{"id":310,"date":"2003-12-01T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-01T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T00:19:26","slug":"68-killed-in-bloody-end-to-deadliest-month-of-war-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/68-killed-in-bloody-end-to-deadliest-month-of-war-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"68 Killed in Bloody End to Deadliest Month of War (or Not!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>Updated:<\/B>  Iraqis, including US-employed police, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/story.jsp?story=469253\"> report that no more than 8 Iraqis were killed in the &#8220;battle.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US claims that a total of 68 people were killed over the weekend, marking the end of the bloodiest month so far in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/wire\/World\/ap20031201_454.html\">The US-claimed total includes 54 Iraqis killed in a major battle in Samarra<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/20031130-0851-iraq.html\">2 GIs, 7 Spanish intelligence officers, 2 Japanese Diplomats, 2 South Korean workers, and a Colombian contractor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=2244801\">Sumarra residents claim that the casualty figures are much lower but that the majority of those killed were civilians.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/story.jsp?story=468919\">105 Allied Troops were killed in November<\/a>, marking the worst monthly total since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5478,8037624%5E1702,00.html\">a US soldier was killed in an attack west of Baghdad.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Iraqis, including US-employed police, report that no more than 8 Iraqis were killed in the &#8220;battle.&#8221; The US claims that a total of 68 people were killed over the weekend, marking the end of the bloodiest month so far in Iraq. The US-claimed total includes 54 Iraqis killed in a major battle in Samarra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}