IRAQ: Morgue Tells the Updated Story

BAGHDAD, Jun 7 (IPS) - Baghdad's central morgue received more than a thousand bodies each month this year, a doctor has revealed. The body count here gives a more accurate picture of the story in Baghdad than any official statistics.

Before the war this morgue located at Bab al-Mu'atham near the city centre received only about 200 to 300 bodies a month, Dr Kais Hassan who has worked at the morgue said.

There are only three storage rooms, and two doctors at the centre. Today the morgue is overflowing. On some days more than 100 bodies are interred at the morgue.

The capacity became stretched particularly during the term of Ibrahim al-Jaafari who took over as prime minister after the January 2005 elections but was finally persuaded to stand down earlier this year. The ministry of interior was then under Bayan Jabr.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/65731343531149684820

on his show last night. What more proof do you need?

...or, something like that...

Just wait for the ridiculous Repub response to this.

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