Alcede Jackson, who lay on his front porch, in full view, until Sept. 12, and still has not been released by the central morgue.

The government has denied claims by Baghdad's central morgue that more than 1,300 people have been killed so far.

"Pack everything for transport to the central morgue."

Until the bodies were returned to them from the central morgue at St. Gabriel, La., and the death certificates arrived.

Dr. Cataldie said that of the 783 bodies taken to the temporary central morgue, 32 have been released to families.

On Wednesday, the body of a radio journalist, Azad Mohammad Hussein, was identified at the central morgue in Baghdad.

Compiled by statistics from Baghdad's central morgue and from hospitals and morgues countrywide, the report posited an average death rate of 97 people per day.

In order to mask the toll, some said, the army had been disposing of bodies itself, rather than taking them to the central morgue.

Zeinhum, across the street from the central morgue, is the largest of the charity graveyards in this teeming city of 14 million.

Baghdad's central morgue said it received the bodies of 1,855 people in July, an average of nearly 60 a day, nearly all of whom appeared to have died violently.