Iraqi Interior Ministry Estimates 1,000 Killed In Iraq In One Week

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Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates 1,000 killed in one week

POSTED: 1551 GMT (2351 HKT), February 4, 2007
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates that about 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks, a ministry official said Sunday.

The figure includes members of militia and terrorist groups, civilians and Iraqi security forces. The official said the data was gathered by Iraq's Interior, Health and Defense ministries.

The grim estimate came just a day after a bloody bomb attack on a crowded market in central Baghdad that killed 128 people and wounded 343 others Saturday, according to a Health Ministry official.

The Health Ministry official said he expected the death toll from that attack to rise. Already, it is the deadliest attack in Iraq since November 23, when Shiites were targeted by coordinated car bomb attacks in Sadr City. At least 200 civilians were killed in those attacks.

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[MasonJar]

1. We have destroyed a sovereign nation, which did nothing to us.

I am ashamed. Bush's insurgents are Iraq's freedom fighters; you cannot tell me that if a country invaded the US that we would not do everything possible as citizens to kill and expel them.