(Baghdad) Morgue pressed to stay quiet

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http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060301/REPOSITORY/603010359/1013/NEWS03

Morgue pressed to stay quiet
Death toll since blast vigorously debated

Officials overseeing Baghdad's morgue have come under pressure not to investigate the soaring number of apparent cases of executions and torture in the country, the former U.N. human rights chief for Iraq said yesterday.

John Pace, who left his post in Iraq earlier this month, spoke as Iraqi and U.S. officials offered widely varying numbers for the toll so far in the explosion of sectarian violence that followed last Wednesday's bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.

Pace said the pressure had come from "both sides,"but declined to give further details. The statement appeared to refer to both the Shiite-led government and the Sunni insurgency fighting it.

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Al-Jaafari said the toll was 379. Gen. Ali Shamarri of the Interior Ministry statistics department put the toll at 1,077.

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[MadMaddie]

2. Wow....* cabal democracy at work....

Stifle the truth....blackmail and bully the coroner at the Baghdad morgue.

The * cabal just doesn't get it do they....they harder they try to hide their lie....the larger the problem it becomes to keep trying to keep it hidden....

When the official numbers come out the public is more shocked than they probably would have been....
(I am not minimizing the death count, it's horrific)

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[TomInTib]

4. I was thinking about that this morning...

Now that we have decided to draw parameters to determine if and when this mess becomes a "Civil War", body count will be pretty much at the top of the list.

After Katrina, the underestimation of casualties is obviously paramount as far as public opinion goes.

Uhh, I am typing myself into a corner here. I had better wake up a little bit.

[Roland99]

5. Just like the Katrina toll. Philippine landslide toll was known in days

we still don't know how many died in Katrina.