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Pacifica radio network reporter Aaron Glantz is author of the new book " How America Lost Iraq" (Tarcher/Penguin). More information at www.aaronglantz.com.
SHARE Sunday, June 11, 2006 How Many Iraqis I Know Are Dead?
Last Thursday, the BBC broadcast gruesome footage from Ishaqi, a small community about 60 miles North of Baghdad. The Pentagon has already dismissed allegations of a massacre there, but the video tells the story clearly enough. Bodies of 11 Iraqi civilians are riddled with bullet holes, among them a 75 year old grandmother and a 6 month old baby shot in the head and stomach.