Here is an example of a story you will NEVER hear about in any of the mainstream media in the United States. The U.S. media doesn't cover the Iraq war anymore, and most certainly will never cover the aftermath of the Iraq war.


More than 16,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 2007 – ministry

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Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 01 /01 /2008 Time 9:57:29


Baghdad, Jan 1, (VOI) – Some 16,232 Iraqi civilians were killed during 2007 as a result of sectarian violence and bombing and mortar attacks, an official media source in the Iraqi health ministry said on Tuesday.

"The health ministry has accurate statistics confirming the death of 16,232 civilians during 2007. From this number 481 people were killed during December 2007 alone," the source, who refused to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI)."In November 2007 the number of deaths were 2,000," the source said, hoping "the Iraqi security forces would manage to reduce Iraqi civilian death tolls during 2008."On the military front, a statement by the U.S. forces noted that U.S. fatalities in 2007 "reached 899 soldiers, of which 21 were killed in December," compared to "December 2006 during which 112 U.S. soldiers were killed."The figure is the highest annual count of U.S. deaths since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.AE