Hundreds of human remains found in makeshift morgue

http://www.ananova.com ^ | Saturday 5th April 2003

[Mamzelle]

re: 4) Keeping the remains with proper documentation makes me speculate that the Fedayeen had to be able to prove the individuals death penalty was carried out by producing evidence. )))

Do you mean, to prove to the Boss that the execution has actually taken place?

[judicial meanz]

Absolutely.

When the boss all powerful, not proving you did something can cost you your own life.

[Orlando]

I think some of these remains might be Iran POWs,or MIAs?

[Live free or die]

I might be crazy but these folks might be casualties from the Iran-Iraq War.

Saddam lost a lot of men fighting the Iranians and if it were widely known just how many, he wouldn't last long.

If I'm right, we can look forward to finding a lot more of these warehouses.

[JohnGalt]

Thank you, Woodrow Wilson.

[BossLady]

I say we send the peaceniks and Berkleyites over to sift through and document the coffins, pictures and remains of these poor people.

But, then again, they wouldn't be good enough to even sweep the floor of this makeshift morgue where these innocents lay.

[muawiyah]

After thinking about this all day I'd have to say it's not a result of Arab incompetence. In fact the Iraqis are pretty competent. Civilization itself was invented here.

What we have is a collection of Saddam's enemies. No doubt he and his Baathist friends liked to stop by and check out the list, and the coffins, and make sure those people were dead.

It makes no sense in an otherwise Moslem dominated country that the dead were not buried within a couple of days.

There is a chance that the place was being "cleaned up" - hence the use of plastic bags.

[wimpycat]

I was referring to managerial incompetence of the socialist, third -world dictatorship variety, not of any inherent incompetence of the people. As an aside, however, the fact that civilization was born in the area doesn't endow the present inhabitants with any special qualities. The modern day Egyptians can hardly take credit for the pyramids any more than the modern day Greeks can lay claim to the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks.

But what I was talking about was managerial incompetence. Clearly Saddam's Iraq had some organization, hence the cataloging and photographing of the individual bodies. But, like any socialist, oppressive dictatorship, it's likely that the bodies weren't buried because no one had given the order. Maybe the guy in charge of these bodies was himself executed later, and the bodies just laid there for years, with no one bothering to inquire what to do with them. "It's not my job"...take a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles or any other government run entity to see managerial incompetence in action.

[spodefly]

Hey, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen! Here is what you have been fighting for:

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.

[Darksheare]

Go look at post 55.

[AnAmericanMother]

These photos are pretty rough. Especially the two photos of the poor man. Looks like Brady's photos of grave detail at Gettysburg.

I have a question, though. That skull in the photo you posted is full of mud. It's been in the ground until recently. The bones are old, but the coffins look pretty new. Could they have been digging up a mass grave? And if so, why?

[Darksheare]

Raca.

[JohnGalt]

Go look at the mangled children of the Waco 'incident.'

I guess I was not as naive as you were to the evil in the world, but then you think the French are something less than human so I am clearly dealing with a troubled intellect.

[Darksheare]

So you're saying that it's okay for Saddam and his regime to do that just becasue Janet Reno and Bill Clinton operated like mobsters.
You are not a Christian.

[Darksheare]

I never said teh French were less than human.
I challenge you to prove it.
The one with the troubled intellect is you, mein freund.
You see, if you were a Christian, you would oppose wrong doing and would not toss insults around like you do.
You also wouldn't be so interested in trying to fit everyone into your cookie cutter labels.
You'd actually know what the word says.
You don't.
You have problems, and your claim to faith is proven false by your words and actions towards others.

[Darksheare]

What's wrong Johnny boy?
Can't prove what you said?
That's too bad, this was getting interesting.
I also find it funny that everytime you start showing just how delusional you are, you run away.
Everytime you start being proven wrong, or the argument doesn't go your way, you run and hide.
I challenge you to prove that I said the French were less than human.

[JohnGalt]

France is not our western brother.
France is a vacillating, surrendering, snotty nosed arrogant, fascist, WHINY, snail phlegm, TERRORIST SUPPORTING, IRAQ BACKING wannabe-world power.
We SHOULD be at war with them since they were supporting terror.
"We will make no distinction between.."
Remember?


178 posted on 03/20/2003 5:49 PM EST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)

We are all brothers by Christ or our creator thus to declare another group not 'our brothers' is akin to declare the group less than human.

[Darksheare]

"You are either with us or with the terrorists."
France sided with the terrorists.

Remember?

[Happy2BMe]

"The American and British people are. Take a look at Blair and Bush's poll numbers. I am thrilled that we have Fox News, Talk Radio and the internet. Otherwise, these stories would be as good as in one of those boxes."

The truth would be as good as in one of those body boxes - what a statement! (Or should I say, UNDERstatement.)

[Happy2BMe]

These remains were confirmed to be repatriation remains from the early 1980's from the Iran-Iraq war.

For the most part, these were war casualties from that war.

But some may have been summarily executed on site and brought there for that purpose.