More Dumb Numbers?
As we alluded to yesterday, there is some confusion over the Post’s death toll numbers following the bombing of a Shi’ite shrine. Today Slate’s Eric Umansky provides the best context:
There’s still no corroboration of yesterday’s big Post report, cited to Baghdad’s morgue, that 1,300 Iraqis have been killed since last week’s shrine bombing. The NYT again points out that the two directors of the morgue recently put the figure at 246. The LAT says authorities have logged 519 deaths from “unnatural causes,” though that includes car accidents, suicides, and such.
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