Uncovered: The Secret Grave of 600 Murdered Kuwaitis

(London Times) - Marie Colvin The bodies of Saddam’s victims are being dug out of the ground every day in Iraq. Nine feet under a former Iraqi army base, the bodies of 600 Kuwaiti prisoners of war missing since 1991 have been found, revealed by a former member of the Iraqi secret police who sought a share of a $1m reward offered by Kuwait for information about their fate. For 12 years, Iraqi officials pretended the Kuwaitis were alive and being held as POWs.


2003-05-16 00:00:00

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