

that Fearless leader was talking about?

[madokie]

4. leting his actions speak I would say we haven't reached the threshold yet

if that is believable.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Bush was saying the current level of violence in Iraq...

...is beyond what the Iraqi people should tolerate.

[formercia]

3. Please calibrate your bullshit meters here:

Use this data to set the max level:


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/29/132706.shtml

Monday, May 29, 2006 1:22 p.m. EDT

Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.



Despite media coverage purporting to show that escalating violence in Iraq has the country spiraling out of control, civilian death statistics complied by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that Iraq actually has a lower civilian violent death rate than Washington, D.C.

Appearing with Westwood One radio host Monica Crowley on Saturday, King said that the incessantly negative coverage of the Iraq war prompted him to research the actual death numbers.

"I began to ask myself the question, if you were a civilian in Iraq, how could you tolerate that level of violence," he said. "What really is the level of violence?"

Using Pentagon statistics cross-checked with independent research, King said he came up with an annualized Iraqi civilian death rate of 27.51 per 100,000.

While that number sounds high - astonishingly, the Iowa Republican discovered that it's significantly lower than a number of major American cities, including the nation's capital.

"It's 45 violent deaths per 100,000 in Washington, D.C.," King told Crowley.

Other American cities with higher violent civilian death rates than Iraq include:

# Detroit - 41.8 per 100,000

# Baltimore - 37.7 per 100,000


# Atlanta - 34.9 per 100,000

# St. Louis - 31.4 per 100,000

The American city with the highest civilian death rate was New Orleans before Katrina - with a staggering 53.1 deaths per 100,000 - almost twice the death rate in Iraq.

[Kagemusha]

6. Um I'm sorry, WHAT Pentagon statistics?

Where does the Pentagon make the slightest effort to count civilian deaths?... I thought they famously refused to do so...

[formercia]

7. Pull them out of his ass statistics. n/t

Show me how many tortured and bullet-riddled corpses are found in D.C. daily.