Political fudging of casualty counts in Iraq - the Washington Post says that Iraqi politicians are pressuring the health ministry and baghdad morgue into under-counting killings. This, thinks the WaPo, is how we got casualty figures varying from 1300 down to 379 for reprisals after the Samarra bombing. The implication is that this is some kind of collusion between the Interior Ministry (run by SCIRI) and the Health Ministry (which is under Sadr's influence). Some reporting on the politics of the Baghdad morgue, which sounds like a heavily politicised place.