Fourteen more mass graves have been discovered in post-Saddam Iraq since last week, the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress (INC) said. "Only (Monday) another mass grave was found in Jurf al-Sakhr, in central Iraq, with more than 430 bodies discovered," said INC spokesman Entifadh Qanbar. "We think this is the tip of the iceberg with many more to come." He said 14 new mass graves were found in the southern cities of Najaf, Karbala, Basra and Samawa, in Khanaqin and Kirkuk in the north, and the latest one in Jurf al-Sakhr. "Response to the discovery of mass graves in Iraq has been insufficient," he said. "We again call for the international community, for human rights organisations to come and participate and help Iraqis identify relatives."
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The group said last week that a grave in the town of Habbaniyah outside Baghdad was believed to have contained at least some of the roughly 600 Kuwaitis missing since the 1991 Gulf War. Kuwaiti forensic teams are investigating that claim. Mr Qanbar said the INC has set up a committee to list the Iraqis reported missing under Saddam Hussein's rule. Human rights groups have said as many as 300,000 people may have been executed by his regime.
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