Iraqi families have started reclaiming the remains of relatives summarily executed at Saddam Hussein's notorious Abu Ghreib prison near Baghdad. A BBC TV crew at the scene, 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Baghdad, was told that 15 bodies had been discovered to date in shallow graves outside the gate of the Foreigners Section of the prison. Some of these have now been reclaimed by relatives and given a proper burial. Over at the Karkh Islamic cemetery, where up to 1,000 numbered graves were dug for Abu Ghreib prisoners, relatives have also been reclaiming bodies, most of them Shia Muslims wanting to bury their loved ones at their traditional burial grounds in Najaf. The BBC crew said about 20 bodies had been exhumed in this way on Saturday and they saw 10 groups looking for graves or removing skeletal remains. One distraught family they spoke to had found the remains of the head of the household. He had apparently been taken to Abu Ghreib for being "too religious". At the cemetery, a man from a support group run by former inmates, the Committee for Liberated Prisoners, helped people find their loved ones, using a list of names and grave numbers supplied by the cemetery administrators.
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