Mass Graves for Unreported Dead GIs--Graphic (but source questionable) [View All]

[Gloria]

I don't know anything about TBRNews.org or The Harring Report: The National Young Men’s Meat Grinder

However, this story is listed as from AFP....so, make of it what you will.


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The mass graves for unreported dead GIs in Iraq finally uncovered





AFP- There has been a total news blackout on the exhumation of mass graves of unreported U.S. military dead in areas of western Iraq.

US military aircraft flew over these areas and tossed out large numbers of black and white composition bags over that area which contains several mass graves for American dead soldiers.. These bodies were buried after fierce fighting in the area and not, as often stated, listed in the DoD daily casualty lists or considered for shipment back to the United States. Mortuary facilities in occupied Iraq are very poor, or non-existent, and far more of the dead are simply buried where they fell rather than attempting to ship the remains back to Baghdad for proper burial procedures. Under the prevailing conditions, embalming is impossible and refrigerated storage non-existent.

U.S. forces used heavy earth-moving equipment to prepare mass graves where dead soldiers were quickly buried because the high temperatures caused rapid decay. These mass grave areas had subsequently attracted stray dogs and they quickly dug up and ate some of the bodies, which were only partly, or lightly buried. Hence, body parts and bones were spread all over the desert.

The bodies, or what was left of them, were later all exhumed by U.S. units and put into the official body bags for eventual shipment to the Dover AFB. There exist a number of photographs of this gruesome activity, taken by foreign journalists, but the majority of them have been seized and redacted by Military Police acting on specific orders from the Department of Defense.

Comment: There is additional information that would indicate that local Iraqis, outraged by their perceptions that American troops slaughtered civilians and desecrated mosques, have dug up and brutally mutilated many bodies, displaying body parts as trophies of their grisly hunts. There are color pictures of such things but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof and we decline to publish these. Ed.