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SOUTHERN IRAQ (Reuters) - The desiccated remains of as many as 200 people have been found by British soldiers in an abandoned warehouse in southern Iraq along with catalogues of grisly photographs of slain men. Dozens of wooden coffins piled five high in places and plastic bags full of bones filled one building in the rundown military complex near Iraq's second city of Basra, said correspondents with British forces. The Arab television news channel al-Jazeera quoted an unnamed Iraqi official in Basra as saying the remains were those of Iraqi soldiers killed in the 1980-88 war with Iran and recently...

Three Iraqis who aided the CIA in the March 20 attempt by the United States to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were executed this week by Iraqi counterintelligence, former and serving U.S. officials told United Press International. A super-secret U.S. intelligence operation, working in Baghdad for weeks before the war, provided the crucial targeting data for the attack on Saddam and his sons, launched in an effort to pre-empt a full-scale war, these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The war had been scheduled to start Friday, March 21, U.S. officials told UPI. But -- after getting intelligence that...

Three Iraqis who aided the CIA in the March 20 attempt by the United States to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were executed this week by Iraqi counterintelligence, former and serving U.S. officials told United Press International. A super-secret U.S. intelligence operation, working in Baghdad for weeks before the war, provided the crucial targeting data for the attack on Saddam and his sons, launched in an effort to pre-empt a full-scale war, these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The war had been scheduled to start Friday, March 21, U.S. officials told UPI. But -- after getting intelligence that...

Bill O’Riley and Brett Beher (sp) of FNC both all but 100% confirmed that at least some of the 11 bodies that were brought back from Iraqi hospital were U.S. POWs. It appears that at least some were executed. Beher at DOD did not want to go too deep into story, as “notifications” were not yet complete. SEAL and Ranger teams found two of the eleven bodies in the morgue of the hospital where PFC Lynch was found. An employee of the hospital led them to a shallow grave were another 9 bodies were found. All were returned by helicopter...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan - Two U.S. special forces soldiers were killed and another was wounded Saturday when armed motorcyclists swept down on a reconnaissance patrol in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. At least three Afghan soldiers also were wounded, a military spokesman said. Afghan officials said Taliban fighters who still are active in the area were behind the incident. The U.S. soldiers, escorted by Afghan troops, had been at the opening of a new school and hospital, built with American aid, about 200 miles west of Kandahar. The attackers escaped. It was the latest reminder that the war in...

From: Press Service By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 29, 2003 -- The remains of American troops have been discovered in southern Iraq near where paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam Hussein have been accused by the Pentagon of executing U.S. service members after they'd surrendered. U.S. Central Command spokesman Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart told reporters today in Qatar of the situation developing in the vicinity of Nasiriyah. He said a U.S. mortuary affairs team is en route to the site. He said he couldn't tell reporters whether the remains belonged to troops who'd been...

KILL YOURSELF AND AMERICANS OR BE KILLEDDana Lewis on MSNBC is reporting that (Iraqi civillian) men with bullet holes in their heads are being found.Reportedly they are being told to conduct suicide bombings, like the checkpoint one today, or be executed. Unknown if this is related to a man threatening to blow up a Beruit bank right now strapped with explosives.

March 29, 2003 U.S. Is Preparing to Try Iraqis for Crimes Against HumanityBy NEIL A. LEWIS ASHINGTON, March 28 — Senior administration officials said today that they were collecting evidence in Iraq of war crimes including the apparent execution of Americans held prisoner and the deceptive use of white flags. The evidence will be used to prosecute Iraqis after the war in military tribunals, they said. The officials also said that they were planning for a second set of trials at the conclusion of the war that would hold Iraqi officials to account for crimes against humanity, war crimes and...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 28 (UPI) -- Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered seven Baath officials in Basra executed on charges of "treason," Lebanon's al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper also said al-Majeed dismissed the Baath party leader and replaced the military commander.

MAR. 27, 2003: AMERICAN PHILISTINES? Simon Jenkins, a columnist for the London Times, says that the war in Iraq is being conducted by a bunch of Philistines. Says the culturally concerned Mr. Jenkins, there are a huge number of historic treasures in Iraq. "The Art Newspaper has published an awesome list of Iraqi sites near bases, factories and scientific works, some of them damaged by bombing errors in 1991." Mr. Jenkins would apparently allow Saddam sanctuary for himself and his troops anywhere there is art or history, and he would add to the list of America's crimes the crime of...

