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Mass grave discovered near Baghdad
Iraqi military forces have discovered more than 30 corpses in a mass grave at a house south of Iraq's war-torn capitol Baghdad. "Initial reports indicate the remains have been buried more than a year ago," at the house in the town of Mahmudiyah, the US military said in a statement. AFP reported that the statement said the Iraqi army was excavating surrounding areas. Mahmudiyah, which in the so-called Sunni "triangle of death" region, has been the center of intense activity by al-Qaeda-led insurgents in recent years. Human rights group believe there are hundreds of mass graves in Iraq, mostly of people killed during the regime of Saddam Hussein and also as a result of ethnic infighting ignited by the American invasion of Iraq. Posted by: Fred 2008-04-11 |
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