The New York Times is currently reporting 130 dead and 520 injured. This picture has around 110 people in it:
Imagine that every one of these people was killed in the blast, and each person’s two parents, two children and spouse were also maimed. That is about how many casualties there were in Baghdad today.
Edit: Today the New York Times reports that there were an additional thirty children killed in the playground of the Ministry of Justice. There are exactly thirty kids in this picture:
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Tags: Iraq
October 25, 2009 at 18:23 |
essentially you sound like a commentator on NPR. http://tinsmithink.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/death-toll-in-iraq-npr/
I think the fact that you mention people’s social role (as parents, etc) is enough to cause a pause than the photo you included. This photo still means nothing to me because I don’t know these people. I am side tracked by the thought of ” do they know you used them on your blog??”