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Hundreds of human remains found in makeshift morgue
http://www.ananova.com ^ | Saturday 5th April 2003

Posted on 04/05/2003 5:49:13 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK

Hundreds of human remains found in makeshift morgue

Hundreds of human remains have been discovered in a "makeshift morgue" by British soldiers in southern Iraq.

The skulls, bundles of bone in strips of military uniform, were dumped in plastic bags and unsealed hardboard coffins in an abandoned Iraqi military base on the outskirts of Al Zubayr.

It was impossible to say how long the remains had lain there but the discovery will now be investigated by forensic specialists as possible evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqi regime.

The coffins were stacked five deep in a warehouse, and a neighbouring building contained apparent cells and catalogues of photographs of the dead, most of whom had died from gunshot wounds to the head.

Others were mutilated beyond recognition, their faces burned and swollen in the faded black and white photographs.

Outside stood what one soldier described as "a purpose-built shooting gallery".

A tiled foot-high plinth stood in a courtyard, with the brickwork behind it riddled with bullets.

Behind that lay a drainage ditch.

Inside the warehouse, one of the bags and coffins contained an identity card written in Arabic, while military webbing and boot soles were visible in others


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraqifreedom; morgue
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
They were just waiting to be shipped to Georgia to be creamated.
41 posted on 04/05/2003 6:56:13 AM PST by LowOiL ("I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me" -Gen. Patton)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Roger that.
42 posted on 04/05/2003 6:57:13 AM PST by Thebaddog (Fetch this)
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To: MamaTexan
"Not only did they force him to pay for the bullet that killed her, they also made him pay to get her body back so he could bury her."

That pretty much explains it.

43 posted on 04/05/2003 7:08:06 AM PST by Spunky
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To: JohnGalt
Please read the trhead.
This is the regime you've been supporting and defending so vocally.
These are the remains of Iraqis that were executed by their own government.
Please note they are unburied.
All 200 of them.
44 posted on 04/05/2003 7:39:55 AM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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To: Darksheare
Where have I defended the Saddam regime?


Wilsonianism is not Conservatism.
45 posted on 04/05/2003 8:32:00 AM PST by JohnGalt (Class of '98)
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To: Darksheare
The Chinese have put an estimated 115 million baby girls to death since 1950; don't you think its kinda silly to make a case that we should invade countries who treat their people badly?

Have you not figured out that there is an important political need to find evidence linking Saddam to 9/11 that will stand the scrutiny of the American press? The American people already knew he was a bad man, but they supported this war, if you were half awake and follow politics, because of the Presidents belief that Saddam was linked to al-Qaeda, a claim that MI-5 says has not be established.

Then we go to this camp in Northern Iraq, which the CIA pinpointed over a year ago, and now we have finally captured the camp. Its crucial that independent newsources, like that MSNBC link you provided, back-up or refute the government.

Whatever your opinion is of the war or Bush, the consquences of not finding a smoking gun will be a major issue in 2004. Thinking conservatives and our Friends at the Murdoch Empire, should be careful that they not becomes dupes to unnamed government sources less they lose their credibility in the eyes of the public. Perception is everything, and yet you don't seem to realize the political consquences of calling allegations 'evidence.'
46 posted on 04/05/2003 8:46:32 AM PST by JohnGalt (Class of '98)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Just shows how much Sad-dams Regime loves their fellow countrymen.
47 posted on 04/05/2003 8:51:46 AM PST by Kev-Head
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To: JohnGalt
When you said we shouldn't be there, that there is no link between Al-qeada and Iraq, and that we aren't doing this for teh right reasons.
(You are stating that we should not be fighting this at all. Like I said, tell that to those the Iraqi regime has raped and executed.)
48 posted on 04/05/2003 9:11:11 AM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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To: JohnGalt
It's kinda silly to sidestep an argument and go off on a tangent.
Besides, China has not yet directly killed any of our people in an act of war.

Unless you want to follow the 9/11 money trail.
Then, yes they did. They funded it as well.
49 posted on 04/05/2003 9:21:54 AM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
The thugs known as the ACLU need to get off their high horses, quit bitchin' about the terrorists we've got locked up at Gitmo and catch the first plane to Iraq and do a little inspecting of Satan's (ooops I mean Sadam's) prisoner treatment.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; Law Hall (may it R.I.P.) Ramp 9 Mule; f.u.p.

50 posted on 04/05/2003 9:32:20 AM PST by Trajan88
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To: solzhenitsyn
This is the status quo the peaceniks are defending.

In fact, we should hold their feet to the fire.

51 posted on 04/05/2003 9:35:04 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: j_k_l
Would I be making an over-statement....

Only if you happened to be talking to a Gimmiecrap or some member of the Socialist Media.

52 posted on 04/05/2003 9:37:10 AM PST by PISANO
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

A British soldier holds up a book showing the dead bodies of who are thought to be Iraqis, discovered along with human remains and coffins at an abandoned Iraqi base near Basra, April 5, 2003. The remains were found in what appears to be a makeshift morgue on the outskirts of the town of Al Zubayr and it is unclear as to how long they have been there.
53 posted on 04/05/2003 9:39:09 AM PST by stlnative (Were it not for the brave…there'd be no land of the free.)
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A soldier holds up a book with a list of what is though to be names, discovered along with human remains found by British forces, at an abandoned Iraqi base near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 5, 2003. The United States said its troops thrust into Baghdad for the first time on Saturday, taking the 17-day-old war to topple President Saddam Hussein right into his battered capital
54 posted on 04/05/2003 9:42:27 AM PST by stlnative (Were it not for the brave…there'd be no land of the free.)
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To: brigette
A book showing the dead bodies of what is thought to be Iraqis, discovered along with human remains found by British forces, is seen at an abandoned Iraqi base near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 5, 2003. The remains were found in what appears to be a makeshift morgue on the outskirts of the town of Al Zubayr and it is unclear as to how long they have been there. REUTERS/POOL/Dan Chung

55 posted on 04/05/2003 9:51:01 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
It is horrible (I was not going to post that one as it is so graphic (the one above) - I am glad you did it instead me)


Human remains, along with coffins and photos of dead bodies, are seen at an abandoned Iraqi base near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 5, 2003. British forces said they had found the remains of as many as 200 people in the barracks and they were sending in forensic experts to investigate.
56 posted on 04/05/2003 9:55:45 AM PST by stlnative (Were it not for the brave…there'd be no land of the free.)
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To: Publius6961
The left would tell you about how they are against the death penalty, but I think they are in deep envy of a system that could take out the politicaly undesirable.
57 posted on 04/05/2003 10:04:37 AM PST by oyez (I don't know but I been told.)
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To: Rocko
Post # 57 was for you too.
58 posted on 04/05/2003 10:07:05 AM PST by oyez (I don't know but I been told.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Mike Farell, Sean Pean, Madona, David Ducoveny, Ed Asner, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Dixie Bitches, Pearl Jam, ANSWER

did fund raisers and paid for those coffins as well as the rental of the warehouse.

It was done in their names.
59 posted on 04/05/2003 10:32:51 AM PST by Kay Soze (For every 100 Osamas created in the fight on terrorism - we shall elect one more "W")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
How astonishing. Why would they keep these remains, and why so tidily? Why would they have bothered?
60 posted on 04/05/2003 11:05:18 AM PST by Mamzelle
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