Reply #4: here's a pic of the soccer field mass grave from mid-April: [View All]

[Minstrel Boy]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/04/12/falluja_graves,0.jpg

Flight from a town where sports fields are graveyards

In Falluja, it's the soccer field that haunts them. Ali Mohammed Nasser, father of six, made himself go and look through the fence before packing his family into a minibus to belt across the desert to Baghdad.

Cross-legged on a cushion in a relative's home, he stared ahead: "There are many shallow graves - maybe 400. The bodies of women, old men and children. Some already buried; in others, the bodies of three children at a time were being cremated. A man who was burning the bodies was shot as he worked - I didn't see who killed him."

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The director of Falluja's general hospital, Rafie Al-Issawi, told reporters that the estimate of 600 was based on the number of bodies received at four clinics in the town and reports of the dead being buried at two sports fields and in people's homes.

But US marine Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne said in Falluja: "What I think you will find is 95 per cent of them were military age males that were killed in the fighting. The marines are trained to be precise . . . the fact that there are 600 goes back to the fact that the marines are very good at what they do."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621902273.html