Horror of war at Iraqi morgue even as attacks fall

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Sectarian slayings may have peaked in Iraq three years ago, but at Baghdad’s central morgue the horror is still felt as families view seemingly endless pictures of corpses in their search for loved ones. Relatives of the dead, most of them women and some quietly wiping away tears, sit in a room trying to spot the missing among the photos of men and boys, many mutilated or severely decayed, cycled on a bank of screens. Some images showed only body parts — victims of suicide and car bombs — the camera focusing on the distinctive teeth of a rictus grin, or a…

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