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2010-05-07 Arabia

Kuwait finds mass grave for 55 Iraqi soldiers

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

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

Huh?

Posted by gorb 2010-05-07 00:52|| 2010-05-07 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously an army bureaucrat screwed up and didn't record the gravesite.

Posted by gromky 2010-05-07 03:28|| 2010-05-07 03:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-05-07 04:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-05-07 06:20|| Front Page Top

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