AP's Morgue
Regarding Allah's post here.
Query: what happened to the hospital and morgue workers? That paragraph strongly implies that the locals took the corpses directly to the graveyard and the article doesn’t so much as mention a hospital or a morgue. How did the AP corroborate the story with workers at those locations if, presumably, they never even saw the bodies?
FWIW: here's the morgue and hospital bit. Published on the 25th, 3 days before the statement Allah references.
Police Capt. Jamil Hussein said Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in the burnings of Sunnis by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia, or in subsequent attacks that torched four Sunni mosques and killed at least 19 other Sunnis, including women and children, in the same northwest Baghdad area.
Bodies taken to morgue
Imad al-Hasimi, a Sunni elder in Hurriyah, confirmed Hussein's account. He told Al-Arabiya television he saw people who were soaked in kerosene, then set afire.
Two workers at Kazamiyah Hospital said the bodies were taken to their morgue. They refused to be identified, saying they feared retribution.In spite of the police and witness accounts, however, President Jamal Talabani appeared to discount the reports. He emerged from meetings late Friday and said Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obaidi told him the Hurriyah neighborhood had been quiet all day.


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