[pissant]

Its very sad that Al Jazeera reports this with more prominently and with more horror than ABCCBSNBCCNNNYTWAPO etc. Pathetic

[pissant]

Its very sad that Al Jazeera reports this with more prominently and with more horror than ABCCBSNBCCNNNYTWAPO etc. Pathetic

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Ask Kerry he will still say wrong war, wrong place, wrong time. This mass grave is just another nuisance to him.

[the Deejay]

Saddam Hussein should have pulled a Hitler
and committed suicide, but SH didn't have
the balls.

[cripplecreek]

And liberals say "so?"

[BenLurkin]

"Those buried included children still clutching toys."

[dalebert]

Quick. Someone tell Bill O'Reilly. Maybe he can talk about something besides Kerry.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah. I want to read again that crap I've been seeing about Iraq being better off under Saddam. BTT.

[Nita Nupress]

Some of the mothers died still holding their children. One young boy still held a ball in his tiny arms.

What a bloody nuisance.

[foolscap]

According to Michael Moore Iraq was Nirvana before the US went there. What's a pesky mass grave or two to a liberal

[nonkultur]

The poll says it all about the UN.
Poll:
Will the growing accusations against the Sudanese government of non-compliance with UN resolutions lead to:
Sudan's compliance : 9%
Another UN resolution : 55%
Emboldening the rebels : 19%
Unsure : 17%

[TexKat]

Greg Kehoe, a U.S. lawyer appointed by the White House to work with the Iraqi Special Tribunal, views a mass gravesite being excavated in the northern Iraqi town of Hatra, October 12, 2004. Investigators have conducted their first scientific exhumation of Iraq's 'killing fields,' discovering hundreds of bodies which they hope will help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity. They say nine trenches in a dry, dusty riverbed at the Hatra site in northern Iraq contain at least 300 bodies, and possibly thousands, including unborn babies and toddlers still clutching toys. REUTERS/Thannasis Cambanis/Pool

Archaeologist Michael 'Sonny' Trimble and Greg Kehoe (R), a U.S. lawyer appointed by the White House to work with the Iraqi Special Tribunal, views a mass grave site being excavated in the northern Iraqi town of Hatra October 12, 2004. Investigators have conducted their first scientific exhumation of Iraq's 'killing fields,' discovering hundreds of bodies which they hope will help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity. They say nine trenches in a dry, dusty riverbed at the Hatra site in northern Iraq contain at least 300 bodies, and possibly thousands, including unborn babies and toddlers still clutching toys. REUTERS/Thannasis Cambanis/Pool

[Imaverygooddriver]

[TexKat]

Evidence of Saddam Sought at Mass Grave

HATRA, Iraq - Investigators have begun unearthing a mass grave near this northern Iraqi village, uncovering more than 100 bodies and seeking evidence to use in a future trial of Saddam Hussein.

The bodies, believed to be Kurds killed during Saddam's crackdown in 1987-88, are buried in nine trenches, according to Greg Kehoe, an American who works with the Iraqi Special Tribunal, which is preparing the trial of Saddam and his henchmen.

Kehoe said his team has removed 120 bodies from a trench believed to contain as many as 300 bodies.

He said that because of limited funds and resources, his team can excavate only one mass grave at a time. European teams who worked on Bosnian mass graves are not helping because of their concerns that Saddam could face the death penalty, he said.

"It is my personal opinion that this is a killing field," Kehoe told reporters during a visit to the site south of Mosul. "Someone used this field on significant occasions over time to take bodies up there, and to take people up there and execute them."

Kehoe said the bodies were apparently bulldozed into the graves.

"Unlike bodies that you've seen in many mass graves — they look like cordwood — all lined up," he said. "That didn't happen here. These bodies were just pushed in."

He said excavators found the body of a mother still clutching her baby. The infant was shot in the back of the head and the mother in the face.

Kehoe said that most mass graves in Bosnia largely contain men of fighting age. Graves near Hatra included many women and children, he said.

"Genocide is the attempt to eliminate, limit or exterminate a religious, ethnic, national or racial group," he said. "The Kurds are clearly a different nationality. So could it be considered genocide? It could be. Killing, ethnic cleansing, property relocations, all of those were used to try to limit the Kurdish population. What it is fundamentally is downright murder."

Human rights organizations estimate that more than 300,000 people were killed during Saddam's 24-year rule, which ended when U.S.-led forces toppled his regime in 2003.

Saddam is expected to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offenses next year. No trial date has been set.

[Feiny]

I won't be holding my breath to see this in the MMM.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

[montag813]

Those buried included children still clutching toys.

John Kerry is a sick and evil man. If Americans elect him, we deserve four years of hell. I don't this we are that stupid. But then again we put Clinton in twice and brought ourselves 9/11, so who knows.

[SoDak]

We've known for years that our network news and major papers were in the bag, politically, for the left-wing in this country, however it's freshly sickening that a story like this won't make any major media outlet. It's a crime against these murdered people that the information is pushed aside in what's supposedly the leading free country in the world, all in the name of political advantage.

[Peter Libra]

Calling Christiane Amanpour. She accused even CNN, for toeing the line and sort of fudging the "real" news on Iraq. Like they were cowed by the Bush administration. One wonders where this lady is these days.

Of course she did one heck of a number on the Bosnian Serbs. Unmarked mass graves seemed to interest her, even if the numbers claimed are unsubstantiated.

I now repeat what I have said before, bolstered by this information. George W. Bush is one of the greatest moral leaders to emerge in the last 100 years.

[Petronski]

...and to take people up there and execute them.

Fascist see, fascist do.

Such a nuisance, eh Lurch?