From: "Mark" 


"jeff"  wrote in message
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> 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.

What I was reading on it last year was along the lines of, first setting up
enough temporary morgues and getting crews in place, and secondly not
making the grave sites public so as to prevent people from swarming in to
try and find their loved ones, thus destroying the ability to identify all
of the intermixed remains. Recently I also read that the Europeans that
have experience from other areas in the world aren't being allowed to help,
for fear that they'll be helping to build a case for capital punishment for
Saddam.

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