Home
• Outcome of the violence in Iraq for 2011 show declining numbers of victims
Nazim Yasin
01.01.2012
Show the most recent statistics published in the early New Year's Day Sunday fall in the number of victims of violence in Iraq in 2011.
Official figures compiled from data and ministries of interior, defense and health also refers to the low numbers of victims of violence in the month of December compared with the past months that preceded it.
The news agency AFP reported that in these figures were collected by the end of the start of 2012 and 155 Iraqis were killed 90 civilians and 36 policemen and 29 soldiers in attacks in December. , The wounded during the same month, 279 people were 99 civilians and 92 policemen and 88 soldiers. And record these numbers decline compared with the outcome in November 2011 when 187 Iraqis were killed and wounded 325 others.
The report pointed out that the outcome of last month, are among the lowest since (Operation Iraqi Freedom) carried out by coalition forces led by the United States and resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
With regard to the numbers that include the militants, reported that the outcome of last December witnessed the death of 48 of them and the arrest of 150 others.
In the full year 2011, killed 2645 Iraqis and wounding 4413 others. The year 2010 saw the fall of 3605 killed and 7713 wounded.
The total number of deaths in 2007, when the violence reached its peak in the country, 17,956 Iraqis. In reference to this number, the report stated that violence has declined over recent years compared with the levels recorded in 2006 and 2007 but never stopped. On 22 December, after a few days of the end of the Washington Declaration and the process of withdrawing its troops from the country, fell more than 60 people were killed in a series of attacks in Iraq.
In view of the outcome of the Iraqi official data, also referred to the AFP killed a total of 4474 U.S. soldiers in Iraq since March 2003, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon).
In his analysis of the outcome of the new expert said security affairs, Ali al-Haidari told Radio Free Iraq that these figures "confirm something essential in the case of the security file, which is that terrorism has changed its methods from car bombs frequently target government buildings, markets or shops and the like to a method and typical older almost more than two years, a method of assassination pistols seals and packaging adhesive, so note that the rate of at least five people were killed daily in this way. Thus, when The figures at the end of each month, note first that the number of those killed in this way greater than those caused by car bombs, and secondly that the goals choice is important objectives include the staff and officers, religious personalities and social influence and therefore this is a drain on human resources of the Iraqi society .....".
In my interview over the phone Sunday afternoon, the security expert explained the difference between the Iraqi victims of violence resulting from terrorist attacks and victims of other violent incidents. Also answered a question about the exact numbers that are published every month for victims of violence, pointing to the expectations of the continuation of armed groups to launch terrorist operations, even with the end of the U.S. military presence. In response to a question regarding the increasing attacks that targeted Finally members of the Awakening Councils, said, "Awakening Councils are now more like a victim between the government, which did not solve their problems once and for all so far and between al-Qaeda, which rose up out and took up arms her face and went into battle with them." He believed that members of the Awakening "for being the first line of contact with al Qaeda, this organization will continue to be targeted unless it is to take a particular approach by the government to solve their problem," according to his opinion.
The last such attack occurred at dawn on Saturday the last day of the last year in Diyala province, with the killing of six members of the Awakening the government-backed security at a checkpoint in the area Bani Saad at the hands of insurgents. Reuters described the operation as the second major attack on the Awakening movement, adding that they "are frequent targets of attacks by al Qaeda." And killed a Sahwa members and three of his bodyguards in a bomb blast on Friday in the Taji area.
In statements to Radio Free Iraq The President of the local council in terms of Bani Saad Abdul Rasul Said Saturday that all the elements of the Awakening who were present in one of the checkpoints of the village of River grove during the last armed attack them are residents of the village itself "has had a major role in the fight against the elements criminal, "he said.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Nazim Yasin
01.01.2012
Show the most recent statistics published in the early New Year's Day Sunday fall in the number of victims of violence in Iraq in 2011.
Official figures compiled from data and ministries of interior, defense and health also refers to the low numbers of victims of violence in the month of December compared with the past months that preceded it.
The news agency AFP reported that in these figures were collected by the end of the start of 2012 and 155 Iraqis were killed 90 civilians and 36 policemen and 29 soldiers in attacks in December. , The wounded during the same month, 279 people were 99 civilians and 92 policemen and 88 soldiers. And record these numbers decline compared with the outcome in November 2011 when 187 Iraqis were killed and wounded 325 others.
The report pointed out that the outcome of last month, are among the lowest since (Operation Iraqi Freedom) carried out by coalition forces led by the United States and resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
With regard to the numbers that include the militants, reported that the outcome of last December witnessed the death of 48 of them and the arrest of 150 others.
In the full year 2011, killed 2645 Iraqis and wounding 4413 others. The year 2010 saw the fall of 3605 killed and 7713 wounded.
The total number of deaths in 2007, when the violence reached its peak in the country, 17,956 Iraqis. In reference to this number, the report stated that violence has declined over recent years compared with the levels recorded in 2006 and 2007 but never stopped. On 22 December, after a few days of the end of the Washington Declaration and the process of withdrawing its troops from the country, fell more than 60 people were killed in a series of attacks in Iraq.
In view of the outcome of the Iraqi official data, also referred to the AFP killed a total of 4474 U.S. soldiers in Iraq since March 2003, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon).
In his analysis of the outcome of the new expert said security affairs, Ali al-Haidari told Radio Free Iraq that these figures "confirm something essential in the case of the security file, which is that terrorism has changed its methods from car bombs frequently target government buildings, markets or shops and the like to a method and typical older almost more than two years, a method of assassination pistols seals and packaging adhesive, so note that the rate of at least five people were killed daily in this way. Thus, when The figures at the end of each month, note first that the number of those killed in this way greater than those caused by car bombs, and secondly that the goals choice is important objectives include the staff and officers, religious personalities and social influence and therefore this is a drain on human resources of the Iraqi society .....".
In my interview over the phone Sunday afternoon, the security expert explained the difference between the Iraqi victims of violence resulting from terrorist attacks and victims of other violent incidents. Also answered a question about the exact numbers that are published every month for victims of violence, pointing to the expectations of the continuation of armed groups to launch terrorist operations, even with the end of the U.S. military presence. In response to a question regarding the increasing attacks that targeted Finally members of the Awakening Councils, said, "Awakening Councils are now more like a victim between the government, which did not solve their problems once and for all so far and between al-Qaeda, which rose up out and took up arms her face and went into battle with them." He believed that members of the Awakening "for being the first line of contact with al Qaeda, this organization will continue to be targeted unless it is to take a particular approach by the government to solve their problem," according to his opinion.
The last such attack occurred at dawn on Saturday the last day of the last year in Diyala province, with the killing of six members of the Awakening the government-backed security at a checkpoint in the area Bani Saad at the hands of insurgents. Reuters described the operation as the second major attack on the Awakening movement, adding that they "are frequent targets of attacks by al Qaeda." And killed a Sahwa members and three of his bodyguards in a bomb blast on Friday in the Taji area.
In statements to Radio Free Iraq The President of the local council in terms of Bani Saad Abdul Rasul Said Saturday that all the elements of the Awakening who were present in one of the checkpoints of the village of River grove during the last armed attack them are residents of the village itself "has had a major role in the fight against the elements criminal, "he said.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
