Statistical Unemployment

Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled … The health minister, Dr. Khodeir Abbas, denied that he or the U.S.-led occupation authority had anything to do with the order … Dr. Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry’s statistics department, said the order came from the ministry’s director of planning, Dr. Nazar Shabandar, who told her it was on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, didn’t like the idea of the count either.