The most interesting line in a WaPost Article on a different subject was: "On Tuesday, simultaneous suicide bombings of Shiite Muslim worshipers in Baghdad and Karbala left at least 117 people dead, U.S. officials said. The Iraqi Governing Council put the number at 271, in addition to 400 injured."
The 117 number was widely reported in the US press. Why is it that when the Iraqi governing council counts bodies, they get 154 more dead people than the US did? Is the US undercounting deaths in Iraq from terrorism by a factor of 2, which could be motivated by propaganda efforts? Or is there some reason that the Iraqi governing council would inflate the number of dead by a factor of 2, which I can't even imagine the motivation for?
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