New Iraq Mass Grave May Contain 500 Bodies

netscape.cnn.com ^ | Dec. 14, 2004 | Twana Osman

[crushelits]

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Labourers digging on a construction site in northern Iraq uncovered human skulls and bones on Tuesday, which interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said were part of a mass grave believed to contain some 500 bodies.

Allawi told Iraq's National Council in Baghdad that the grave was found near the city of Sulaimaniya in the autonomous Kurdish region in the northeast of the country, where Saddam Hussein's forces carried out atrocities in the late 1980s.

"Today a mass grave was discovered in the city of Sulaimaniya, with the initial number of 500 martyrs," he said.

Allawi gave no further details but residents living nearby said workers found the remains while preparing the ground for a new
hospital near a highway in Debashan, north of Sulaimaniya.

Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights has sealed off the site, where its staff are working. The driver of a mechanical digger told Kurdish television about 900 bodies might be in the grave but it was too early to know how many were buried there.

Evidence gathered from mass graves is expected to form a central part of the trials of the former president and his top deputies, accused of war crimes and other crimes against humanity during their decades in power.

Allawi said some lieutenants would go on trial next week.

Saddam launched military offensives against the Kurds in the late 1980s and his forces used poison gas against the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.

[FreeAtlanta]

And, the left doesn't understand why we can't find mass destruction...

[newgeezer]

Read more at cnn.netscape.cnn.com ...

No, thanks. Surely someone else is carrying the story.

[silverleaf]

More bones to add to the growing mass of bodies but lefties say there were no weapons of "mass" destruction...hmmmm.

[bubman]

Lies all lies, liars god damn liying liars all of them.

Iraq was an oasis of peace and harmony.....


ok ok I know you are laughing your head off but hey you have to think like them in order to understand them...Nah forget it!

[artsymom]

Oh, they'll still come up with some kind of lame excuse for it all. They would rather die than admit that Bush and everyone else that faces reality was/is right.

[backhoe]

Crosslinked:

-When the Dungeon Doors Swing Open...--
"What will they ( the appeasers, enablers, obstructionists and refusenicks of the Left ) do when the dungeon doors of Saddam's criminal regime swing open and the victims of his brutality pour out and tell their tales to a horrified world?"

[beltfed308]

To the RATS Saddam wasn't bad he was just misunderstood. Here in KW even the city council thought they knew more about WMD's in Iraq than the Prez. I am a conservative surrounded by fruitloops.

[Sprite518]

To the leftist the only time mass graves mattered was in Bosnia and Kosovo.

[piasa]

bttt