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"The Concerned Local Citizens, volunteer auxiliary police forces established to secure local communities, have sprung up over much of Iraq since the onset of the surge. Concerned Local Citizens groups are currently active in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Over 72,000 members are active in the ranks, with over 60,000 on paid contract and 12,000 volunteers. Hover your mouse over a province below for detailed information. "

The study is the latest in a long series of attempts to come up with realistic numbers of civilian deaths. The numbers are politically fraught, and researchers' work has been further complicated by problems in collecting data while working in a war zone. The estimates have varied widely. The Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain that bases its numbers on news media accounts, put the number of civilians dead at 47,668 during the same period of time as the World Health Organization study, the W.H.O. report said. President Bush in the past used a number that was similar to one put forward at the time by the Iraq Body Count. But another study, by Johns Hopkins, which has come under criticism for its methodology, cited an estimate of about 600,000 dead between the war's start, in March 2003, and July 2006. The World Health Organization said its study, based on interviews with families, indicated with a 95 percent degree of statistical certainty that between 104,000 and 223,000 civilians had died. It based its estimate of 151,000 deaths on that range. Those figures made violence the leading cause of adult male deaths in Iraq and one of the leading causes of death for the population as a whole, the health organization research team reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than half the violent deaths occurred in Baghdad. While the new study appears to have the broadest scope to date, increasing its reliability, well known limitations of such efforts in war areas make it unlikely to resolve debate about the extent of the killing in Iraq. Iraqi officials gave conflicting assessments of the newest study, with one senior Health Ministry official praising it and another saying the numbers were exaggerated. The White House said that it had not seen the study and would not comment on its estimated death toll, but that the recent increase in American forces had reduced civilian and military casualties. "We mourn

Prime Minister, Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, said that every inch of land of Iraq must return to state control will not accept to remain a prisoner of Mosul as they were the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, Basra and Sadr City, hands-Qaida and remnants of the former regime and outlaws. The al-Maliki as he received members of the House of Osama Sanjivan Ezzedine Al-Kidwa state and nostalgia, I endeavour to re-establish law and joy in the city of Mosul known history and literature, art, and pioneer in justice, equality and non discrimination. The Prime Minister added that Iraq is not owned by anyone, nor will we accept the exclusive Obugod militias And that the government before much work in Mosul We have allocated the necessary funds for the advancement of the city and reconstruction and providing services to their sons must be cooperating to return life to normal in Mosul. He called on the people of Mosul to real participation in building the new Iraq and preserve the image of their city beautiful and peaceful coexistence, non - Pay heed to the opinions misguided and tendentious information, sovereignty and renewed the call for former army officers to return to the armed forces to participate in defending their homeland and their people. For their part, members of the House of Representatives welcomed the sons of the city of Mosul city, or a spring and full readiness to cooperate with the armed forces to extend the authority of law and eliminate Terrorism. To hold that Interior Minister Jawad Paul clans of the Ninawa Governorate in the framework of efforts to mobilize support for a plan to impose law in the province, where tribal chieftains and affirmed their support with efforts to establish security and stability in the province and the elimination of terrorist factions that threaten the safety and security of the country. The Ministry spokesman Interior, Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf had announced the arrest of 534 required during the spring or in the governorate of N

A spokesman for the coalition forces in Iraq, General Kevin Bergnr that initial investigations into the bombing, which targeted the town of Freedom on Tuesday proved the involvement of groups associated with Iran, as saying. واضاف بيرغنر في المؤتمر الصحافي المشترك مع الجنرال بروكس باش قائد فريق التدريب في قوة طيران القوات المتعددة الجنسيات الذي عقد ببغداد الأربعاء: He added Bergnr joint press conference with General Brooks Bash team leader Force flight training in the multinational forces which was held in Baghdad Wednesday: "التحقيقات ما تزال جارية، وهناك أشخاص يشتبه بوقوفهم وراء الحادث، وهم أعضاء في خلية للمجاميع الخاصة المرتبطة بايران ولدينا معلومات استخباراتية تؤكد أن الهجوم نفذ من هذه المجموعات وليس من تنظيم القاعدة". "Investigations are still ongoing, and there are people suspected of being behind the incident, members of the cell aggregates associated with Iran and we have intelligence information confirm that the attack carried out by these groups and not from Al Qaeda." وعن مطالبة الحكومة العراقية من القوات الأميركية رفع يدها عن حماية معسكر أشرف الخاص بمنظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى شمالي بغداد قال بيرغنر: And the Iraqi government called for U.S. forces lift its control of Camp Ashraf protect private MKO Iran in Diyala province north of Baghdad, said Bergnr: "نحن نتفهم مخاوف الحكومة العراقية من وجود منظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى وستناقش مع إدارة الجيش الأميركي، وقد أخبرتني السفارة الأميركية �

Multinational forces announced the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda in the city of Mosul, named Abu Khalaf and assist the Syrian named Abu immortality, who was wearing a belt. وقتلت القوات أيضا امرأة حاولت تفجير الحزام بعد مقتل أبو خلود في مداهمة نفذتها قوات التحالف الثلاثاء الماضي، حسب تأكيد المستشار الإعلامي لقوات التحالف عبد اللطيف الريان لـ"راديو سوا". The troops also killed a woman tried to blow belt after the killing of Abu immortality in the raid carried out by coalition forces last Tuesday, according to confirm the information advisor to the coalition forces Abd al-Latif told "Radio Sawa." وأشار الريان إلى أن المدعو أبو خلف كان من المقريبن لأبو مصعب الزرقاوي مؤسس تنظيم القاعدة في العراق والذي تمكنت قوات التحالف من قتله في عام 2006 في محافظة ديالى. He pointed out that Al-Rayyan named Abu Khalaf was Almkren of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, founder of Al-Qaida in Iraq and that coalition forces were able to kill him in in 2006 in Diyala province. ونفى الريان اتهامات النائب أسامة النجيفي التي سبق أن وجهها في مؤتمر صحافي والتي ذكر فيها أن الجيش الأميركي ارتكب ما وصفه بـ"المجزرة" في مدينة الموصل. He denied accusations MP Osama al-Sanjivan previously addressed in a press conference, which stated that the American army committed what he described as a "massacre" in the city of Mosul. وكان النائب النجيفي اشار إلى أن القوات الاميركية قامت لدى مداهمتها إحدى الدور في حي العريبي في محافظة نينوى بقتل امرأة وعدد من الأطفال، مطالبا بفتح تحقيق في ا�

New Iraq report: 15 of 18 benchmarks satisfactory after all.