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Article: Up to 30 bodies unearthed in mass grave northeast of Baghdad
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 14, 2008
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Up to 30 bodies unearthed in mass grave northeast of Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. troops found a mass grave
containing up to 30 bodies near a restive town northeast of Baghdad,
the U.S. military said on Monday.
"Multi-National Division - North Soldiers Sunday discovered
between 20-30 bodies buried in a mass grave south of Muqdadiyah,
some 100 km northeast of Baghdad," the military said in a statement.
"All the bodies were badly decomposed and appear to have been at
the site nearly eight months," said the statement.
The U.S. forces could not tell whether the bodies had been
tortured at the time of the death, the ...