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Dumb Numbers?

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By Patrick

Seems like no one can quite figure out how many Iraqis have been killed following the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The Post turned heads with its report today that put the number at 1,300 (according to Baghdad’s central morgue). But it’s becoming hard to corroborate that number.

  • “Later, however, Iraq Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari called such high death totals “inaccurate and exaggerated,” without mentioning the Post.”

  • The New York Times has the number at “379 dead and 458 wounded, the nation’s Council of Ministers said today.
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