[j_k_l]

Would I be making an over-statement to say that Saddam's goons are some sick $%#@$?

[solzhenitsyn]

This is the status quo the peaceniks are defending.

[blam]

Hundreds of human remains found in warehouse

By Vanessa Allen, Chief Reporter, PA News, in southern Iraq
05 April 2003
Independent (UK)

Hundreds of human remains were today 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 grim 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.

Human skulls, their teeth broken and missing, looked out from other bags, bundled into the coffins.

Inside the cells in the other building were a picture of Saddam Hussein, what were believed to be prayer stones and, most ominously, what appeared to be metal hooks on racks hanging from the ceiling.

The discovery was made early today by officers from the 3rd Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery, who moved their AS90 guns to the location last night.

Captain Jack Kemp, who was the first man into the building, said he believed there were more than 200 coffins, with as many more plastic bags filled with the remains.

He went into the building as part of a security check to make sure the area was safe for his troops.

"The first thing I was greeted by was approximately 200 makeshift coffins. They contain bags, each labelled, and there's human remains inside the bags.

"I wouldn't like to speculate, but the bones inside are obviously years old. It is certainly not from the recent conflict but it could be from the one before. We have placed it out of bounds to all personnel and we will treat it as a mass grave," he said.

[oyez]

The left is still not listening.

[pfflier]

Look what happens when you give peace a chance.

[judicial meanz]

Just looking at this from the pictures, I can make a few professional comments:

1) The cards with photos attached are obviously some type of reciept or tracking card denoting the individual was in police or regime custody. The photos are apparently of the person who was in custody.
2) The remains are old, dried, and definitely in an advanced stage of decay. It takes at least 9 months to several years for a body to decay to the point most of them appear to be.
3) The "shooting gallery" was an area reserved for executing prisoners.
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.
5) read this from another post- many of them have gunshot wounds to the head, denoting execution.


This is a few things I gather from the photos and text.

[alnitak]

There's a previous thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885649/posts

[Rocko]

Bump.

[LowOiL]

They were just waiting to be shipped to Georgia to be creamated.

[Darksheare]

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.

[Kev-Head]

Just shows how much Sad-dams Regime loves their fellow countrymen.

[Trajan88]

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.

[stlnative]

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.

[Kay Soze]

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.

[Mamzelle]

How astonishing. Why would they keep these remains, and why so tidily? Why would they have bothered?

[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.

[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.

[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.