June is busting a cap all over

Yes, we are making real progress over there.

Baghdad's central morgue received 1,595 bodies last month, the most since the bombing of a Shia shrine in February prompted a wave of sectarian killings.

Doctor Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, the morgue assistant manager, said on Wednesday that the tally for June compared with the 1,375 bodies the morgue received in May and 1,155 in April.

"June is the highest month in terms of receiving cases of violence since Samarra," he said.

Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head, he said, a common feature of sectarian, execution-style killings.

Once again, I await Steve King's telling D.C. morgue stats. Although as an assist, it appears that as of the end of May 2006, D.C. had 62 homicides so far for the YEAR.

2005-2006 comparison -- PROGRESS!!

Fez tip to Moonbotica.