Posted on 12/05/2005 8:27:54 AM PST by Valin
Lebanese forces say they have excavated a suspected third mass grave. The find has come a day after they unearthed 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades.
Security forces are digging for more bodies at the third site near two other mass graves close to an old onion farm in the eastern town of Anjar. The farm was used by Syrian intelligence as a notorious interrogation centre.
Security sources say the 25 bodies found so far are mostly only skeletons in scraps of underwear. The bodies had been in the shallow graves for more than 12 years, but it is not clear who they were or how they died.
The Syrian army withdrew in April, after Lebanese and international pressure following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
I'm sure the NY Times and the Wash Post's Dana Priest are working feverishly to get tot he bottom of this......
crickets
The mass grave is the result of bureaucratic mindset.
"What do I do with the body? Mohammed"
"What did you do the last time Adel? Do it again."
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Lebanon stands up to former Syrian masters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534288/posts
Lebanon unearths mass graves in old Syria stronghold
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533830/posts
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