From: Adam Flinton 

jeff wrote:

> Adam Flinton wrote:
>
>> Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>> http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041013-073535-6643r.htm
>>>
>>> I never doubted that a lot of Kurds were massacred, but this report
>>> seems
>>> to suggest a specific location used numerous times.
>>>
>>> Let us see if this can be tracked to Saddam, with his personal
>>> knowledge of
>>> it confirmed.
>>>
>>> (For all the horrors of the Holocaust, Hitler kept his fingers
>>> clean.  It
>>> would have been very hard to convict him.)
>>>
>>
>> Interesting for a number of reasons
>>
>> A) It is a site which has been known about for some time (mass graves
>> are especially difficult to conceal from overhead electronic eyes).
>>
>> B) After all this time, I find it odd that they should "suddenly
>> discover" this site just in the run up to a US presidential election.
>>
>> C) It's in essence a civil war mass grave. It would have been more
>> politically usefull to find a "mixed grave" where all sorts of
>> opponents of Mr Hussein were dumped.
>>
>> Adam
>
>
> I saw one report that mentioned that a lack of manpower (graves don't
> tend to go away...) is limiting them to digging up one mass grave at a
> time. There was a reasonable explanation for the timing, and it was
> nothing political.
>

Yeeaahhh reallly. I'm sorry but the "nothing political" wrt
digging up mass graves is always a lie.

In terms of the man power...again I have problems given the position of the
site & the fact that the Kurds could happily have provided security.

Employ some locals to do the digging, forensic types sent in via Turkey.
Seems odd that there is such high local employment rate that no local
manual workers could be found even for good wages.

Adam

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