Mass graves in Tikrit might contain 1,700 bodies

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Source: CNN

Tikrit, Iraq (CNN)Mass graves believed to hold Iraqi soldiers have been discovered in newly liberated Tikrit.

Up to 1,700 bodies may be recovered. ISIS claimed to have executed that many soldiers captured in June outside Camp Speicher, a fortified Iraqi base near Tikrit.

CNN's Arwa Damon saw nine bodies recovered by forensics experts at one of the excavation sites. Grieving Iraqis, apparently not related to the soldiers, gathered to pray over the bodies. When the first three bodies were found, 10 Iraqi soldiers saluted the dead by firing seven shots into the air. The national anthem was played while soldiers wept.

All the bodies were decomposed. Some had their hands bound, Damon said. The remains will be sent back to Baghdad for DNA tests to establish identify, said Ali Tahir, a director in the Iraqi morgue who was supervising the digging and extraction.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/06/middleeast/iraq-mass-graves/

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1. Bush and Cheney lit the fires of hell

I can only hope they are not so far "gone" to realize they started all of this when they killed Saddam.

[Little Tich]

2. Why would they even care? n/t

[Skittles]

4. both are sociopaths

they think no more of dead soldiers than when they squash a bug

[Rebubula]

3. To be fair....

...this has been brewing since 700 CE. This would have happened at some point.

Now...that said....if there is a Hell (which I do not believe to be real), Bush\Cheney INC. will all be there.

[Skittles]

5. Dubya poking a stick in a hornet's nest certainly did not help

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6. Baloney

Most of these ISIS assholes were unemployed Iraqi soldiers, thanks to the utter stupidity of Paul Bremer.

[romanic]

8. True.

But let's be real, Bush/Cheney were the stick that struck the hornet's nest that was brewing in that region.

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7. its only the JV....nt