BAGHDAD — After initially playing down the scope of the violence during Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Iraq, the U.S. military has concluded in an internal assessment that at least 37 people were killed in 136 attacks.
The military has concluded that at least 30 of Sunday’s attacks, which included bomb blasts, rocket attacks and small-arms fire, killed or wounded people. A U.S. official provided the data to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because it is at odds with the public statements of senior officials.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, Iraqi electoral officials delayed the announcement of preliminary results from Sunday’s vote until at least today. The vote tally has been delayed by probes into complaints from thousands of voters who could not find their names on electoral rolls and by a political dispute over how and whether to count votes for 55 candidates who were barred from running the day before the elections.
