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| Iraq |
| Mass grave with 50 unknown bodies found in Samarra |
| 2008-06-30 |
| (VOI) – A force from the Iraqi army's Quick Intervention unit unearthed a mass grave west of the city of Samarra containing 50 decomposed bodies, the unit commander said on Sunday. "The grave, discovered on Saturday evening in the area of al-Tharthar, (30 km) west of Samarra, contained 50 bodies in the form of skeletons. Some of them were buried randomly," Maj. Muthanna Shakir told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). "The victims were clad in civilian clothes and showed signs of having been shot," said Shakir, adding the corpses were found in area where al-Qaeda network used to control in the past. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 So what's your point. The U.S. was still a country in 1972, even earlier actually. I hear roumors of mass graves soon to be found in the City of Mexico. Folks in the know say |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-06-30 13:20 |
| #2 What really sucks is that sites like icasualties.org will lump these 50 in with this month's civilian casualties and make this month's numbers look worse than they are. I have a feeling that such graves will be unearthed for years to come. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-06-30 01:42 |
| #1 "The victims were clad in civilian clothes and showed signs of having been shot," said Shakir, adding the corpses were found in area where al-Qaeda network used to control in the past. Samarra Iraq is on the Tigris River, 50m miles North of Baghdad. Al-Tharthar Lake, is 30 km. West of Samarra. al-Tharthar Lake, is the largest lake in Iraq. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-06-30 01:36 |
