Body Bags

The St. Petersburg Times previously reported that the Pentagon was stocking up on body bags. About 10,000 were ordered back then, but the military claimed that this was just to "replenish supplies". Now, the Mirror reports that nearly "100,000 body bags and 6,000 coffins have been secretly delivered to a US base in Italy."

A Catholic archbishop who is stridently against the war claims that the shipment "arrived at the Sigonella base near Catania on the island of Sicily 10 days ago."

"Americans are expecting a high number of casualties. That is why so many body bags and coffins have been sent to the base," he says.

The Herald Sun also reports that the Pentagon has ordered nearly "five times the number of body bags it requested before the last Gulf War," which fuels "speculation that planners are expecting to suffer high casualties in street fighting as the troops try to take major cities such as Basra and Baghdad."