« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2010, 07:00:10 AM »
If you are going by murder rates, I believe that Washington DC has always been more dangerous than Baghdad.
Only if you don't consider genocide, executions carried out by ruling tyrants and honor killings to be murder.
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