BRITS FIND HUNDREDS OF BODIES

Sky News ^ | April 5, 2003

[MadIvan]

British soldiers have found hundreds of human remains in a "makeshift morgue" in southern Iraq, according to a report from the PA news agency.

More to follow...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is probably the last stop for people who are inconvenient to the Hussein regime. It wouldn't surprise me if the bodies had signs of torture. This is another atrocity in a long string of atrocities that the "peace" protesters and UN/EU support.

[cgk]

"I just had a Canadian woman (and she is not even a liberal, but I guess being from canada is bad enough)on my homeschool debate group tell me that it was not our place to be there to liberate the Iraqis because they did not ask. DUH!! I would not ask either if it meant I would lose a tongue or even worse a child! Then she had the nerve to tell me that the only reason the people might dance and cheer would be out of fear of our soldiers. Something else she implied was one of the reasons that Cananda refused to help us was because of the death of the Canadians in Afghanistan awhile back. Looks like they might still be holding a grudge because no one hanged for that one"

If it walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal... you get it. ;)

[LibKill]

It's a pity indeed. The sooner we get rid of saddamnable and his thugs the better.

Thanks, Britain, for being on the side of right and justice.

[knak]

I'm so glad we are ending this mess!

[vapatriot98]

Maybe that's where they carry out the death penalty, Kind of like our federal and state prison system where we either inject poison or we use the electric chair...

[jonascord]

I'm afraid so. After a few days in the hot sun, bodies swell. An example of this is Mathew Brady's photos of Union dead at Gettysburg. The bodies had been out in the summer sun for at least 5 days when the Brady photographer took his picture.

[jonascord]

I think that is the point. These are not "new" bodies. For whatever reason, they have been stored here, perhaps for years. Perhaps it was just a lazy undertaker. I've heard of it happening...

I would be real cautious about screaming "Dachau!" As some others has ventured, these may have been recovered Iraqi dead, from who-knows-which-war, that were waiting to be reclaimed by the next of kin.

That the same area had been used by the local secret police would not be unusual.

[Kay Soze]

It was done in the names of :

Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Pean, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Matt Damon, David Ducovney, Ed Anser,Mike Farell, Sameual Jackson Pearl Jam, Dixie Bitches, ANSWER.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is there any reason to think these aren't Iraqi soldiers killed in action?

[MadIvan]

I suspect they are Kuwaiti POWs - some 600 have never been accounted for.

Regards, Ivan

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

FoxNews Channel is now reporting that military officers have found a catalog listing of the bodies. Many have entries like "executed by shot to the head". It's looking more and more like this is the last stop for people who have become inconvenient for Saddam. I wonder how many bodies have moved through that place, and I wonder how many more makeshift morgues there are around the countryside.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Here's an update by MSNBC:

Report: ‘Makeshift morgue’ in Iraq

Hundreds of human remains reported in Az Zubayr

MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

April 5 — British soldiers Saturday discovered hundreds of human remains in a “makeshift morgue” in southern Iraq, Britain’s Press Association reported.

SKULLS AND BUNDLES of bones in strips of military uniforms, dumped in plastic bags and unsealed cardboard coffins, were found in an abandoned Iraqi military base on the outskirts of Az Zubayr, the agency reported. Az Zubayr is about 15 miles west of Basra.

It was impossible to say how long the remains had been there. But the grim discovery will now be investigated by forensic specialists as possible evidence that the Iraqi regime tortured and killed its own soldiers, the report added.

Makeshift coffins reportedly were stacked five deep in a warehouse. In an adjacent building soldiers found catalogues and photographs of the dead. Most had died from gunshot wounds to the head, but others were mutilated beyond recognition, their faces burned and swollen in the faded black and white photographs, according to the Press Association dispatch.

Outside of the building stood what one of the British soldiers described as “a purpose-built shooting gallery.”

A tiled foot-high platform stood in a courtyard, with the brickwork behind it pockmarked with bullet holes. Behind that lay a drainage ditch, according to the PA report.

One of the coffins inside the warehouse contained an identity card written in Arabic, while military webbing and boot soles were visible in the plastic bags.

A British military spokeswoman at war headquarters in Qatar told Reuters that British soldiers “discovered some bodies in a barracks between Basra and Az Zubayr.”

The spokeswoman said she could not confirm reports that there were hundreds of corpses. She told Reuters she did not know details such as the nationalities of the dead nor how long they had been there.

MSNBC.com’s Jennifer Carlile in London and Reuters contributed to this report.

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[demosthenes the elder]

Aside from providing strong evidence of the atrocities committed against the Iraqi people by Shaitan Hussein's regime, I'd say that this warehouse full of bones PROVES that UN inspections DO NOT WORK.
For the "hard of thinking" (ie: any DUh-persons lurking in the shadows) here is a simple explanation of the obvious inference: Since the UN didn't find this large, stationary storehouse, how are we to believe that they'd have found small, mobile caches and labs of chemical weapons?

[demosthenes the elder]

good reply - excellent philosophy.
I hate "Bambi" - a bunch of simplistic and slickly executed anti-hunting rot.
Besides... Bambi's momma tastes REAL GOOOOD!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

You'll enjoy this thread. Time to bring you out of the seclusion of the California message boards and into the light.

[archy]

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-archy-/-

[visualops]

My sentiments exactly. If it were their own war dead, they'd have been treated well (certainly better), as they'd have died for their country (and Allah I presume). These are pretty obviously people they didn't care about in the least.

[Aggie Mama]

Every time I read of the records they kept I think how similar to Nazi Germany. Didn't they catalog everything?

[Piranha]

At the end of WWII, the Allied soldiers took local villagers for a walk through the concentration camps so they could see the atrocities first hand. I hope that the Coalition of the Willing will do the same here.

[Tommyjo]

Iran is claiming that the bodies are their soldiers from the Iran-Iraq war 1980-88. They have asked for their immediate repatriation.