Mass grave found near Baghdad (with bones of children)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | May 03 2003

[knighthawk]

IRAQIS have discovered a mass grave believed to date back to the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf war and have already dug up 35 corpses, an AFP correspondent reported.

People using spades uncovered bones and skulls, which were collected in small piles at a wasteland site on the southern edge of Babylon, about 100km south of Baghdad.

US marines at the site said the bones included those of children.

[knighthawk]

I hope the 'not in my name' losers feel really bad reading this.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Clara Lou]

Let's hearDanny Glover's comments on this-- except, I think he's too busy defending the murdering tyrant Fidel Castro. See this link for Danny's latest doings: http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2670302

[Zipporah]

OMG.. they need photos.. and I wish they had photos of the kids that were released that were imprisoned. Of course that got VERY little press.. What is sad .. is that all of the good that has happened as result of the US removing the regime is being undermined by those who have rushed in ..trying for a play for power, those that are protesting and firing on our troops.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Reuters describes them as "intellectuals". Don't make me vomit, please!

[Fresh Wind]

They will surely say that these are victims of US carpet bombing, and not of anything Saddam did. Truth doesn't matter to these people.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Let the Dixie Chicks put this in their crack pipe and smoke it.

[Paleo Conservative]

Let's hearDanny Glover's comments on this--

A couple of months ago we dropped MCI long distance, mainly beause everybody in the office now has cell phones which include long distance service. When an MCI telemarketer called to ask why we dropped MCI long distance, my boss said it was because of Danny Glover.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

More revelations.

[Clara Lou]

When an MCI telemarketer called to ask why we dropped MCI long distance, my boss said it was because of Danny Glover.
Please congratulate your boss for me. Someone who knows the right e-address should send the Reuters article to MCI and let them try to wiggle out of it or get rid of Glover.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-When the Dungeon Doors Swing Open...--

[babaloo999]

I hope the 'not in my name' losers feel really bad reading this.

Don't count on it. Just more victims of Zionist oppression to them.

[Salvation]

War crimes bump! Who will answer for this?

[FairOpinion]

More detailed article from Reuters:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03514994.htm

Iraqis, US Marines uncover grave, dozens of bones

By Elizabeth Piper

NEAR BABYLON, Iraq, May 3 (Reuters) - Iraqis uncovered on Saturday what could be a mass grave dating back to a 1991 anti-Saddam uprising, digging up dozens of bones wrapped in stained blankets and skulls with rectangles cut out of the back.

Iraqis said they were looking for their sons, brothers, fathers and one mother who they said were taken from their homes in 1991 during the uprising that broke out in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

A few said they knew of this site but had never dared to start digging with President Saddam Hussein still in power.

U.S. Marines, who had cordoned off the site ahead of the arrival of forensic scientists, said they had found documents dating back to 1990 and needles scattered over the bodies in a bid to keep dogs and cats from digging there.

"We suspect that this happened during the 1991 uprising and eyewitnesses say they saw people drive up here to dump the dead," Lieutenant David Lewis of the 1st Marine regiment, 1/4 battalion, told Reuters.

"Some of the skulls appear to have been cut open, maybe they were experimenting with the prisoners. Some were executed, you can see bullet holes in their skulls. Some were still strapped to metal structures."

He said the scientists would help with the further excavation of the site, just a few miles from Babylon, an ancient town south of Baghdad, in the cradle of civilisation.

Officials of Saddam's government brutally suppressed the 1991 uprising, in which tens of thousands of people were believed to have been killed.

Washington has often referred to the brutal tactics of Saddam's government to add justification for launching a war to oust the president on March 20. Several mass graves have been found since Saddam was toppled on April 9.

"I lost four relatives... My father and older brothers, they took them for joining the intifada," Hazim Talib-Abed said.

"When they came for my younger brother, we did not let them know where he was. Instead they took my mother."

Others in the crowd had similar stories: security men arriving day or night to drag off relatives who were never to be seen again.

"My brother and I were in the army and we were coming back from Kuwait," Hassan Zair-Farhoud said. "My brother was injured and when the security forces saw us, they thought we were rebels. I managed to get away but they took my brother."

"I think he is here in this grave," he said.

[Arpege92]

The only time you would hear from Danny Glover is if the bones of those dead children were black!

[VOA]

Let the Dixie Chicks put this in their crack pipe and smoke it.

Amen.
Let's hear Natalie Maines explain again how her anti-war/anti-Dubya stance
was "for the children".

I guess she meant she was just talking about her kid(s)...

[Clara Lou]

The only time you would hear from Danny Glover is if the bones of those dead children were black!
I think you're right. But why, then, isn't Glover all in a sweat over what's going on in Africa? Or does he think black-on-black and black-on white murder is acceptable?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Where have you heard a word from JJ and RevAl about the hundreds of thousands killed under The Abomination with no US or UN response? Had Rwanda occurred under a Bubbie with no response the Poverty Pimps would have gone nuclear with accusations of racism.

But the Abomination just plays with his sluts and killing goes on to silence. Silence is also the response of the Islamaniacs' slaughter in Somolia.

Hypocrisy is not even an appropriate term for such total ignorance/indifference to Evil as this.