More mass graves found in Iraq
From the
NY Times
Iraqis Find Graves Thought to Hold Hussein's Victims
Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein's government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies, Iraqi officials say.
The graves, discovered over the past three months, have not yet been dug up because of the risks posed by the continuing insurgency and the lack of qualified forensic workers, said Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's interim human rights minister. But initial excavations have substantiated the accounts of witnesses to a number of massacres. If the estimated body counts prove correct, the new graves would be among the largest in the grim tally of mass killings that have gradually come to light since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government two years ago. At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the American invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.
Emphasis mine. And there are people who still insist that Saddam is innocent and that our going into Iraq was an act of imperialism. Mental Illness is what comes to mind as the facts are so clear and obvious even as grudgingly presented by the MSM.
Posted by DaveH at April 15, 2005 4:58 PM