HUNDREDS of bodies have been discovered in a makeshift morgue by British soldiers in what may prove the first evidence of scores of execution and torture centres across Iraq. The skulls, bundles of bone and scraps of clothing were dumped in plastic bags and row upon row of unsealed hardboard coffins in an abandoned Iraqi military base on the outskirts of Al Zubayr. Every one of the victims had been shot in the head and many had been mutilated, it was claimed. Elsewhere in the country, British troops found records of ear amputations carried out on Iraqi civilians who had...