Pertumpahan darah itu terjadi ketika sekitar 50.000 prajurit dan polisi Irak serta 35.000 prajurit AS akan ditempatkan di Baghdad dalam upaya menumpas kekerasan-kekerasan sektarian dan gerilya yang berkobar yang kata PBB menewaskan 16.800 orang pada tahun lalu di kota tersebut.
The unabated bloodshed comes as some 50,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen along with 35,000 US troops are about to be deployed in Baghdad in a bid to quell the raging sectarian and insurgent violence which the United Nations said killed 16,800 people last year in the city.