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**Secret Iraqi Police Files Found** [Potentially Over 2,000,000 Individual Torture Records]
CBS News ^ | April 12, 2003 | Lara Logan

Posted on 04/13/2003 11:58 AM EDT by ewing

United States Marines have uncovered an underground vault containing the detailed files of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

Under the Headquarters of the Special Security Organization, run by Saddams most rusted son Qusay, the Marines found a massive complex of offices over an area the size of two football fields, littered with millions of documents-detailed records that stretch back more than three decades.

In just one room were files for a million souls-their pictures, personal details, and entire history recorded in minute chilling detail, reports CBS News correspondant Lars Logan.

The complex was targeted for coalition planes on the first night of bombing.
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Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/12/iraq/main549060.shtml
107 posted on 04/13/2003 9:03:32 AM PDT by theophilusscribe
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I appreciate the links & info- thanks!
109 posted on 04/13/2003 11:29:08 AM PDT by backhoe
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