Close Bodies flood Baghdad morgue by Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:33 AM GMT
Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds Baghdad's central morgue received 1,595 bodies last month, the most since the bombing of a Shia shrine in February prompted a wave of sectarian killings. Doctor Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, the morgue assistant manager, said on Wednesday that the tally for June compared with the 1,375 bodies the morgue received in May and 1,155 in April. "June is the highest month in terms of receiving cases of violence since Samarra," he said. Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head, he said, a common feature of sectarian, execution-style killings. Iraq's health, interior and defence ministries consistently provide lower figures than those released by the morgue. The figures show that the level of violence in Iraq has increased even after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al- Qaeda in Iraq, in a US air strike on June 7. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to Iraq, said on Tuesday that the death of Zarqawi had not improved security. Zarqawi was blamed for a campaign of car bombs and suicide attacks that US and Iraqi officials said was aimed at starting civil war among Shia and Sunnis in Iraq. Sectarian tension has been simmering since the attack on the Golden Mosque of Samarra, which US and Iraqi officials blamed on al-Qaeda. Reuters By You can find this article at: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/57F48164-B502-43A8-B892- CBFDCD494CC4.htm Close ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
