From: John Cuccia 

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:32:55 -0000, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>If you believe Shrub:
>
>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/7c2358ed851c73d866266d34197c9fd9
.htm
>
>"IRAQ: Minister closes universities following mass kidnapping
>
>BAGHDAD, 14 November (IRIN) - Iraqi Higher Education Minister Abed Theyab on
>Tuesday ordered the closure of all universities in the capital, Baghdad,
>until the government could ensure a safe and secure environment for
>lecturers and students. This followed the kidnapping on the same day of up
>to 150 staff and visitors in one of the ministry's institutions in central
>Baghdad."
>
>Still getting worse by the hour.

The morgues can't keep up:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20753403-2703,00.html
BAGHDAD: Victims of Iraq's sectarian slaughter are no longer being kept for
relatives but photographed, numbered and buried in government cemeteries
because the country's morgues can store no more bodies. Men fearful of an
anonymous burial are tattooing their thighs with names and phone numbers.

In October, a bloody month for Iraqi civilians, about 1600 bodies were
turned in at the Baghdad central morgue, its director, Abdul-Razaq
al-Obaidi, said.

The city's network of morgues, built to hold 130 bodies at most, now held
more than 500, he said.

Bodies are sent for burial every three or four days just to make room for
the daily intake, sometimes making corpse identification impossible.

"We can't remove all the bodies just so that one can be identified and
then put them all back in again," Mr Obaidi said. "We simply
don't have the staff."

Mr Obaidi said the daily crush of relatives was an emotional and logistical burden.

"Every day, there are crowds of women outside weeping, yelling and
flailing in grief. They're all looking for their dead sons and I don't know
how the computer or we will bear up," he said.

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