USA Today: Iraq's Health Ministry ordered to stop counting civilian dead..

[Raster]

Iraq's Health Ministry ordered to stop counting civilian dead from war

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's Health Ministry has ordered a halt to a count of civilians killed during the war and told its statistics department not to release figures compiled so far, the official who oversaw the count told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The health minister, Dr. Khodeir Abbas, denied in an email that he had anything to do with the order, saying he didn't even know about the study.

Dr. Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department, said the order was relayed to her by the ministry's director of planning, Dr. Nazar Shabandar, who said it came on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, also wanted the counting to stop.

"We have stopped the collection of this information because our minister didn't agree with it," she said, adding: "The CPA doesn't want this to be done."

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-10-iraq-civilians_x.htm

how sad is this?

[bluestateguy]

1. The internet is a wonderful thing

We won't be stopped. We still have iraqbodycount.net.

[bobbieinok]

2. horrific.......incredible

[ogradda]

3. of course

they thrive in the dark

[xray s]

4. Rove's tentacles reach far and wide

Stop the truth. We can't take it.

[teryang]

5. I thought the CPA was over.

And that all we had officially now was a huge embassy.

Wasn't that what everyone was told on July 1?

[HawkerHurricane]

6. We've liberated Iraq...

from a madman who killed thousands. Does it matter how many thousands we killed doing it?

A Polish joke from the 1970s.

The teacher asked her class "Why do we love the Benevolant Soviet Union?"
The class answered "Because the liberated us from German Tyranny!"
Then the teacher asked "And why do we hate the cruel United States?"
and one student answered "Because they have NOT liberated us from Russian Tyranny!"