HOAX?

[websterdog]

Last night as I checked FR before retiring, I saw 2 stories about 123 people buried alive in Iraq.(?)

[websterdog]

Last night as I check FR before retiring, I saw 2 stories about 123 people buried alive in Iraq. I've seen nothing about it on any TV news broadcast or Drudge is this a hoax and creative writing or the truth?

[mabelkitty]

It's true. Check lucianne.com

[COURAGE]

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."

[SquirrelKing]

Congratulations on your retirement!

[CaptRon]

Lucianne.com checks their news here.

[areafiftyone]

It was on the cable news yesterday for a bit yesterday. I think they postponed the digging and will be picking it up again today. I think there was more than one site! Apparently the cable news networks don't seem to want to follow this story that much!

[ArmstedFragg]

Check command-post.com.

There's a story from early this morning from the "Straits Times" (whatever the heck that is). It's loaded with fancy, but, given the quality of reporting on this war, that doesn't tell you much.

[GraniteStateConservative]

This is all circular logic. It's true because someone else posted a reference to the exact same article?

[Lady Jag]

They are digging in Basra and Baghdad as I understand it. Last night on FR I ran into two threads. One (Baghdad?) said they found over 100 emaciated prisoners underground and the men had beards to their waists and had recently survived by eating their scabs. The other thread said Basra digging had quit for the day.

It was on FR but I can't located it for you.

[Steven W.]

Link Here ... there are, indeed, at least two or three of these sites. This is the first one where they've actually recovered people. The one in Basrah was the first to be reported but the British were skeptical and, I hope, now, will continue to investigate. I'm not surprised there is no coverage, after all, it's not in the liberal media's agenda to expose the realities of the regime which they helped to sustain & propogate. They'd prefer to cover the stories of looting and the museum, without any context for that, either, like the article posted on FR last night from 1996 highlighting the pillaging of the museum under Saddam Hussein.

[TN4Liberty]

FR thread at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894180/posts

Source is "Straits Times" apparently an asian news source. I don't know the reliability of it. I did immediately wonder if it was a publication to counter "HIgh Times" magazine.

The Brits are working on another group. that are apparently trapped in a tunnel when Saddam's people filled the entrance with cement. Anyone think those people aren't pure evil?

[Protagoras]

had recently survived by eating their scabs.

More attempts by the Labor Unions to stifle competition?

[backhoe]

Google news:

'Buried alive in a concrete grave'
London Times, UK - 5 hours ago
By Nick Parker. BRITISH troops were racing against time last night to free prisoners
believed to have been buried alive by Saddam Hussein’s fleeing henchmen. ...
       TROOPS IN RACE AGAINST TIME TO SAVE 'BURIED PRISONERS' - Bristol Evening Post
       British dig for 'sealed dungeon' - News Interactive

Prisoners 'buried alive'
The Age, Australia - Apr 12, 2003
... about 2000 today, to a notorious jail where families last saw their relatives alive ... we
came to the conclusion that they weren't there and maybe they are buried ...

[vollmond]

I think some of these reports are based on rumor and the hopes of the Iraqi people that their missing family members and children are still alive. It's easier to believe that there are vast underground dungeons of Iraqi prisoners waiting to be freed, than to face the truth that Saddam and his regime killed them by the thousands.

[GraniteStateConservative]

It looks like this whole story was wishful thinking from the Iraqis there. "The United States soldiers at Al-Istikhbarat Al-'Askariya would not say what they were doing there. Their tanks blocked the entrance." Derwin Periera, the reporter, admits that he had no confirmation of any of this from any of the soldiers on hand and he wasn't there to see any of this.

[Lady Jag]

You gave me a brain freeze and much to ponder. LOL!

[jlogajan]

I think some of these reports are based on rumor and the hopes of the Iraqi people that their missing family members and children are still alive. It's easier to believe that there are vast underground dungeons of Iraqi prisoners waiting to be freed, than to face the truth that Saddam and his regime killed them by the thousands.

Yup.

[Steven W.]

That was my belief, too, based on what was transpiring at the prison in Basrah last week, particularly since that was one of the sites where the Iraqis filled the dungeons with water before they left. However, these reports referred to here are about OTHER different locations! Don't get confused.

[Becki]

I think some of these reports are based on rumor and the hopes of the Iraqi people that their missing family members and children are still alive. It's easier to believe that there are vast underground dungeons of Iraqi prisoners waiting to be freed, than to face the truth that Saddam and his regime killed them by the thousands.

Except the story from Basrah yesterday included the fact that the Brits had heard noices and received responses to knocks. Also, a medic was able to hear noices with his stethescope.

After the story of the 123 being released in Baghdad yesterday, I would not put too much past these beasts.

Becki

[Diogenesis]

Yes. We should not give up.

How many could have been saved if CNN's motto was not: BLOOD FOR RATINGS.