Baghdad morgue struggles to cope with flow of bodies (1,115 bodies in Apr)

[Barrett808]

Baghdad morgue struggles to cope with flow of bodies
By Oliver Poole in Baghdad
(Filed: 05/05/2006)

The month after the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra was the bloodiest in Baghdad's modern history, with 1,294 bodies arriving at the city's morgue.

Ninety per cent had been shot, said the facility's deputy director, Dr Qaiss Hassan, as official figures were released of the carnage that came after the destruction of the revered Shia holy site on Feb 22.

There was a wave of tit-for-tat sectarian killings as Shia mobs rampaged through the Iraqi capital, attacking mosques and targeting Sunnis, some of whom then carried out reprisal killings.

Last month, although the numbers dropped from the record set in March, the morgue still had to deal with the arrival of 1,115 bodies.

The figures indicate that in just two months as many people were killed in Baghdad alone as the total number of US troops to have died in the conflict so far.

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What has been particularly disturbing about the bodies being found across the city is not only the number but also how many show signs of having been horrifically tortured before they died. Autopsy pictures of one man, Mohannad al-Azawi, a Sunni, showed his face covered in purple welts, drill holes in his legs and face and both shoulders broken.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/05/wirq05.xml

[DS1]

1. Is Jenna Bush still looking for a job?

I'm sure they could use the help

[DUHandle]

2. This would be a grim but useful figure to follow

New bodies in the morgue per month.

[quiet.american]

3. And the MSM is upset because Bush's feelings got hurt by Colbert?

This needs to be front and center everyday, so that there is no mistake about what a monster Bush is. This is what he has wrought with his high crime of attacking a sovereign country without provocation.

[Barrett808]

4. Corporate media's job is to prop up the illusion we did Iraq a favor...

...by invading. The simple fact that we failed to install a less brutal regime must be obfuscated at every turn.

[jukes]

5. K&R n/t