From: jeff 

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.

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