News & Views 07/18/07

Published: July 18, 2007, 4:26 pm

Photo: A young Iraqi boy grieves for relatives killed by a car bomb as their bodies are taken away to be buried in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, July 18, 2007. The attack in Baghdad on Monday followed the release of a man who was kidnapped on Sunday night, police said. The man drove home and parked his car, which exploded and killed his daughters, 18 and 21, and injured his 11-year-old son. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) REPORTS LIFE IN IRAQ Mass Graves Dug to Deal With Death Toll The largest morgue in Diyala province is overflowing daily. Officials told IPS they have had to dig mass graves to dispose of bodies. More and more bodies of victims of the ongoing violence are being found every day in Baquba, capital city of the province, 50km northeast of Baghdad. "The morgue receives an average of four or five bodies everyday," Nima Jima'a, a morgue official, told IPS. "Many more are dropped in rivers and farms -- or it

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