Tuesday Map: Baghdad, bomb by bomb
The BBC has a cheery new tool, “Mapping the Violence,” that shows Baghdad since the spring of 2003, month by month, bombing by bombing. The underlying data is a combination of civilian casualty figures from the Iraqi Body Count website and the BBC’s own reporting. Below is a map from November 2006: The good news ...
The BBC has a cheery new tool, "Mapping the Violence," that shows Baghdad since the spring of 2003, month by month, bombing by bombing. The underlying data is a combination of civilian casualty figures from the Iraqi Body Count website and the BBC's own reporting. Below is a map from November 2006:
The BBC has a cheery new tool, “Mapping the Violence,” that shows Baghdad since the spring of 2003, month by month, bombing by bombing. The underlying data is a combination of civilian casualty figures from the Iraqi Body Count website and the BBC’s own reporting. Below is a map from November 2006:
The good news is that while an average of 1,656 civilians were killed in November, December, and January, attacks are down significantly since then. Just 446 civilians were killed in February, according to the website. Does that mean the surge is working?
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