War's Toll on Iraqis Put at 22,950 in '06; Statistics From Health Ministry Official Show Tripling of Civilian, Police Deaths From: The Washington Post | Date: January 8, 2007| Author: Sudarsan Raghavan - Washington Post Foreign Service | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

More than 17,000 Iraqi civilians and police officers died violently in the latter half of 2006, according to Iraqi Health Ministry statistics, a sharp increase that coincided with rising sectarian strife since the February bombing of a landmark Shiite shrine.

In the first six months of last year, 5,640 Iraqi civilians and police officers were killed, but that number more than tripled to 17,310 in the latter half of the year, according to data provided by a Health Ministry official with...

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