These months old mass graves being "discovered" all over Iraq are really starting to creep me out

[NNN0LHI]

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PRESS TV Mass grave discovered in Iraq
CNN - Apr 14, 2008
Last month, another mass grave near Muqdadiya yielded 14 bodies. Human rights group say that hundreds of mass graves dot Iraq, buried mostly with bodies of ...
Around 30 bodies found in Iraq mass grave AFP
US says mass grave found north of Baghdad Reuters UK
Mass grave in Iraq reveals many bodies Malaysia Sun
Xinhua - Voice of America
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The Southern Ledger Iraqi sweep frees British journalist
Arab Times, Kuwait - Apr 14, 2008
US soldiers have discovered around 30 bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad of people buried nearly eight months ago, the American military said Monday. ...
Sadr demands forces be reinstated BBC News
British Journalist Rescued in Basra The Associated Press
Shiite militia confessions lead to discovery of mass graves Today's Zaman
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Iraq: Mass Grave Found South of Baghdad
The Associated Press - Apr 12, 2008
The US military said Thursday's mass grave was the first unearthed in the area south of Baghdad. It had no immediate comment on Saturday's discovery.
More than 30 bodies found in Iraq mass grave
NDTV.com, India - Apr 10, 2008
Iraqi troops have discovered more than 30 bodies in a mass grave at a house south of Baghdad, the US military announced. ''Initial reports indicate the ...

National Post British Journalist Rescued in Basra
The Associated Press - Apr 14, 2008
US soldiers unearthed a mass grave Sunday containing as many as 30 badly decomposed bodies near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
Video: UK journalist released in Iraq bbcworldnews
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US, Iraq forces find 14 bodies in mass grave
Reuters - Mar 30, 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US and Iraqi security forces found 14 bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad and some showed signs of torture, the US military said on ...
Bodies found in Iraq mass grave
The Press Association - Mar 27, 2008
American troops and Iraqis have unearthed 37 bodies in a mass grave north east of Baghdad, the US military has said. The site of the grisly discovery was ...

AFP 37 bodies found in Iraq mass grave
AFP - Mar 27, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi and US forces found 37 bodies in a mass grave uncovered in the restive province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, on Thursday, ...
Mass grave found in Iraq
Guardian, UK - Mar 27, 2008
American and Iraqi troops today unearthed 37 bodies in a mass grave north-east of Baghdad, the US military said. The corpses were discovered near Muqdadiyah ...
About 37 bodies found in Iraq mass grave - US says
Reuters India, India - Mar 28, 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces found 37 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad and some showed signs of torture, ...


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[gateley]

1. I haven't been following it -

who are the bodies believed to be, have they said? Thanks.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Iraqis by the dozens in graves for 8 months or so according to the sources

[gateley]

8. God. So not previously undiscovered Saddam graves. Wow.

Are they positing who might be behind this?

[NNN0LHI]

12. Don't know who is behind it but I know who according to international law is responsible

The occupying country.

We can't take credit for the schools we painted and not for the mass graves that were created under our noses.

Don

[gateley]

15. Thanks again.

I'll be listening more closely from now on.

[cliffordu]

3. What's blackwater been up to recently???

[gateley]

9. Holy Mother of God - I bet you have something there. Gut feeling nt

[lonestarnot]

11. And what sup with the 30 number?

[Warpy]

4. Think about the climate, the infrastructure and Islamic law

covering funerals. There are no refrigerated morgues and Islamic law states bodies have to be buried before sundown the following day, at the latest.

Bodies are photographed and samples taken for later DNA testing, should facilities ever become available again. Everybody who was killed in the bombing that day will be buried together the following day, usually before families discover they're missing, suspect they've been killed, and go looking for wherever bodies were taken.

Mass graves are simply what happens in wartime, in plagues, and in famines.

These are not the first and they certainly won't be the last.

[NNN0LHI]

7. They are finding a lot of the bodies with electric drill holes in their bodies

Who has been torturing lately?

Don

[Warpy]

19. All sides, I'm afraid

but how do they know they're made by electric drill? A puncture wound looks pretty much the same whether it's made by a small calibre bullet or a drill bit.

Now if they said the TEETH were drilled, I'd think torture.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. The problem with these discoveries is...

...some of them may have occurred during Saddam's time. And others may have been as a result of air strikes. Without autopsies, real investigations and real reporting, we will never know the truth.

Just the sensationalism of "mass graves" found in the Middle East.

How long will it be before someone on FOX blames it on Iran?

[NNN0LHI]

10. No, the problem is we have been in this country for going on 6 years and have looked for mass graves

These are new mass graves that we are finding according to the reports I linked.

We have already found Saddams mass graves. Here is a link to that:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/jul/18/iraq.iraq1

PM admits graves claim 'untrue'

Sunday July 18 2004

Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.

The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.

In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'

On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings {have} already {been} found in mass graves.'

The admission that the figure has been hugely inflated follows a week in which Blair accepted responsibility for charges in the Butler report over the way in which Downing Street pushed intelligence reports 'to the outer limits' in the case for the threat posed by Iraq.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. You're assuming...

...we found all of them. And that they are not being re-reported on.

You are also assuming that whatever reporting coming out the Middle East can be believed.

Without question.

The graves that are being found might contain the victims of air strikes. However, without autopsies, real investigations and real reporting, we will not know what is actually happening.

Don't forget, we still don't know everything that happened in Abu Ghraib.

[NNN0LHI]

16. I am not assuming nothing

If you clicked on the links you would see they are finding these graves in places that had been looked at before and there was nothing there. We looked at everything before when Blair was trying to account for all the bodies he lied about. They weren't there before.

The US military even states some of the graves are only 8 months old.

Don

[ColbertWatcher]

18. Fair Enough...

...but without autopsies, real investigations and real reporting, we will never really know how these people died.

I do not trust that the GOP won't just go off and say it was Iran that did this.

[louis-t]

14. So that means that bush has already killed

more people than Saddam?

[ColbertWatcher]

17. We already knew that!

What I'm wondering is: how will these discoveries be spun by the GOP-controlled media?

Bodies in a mass grave didn't just happen. It's not like when Jesus buried dinosaur bones to trick evolutionists.



How the people died must be discovered and truthfully reported and not spun to benefit the GOP plan to invade/attack Iran.

[Purveyor]

6. Very little honest reporting is taking place in Iraq for the good reporters end up dead, kidnapped

or in jail.

Basically the same as honest reporting out of Gaza.