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Kuwait finds mass grave for 55 Iraqi soldiers
2010-05-07
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait on Thursday announced the discovery of a mass grave for 55 Iraqi soldiers killed during the 1991 war in which a US-led coalition force evicted Saddam Hussein's forces from the Gulf emirate.

Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Mohammed Al Saber said in a statement cited by the official KUNA agency that the grave was found in the north of the country near the border with Iraq. Saber said that representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, coalition forces, the Iraqi human rights ministry, Iraqi forensic experts and Kuwaiti interior ministry officials were present at the site.

He said the remains of the soldiers were identified from their uniforms, adding that the bodies also had Iraqi military IDs and death certificates issued by coalition forces. Saber did not elaborate on the original circumstances of their burial, or why the location of the grave site was not recorded.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  "Yep, this one's dead" is pretty much what a death certificate says. Or "really most sinceeeeerely dead" if you're not in to the whole brevity thing.
Posted by: gromky   2010-05-07 06:20  

#3  I don't understand why the Coalition was issuing death certificates during the 1991 Gulf War. What could the death certificate say, anyway? Something like "Yep, this one's dead". Were their families supposed to come pick up the bodies and pull the death certificate out of their teeth or something? Did some Kuwaiti get all PO'd and just shove a truckload of them in a hole despite procedures? Were they unclaimed and therefore just buried because of the heat?

And why would Iraqi military forces from 1991 have Coalition IDs? Was it part of issuing a death certificate?
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-07 04:11  

#2  Obviously an army bureaucrat screwed up and didn't record the gravesite.
Posted by: gromky   2010-05-07 03:28  

#1  bodies also had Iraqi military IDs and death certificates issued by coalition forces

Huh?
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-07 00:52  

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