UN: 14,338 Civilians Died Violently in Iraq in First Six Months of 2006

“United Nations officials said they had based their figures on tallies provided by two Iraqi agencies: the Ministry of Health, which tracks violent deaths recorded at hospitals around the country; and Baghdad’s central morgue, where unidentified bodies are delivered, a vast majority of which met violent deaths.

Each agency issues death warrants for the bodies it receives, government officials say, and there is no overlap between the two populations of victims.” [Full story]