Posted on 02/01/2007 4:08:41 PM PST by pissant
SAMAWA: A grave containing the bodies of 200-250 Kurdish prisoners has been found in the deserted province of Muthanna near the border with Saudi Arabia, a provincial official said on Thursday.
Amin Mohammed Amin said the grave was found west of the town of Salman after tip-offs from inhabitants of the sparsely populated region.
A five-member commission has been set up to verify the find and exhume the bodies from mass grave, located less than a kilometre from a former detention camp.
The corpses of between 200 and 250 prisoners held by the former regime of Saddam Hussein had been found, and were almost certainly Kurds in light of the traditional clothes they wore, Amin said.
The grave extended over more than 200 square metres and included the bodies of men, women and children, he added.
The commission consists of a judge, a representative of the Samawa provincial council, the provincial deputy prefect and two municipal officials, he said.
Work to unearth the bodies and rebury them according to Islamic rites has already begun, Amin said.
More than 180,000 Iraqi Kurds were killed during the Anfal military campaign in northern Iraq in 1987-88, when thousands of villages were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
Six former officials of Saddam's regime are currently on trial in Baghdad for their roles in those operations, including the late dictator's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid -- also known as "Chemical Ali" -- who has been charged with genocide.
Majid earned his nickname for allegedly ordering the use of chemical weapons during the Anfal campaign.
I like the Kurds.
I'm sure the Kurds would love to get a hold of some of Saddam's old commanders and Republican guardsmen.
As would I.
Well, fortunately, there are a few on the deck of 52 no longer with us.
As Mark Simone of WABC radio says, "When your regime has two big players named "Chemical Ali" and "Doctor Germ", it's not unreasonable to suspect WMDs.
I have three of those decks --- 2 are still sealed.
LOL!
Cool.
Many estimate more like 300,000, but less than 1% of Americans recognize the term "Anfal campaign." But 99% dorecognize "Abu Ghraib."
That's because they remember what the press tells them is important.
>> I like the Kurds
Ahmed Shah Massoud
And less than .01% know who Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham is.
It's criminal.
Makes ya wanna dig the SOB up and Hang em again don't it!
Hang his taxidermied cadaver on a kurdish lamp post for use as a pinata.
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Excellent!
The Kurds are a magnificent people onyx. I've been reading the blogs since 2003 and the more I read about them, the more I like them.
I'm so glad they are finding these graves so that those who have been left behind can find some peace.
HE WAS SECULAR!!!! SECULAR SECULAR SECULAR SECULAR!!!!!
/The Left
What matters is that God knows who he was and how fine he was, and that he's now guarding the streets of heaven along with all his brother Marines.
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