In other news from Iraq — the Independent of London is reporting the United Nations has determined that hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad by Shiite death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior. According to John Pace, the outgoing United Nations human rights chief in Iraq, up to three-quarters of the corpses stacked in the Baghdad mortuary show evidence of gunshot wounds to the head or injuries caused by drill-bits or burning cigarettes. Pace said figures show that last July the morgue alone received 1,100 bodies, about 900 of which bore evidence of torture or summary execution.