fishbob
10th December 2003, 01:16 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_civilian_casualties_3
This article was up on Yahoo news for a very short time. You have to search for it now.
By NIKO PRICE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The health minister, Dr. Khodeir Abbas, denied that he or the U.S.-led occupation authority had anything to do with the order, and said he didn't even know about the survey of deaths, which number in the thousands.
Dr. Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department, said the order came from the ministry's director of planning, Dr. Nazar Shabandar, who told her it was on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, didn't like the idea of the count either.
"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."
So many opportunities for lies. If this is true, why do these guys want the number of civilian deaths to remain uncounted? They are supposed to be rebuilding infrastructure.
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/business/index.html
members (http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030707-0342.html)
Major General Carl Strock is a professional military engineer with decades of experience with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He currently is the deputy director of Operations for the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Mr. Andy Bearpark, who is a veteran overseas development and humanitarian aid official for the British government, with experience in field postings all over the globe. He serves as the CPA's director of Regional Services in Baghdad.
This article was up on Yahoo news for a very short time. You have to search for it now.
By NIKO PRICE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The health minister, Dr. Khodeir Abbas, denied that he or the U.S.-led occupation authority had anything to do with the order, and said he didn't even know about the survey of deaths, which number in the thousands.
Dr. Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department, said the order came from the ministry's director of planning, Dr. Nazar Shabandar, who told her it was on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, didn't like the idea of the count either.
"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."
So many opportunities for lies. If this is true, why do these guys want the number of civilian deaths to remain uncounted? They are supposed to be rebuilding infrastructure.
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/business/index.html
members (http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030707-0342.html)
Major General Carl Strock is a professional military engineer with decades of experience with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He currently is the deputy director of Operations for the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Mr. Andy Bearpark, who is a veteran overseas development and humanitarian aid official for the British government, with experience in field postings all over the globe. He serves as the CPA's director of Regional Services in Baghdad.