Previously The Daily Telegraph relied on the director of the Baghdad morgue, Faik Bakir, to provide figures for the number of violent deaths he dealt with (usually about 850 a month). That is impossible now as he has been forced to flee the country for speaking to the media.
When those giving insight into the extent of the killings are targeted, it is fair to conclude that those doing the threatening want no one to know the scale of what is being undertaken.
One clue came from the few fishermen remaining on the heavily polluted Tigris.
They say their nets are pulling up as many bodies as fish.http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/09/wirq09.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/09/ixnewstop.htmWell fucking done, bush, you MFing idiot.