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| US discovers mass grave containing 800 Shi’ites |
| 2004-01-07 |
| U.S. forces in Iraq have discovered another mass grave in Iraq believed to contain the bodies of hundreds of Shiite Muslims slain by toppled President Saddam Hussein’s forces in 1991. The official said U.S. forces found the grave in the Baghdad area on Sunday. U.S. authorities believe the grave is filled with about 800 bodies of Shiites killed by Iraq’s military as they staged an uprising against Saddam following the defeat of his forces in the Gulf War. U.S. officials have said they believe there are up to 260 mass graves in Iraq containing the remains of at least 300,000 people murdered by Saddam’s forces. They said about 40 such mass graves have been discovered. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Old Patriot - excellant idea - hell it worked with the germans after ww2... |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-1-7 3:48:15 PM |
| #3 Reminds me of the (true) history of a guy who got arrested for driving while drunk. The judge sentenced him to serving in a hospital specialized in victims of car accidents hoping this would lead the guy to stop drinking. Instead he stopped driving |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-1-7 3:46:11 PM |
| #2 Bomb: We need to conscript the antiwar folks, send them to Iraq, and make them work unearthing these mass graves and restoring the bodies to their families. Even an idiot can get some sense knocked into them if exposed to truth hard enough, often enough. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-7 2:47:34 PM |
| #1 A thousand mass graves could be unearthed, and the antiwar folks won't feel one twinge of guilt. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-7 10:22:32 AM |