(London Times) - Catherine Philp American military officials are investigating a mass grave believed to contain the victims of a political purge carried out in the last hours of Saddam Hussein's regime. "We believe what we have here is a war crimes site," said Major Crawford, the National Guard commander guarding the site. Relatives identified some of the bodies as men arrested in raids on Sufi mosques in Baghdad since the beginning of the war after the regime apparently uncovered plans for an uprising by members of the persecuted minority.
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