Posted on 10/16/2007 6:04:27 PM PDT by jveritas
As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch
By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET
NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq……
How the hell many bottoms does this barrel have anyway?
Democrats, Liberals and MSM To Suffer Most!
There, fixed it.
“Bush’s fault” bump
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