Iraq civilian death toll down to 4,500 in '09: study

2009/12/31 16:01:11 @Reuters: World News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians who died in Iraq fell by half in 2009 to around 4,500, but improvements in the war-weary country's security have slowed and catastrophic attacks took a major toll this year, a new study found. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ToGKlR5NaCc:m-ABf9f6g6c:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ToGKlR5NaCc:m-ABf9f6g6c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ToGKlR5NaCc:m-ABf9f6g6c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ToGKlR5NaCc:m-ABf9f6g6c:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ToGKlR5NaCc:m-ABf9f6g6c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/ToGKlR5NaCc" height="1" width="1"/
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