Signs of U.S. POWs found at hospital NBC: Bloodied female U.S. uniforms found at hospital March 28 -- U.S. Marines now control a hospital where they say they found bloodied U.S. uniforms. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES AN NASIRIYAH, March 28 — U.S. Marines who secured a hospital that had been used by Iraqi forces later found several bloodied U.S. uniforms worn by female soldiers, NBC’s Kerry Sanders reported Friday from the hospital. The find suggested that Iraq had held several POWs at the hospital, which is in An Nasiriyah, a town where at least five...

Mentally ill man executed 03/27/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A mentally ill murderer spared from execution five months ago by a last-minute reprieve was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing a woman during an attempted rape. "None of this should have happened and now that I'm dying there is nothing left to worry about," James Colburn said in a brief final statement as he was strapped to the death chamber gurney. "I know it was a mistake. I have no one to blame but myself," he said. Colburn added that it was "no big deal" about whether he knew the...

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar -- Iraqi paramilitary forces are seizing children and threatening Iraqi men with execution if they don't fight for the regime, U.S. and British officials said Thursday. The U.S. commanders around the south-central city of Najaf reported the development to Gen. Tommy Franks, who is commanding forces in the Gulf, said U.S. Central Command spokesman Jim Wilkinson. "Once again, we see the regime's terrorist tactics, where they bring the innocent onto the battlefield as they try to do anything to stay in power," he said. He gave no further details. U.S. troops have engaged in fierce firefights...

<p>March 27, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are carefully studying reports that at least three GIs were "executed" - shot between the eyes - after surrendering with their hands in the air to Iraqi forces.</p> <p>Pentagon sources said new details were emerging about the incident Sunday in which 12 soldiers were caught in an ambush in a town south of Nasiriyah.</p>

Breaking.....Hang the bastard

The enlisted man who allegedly opened fire after rolling grenades into an officers' tent on Sunday morning, killing a Lehigh Valley native, will be tried before a regular military court and likely will face the death penalty, according to legal experts. The Army has launched a formal investigation into the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, a Army captain in the 101st Airborne Division. A grenade attack followed by a round of fire took the life of the 27-year-old officer and wounded 15 other soldiers at 1:22 a.m. Sunday at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. Pentagon spokesmen and Army officials would not...

Mentally ill condemned killer to face execution LIVINGSTON (AP) — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to grant clemency Monday to a mentally ill condemned killer facing execution later this week. James Colburn doesn't deny killing the 55-year-old woman as she resisted a rape attempt at his apartment, but his lawyers contend he should be spared because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Colburn, 43, set to die Wednesday evening, was turned down by the parole board in a 16-1 vote with one abstention. Colburn's lawyer, James Rytting, acknowledged Mon day that he didn't expect the panel to rule...

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TEXT ONLY 23 Mar 2003 19:15 UTC About VOA BROADCAST LANGUAGES BROADCASTS   Latest NewscastNews Now LiveOther WebcastsProgram ScheduleNews Now-        ProgrammingVOA TV PROGRAMS TOPICS   Arts & Culture Business Health & Medicine Science & Tech Sports POLICY & ANALYSIS   EditorialsFocus INSIDE VOA NEWS CorrespondentsPronunciation GuideContact VOANEWS Bodies of US Soldiers Indicate Possible Execution, say US officialsAlex BelidaPentagon23 Mar 2003, 20:11 UTC Listen to Alex Belida's Report (RealAudio)  Belida Report - Download 118k (RealAudio)   Defense officials say the bodies of what may be American soldiers shown in a controversial Arab television broadcast have wounds indicating they were probably executed....

Another inmate set to become Texas execution No. 300 03/19/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A week after condemned killer Delma Banks eluded the death chamber with a last-minute Supreme Court reprieve, another convicted murderer faced the distinction of becoming the 300th Texas inmate executed since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment 20 years ago. Keith Bernard Clay, 35, of Baytown, was set to die Thursday night for killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery in 1994 in his hometown just east of Houston. "I have peace of mind," he said last week from a tiny cage in...