Suicide Bomb Attacks Have Killed More Than 12,000 Iraqis Since The Start Of The War

An Iraqi soldier inspects the scene of a bomb blast in the north Baghdad district of Sadr City on May 22, 2011.

Study: Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill More Than 12,000 Iraqis -- CNN

Suicide bombers are responsible for killing more than 12,000 Iraqi civilians and wounding more than 30,000 since the war began, according to study released by the British medical journal Lancet.

The study found that 1,003 documented suicide bombings accounted for 12,284 of 108,624 Iraqi civilian deaths, 11% of those killed between March 20, 2003, and December 31, 2010.

It also found such attacks accounted for 30,644 -- or 26% -- of the 117,165 documented cases of Iraqi civilians wounded within the same period.

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My Comment: I expected a higher number .... which tells me that such attacks .... while successful at killing scores of people and wounding even more .... is actually used more as a mass psychological weapon, instilling fear and terror and paralysis in government and the civilian population at large.