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| Forensic Scientists to Excavate Iraqi Graves | |
| 2003-12-07 | |
| The killers kept bankers’ hours. They showed up for work at the barley field at 9 a.m., trailed by backhoes and three buses filled with blindfolded men, women and children as young as 1. Every day, witnesses say, the routine was the same: The backhoes dug a trench. Fifty people were led to the edge of the hole and shot, one by one, in the head. The backhoes covered them with dirt, then dug another hole for the next group. At 5 p.m., the killers - officials of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party - went home to rest up for another day of slaughter. Rat bastards. In this wind-swept field in the central town of Mahaweel, witnesses say, this went on without a break for 35 days in March and April of 1991, during a crackdown on a Shiite Muslim uprising that followed the first Gulf War. "I watched this with my own eyes," said Sayed Abbas Muhsen, 35, whose family farm was appropriated by Saddam’s government for use as a killing field. "But we couldn’t tell anyone. We didn’t dare." The mass grave at Mahaweel, with more than 3,100 sets of remains, is the largest of some 270 such sites across Iraq. They hold upward of 300,000 bodies; some Iraqi political parties estimate there are more than 1 million. "It’s as easy to find mass graves in Iraq as it once was to find oil," said Adnan Jabbar al-Saadi, a lawyer with Iraq’s new Human Rights Ministry. But no one on the left protested the graves.
I can understand both sides of this. Now, an Associated Press investigation has discovered, forensic teams will begin digging in January to preserve the first physical evidence at four grave sites, their desert locations kept secret to prevent relatives from disturbing them first. Much more at the link. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 snellenr - Amen. There's glaring complicity across the board: Int'l "community", LLL, and media. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-7 10:13:52 PM |
| #4 SH -- the U.N. did nothing in both cases, and ABC & the BBC approved wholeheartedly. There's a pattern here... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-7 8:23:29 PM |
| #3 Cambodia had killing fields and we did nothing. Iraq had killing fields and we kicked ass. ABC and the BBC say we were wrong twice. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-7 1:01:23 PM |
| #2 This is very sad. Unfortunately this will probably get very little or no coverage in the major [entertainment] media and most people will remain ignorant of it. I think it *should* be a campain issue. What do you think of a campain poster showing an iraqi and the remains of his child with the caption 'Thanks Patty for allowing Saddam to provide Childcare'? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-12-7 11:20:33 AM |
| #1 Somehow, it will be necessary and not just for partisan political purposes, to let the world know that the Left worldwide signed off on these murders by obstructing a resolution to the problem of Iraq for 12 solid years, by lying to the world and to their own followers about the true nature of this murderous regime, and by actively participating in propoganda against their own country, the country that permitted through military action, the revelation of just how morally vacuous the Left and their allies are. Somehow, these mass murders must be in the same thought as personalities as Sean Penn, Patty Murray, Mike Farell, Natalie Maines, Kofi Annan and a host of others who constantly berate and lie about the motives behind the liberation of Iraq. It is necessary not just to bring those who planned and executed these murders to justice, but also to discredit, thoroughly, those who sought to prevent these murders from coming to light, whether intentionally or not. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-12-7 10:34:31 AM |