On Wednesday another mass grave was found amid brush near a school...

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/641329,iraq110807.article

<snip>To the west of Baghdad, seven more decomposed bodies have been unearthed in Iraq's once restive Anbar province, police said.

The victims, who were blindfolded and handcuffed, were found Wednesday in the Lake Tharthar area during a joint operation with the U.S. forces, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisal.

Last Saturday, Iraqi soldiers found 22 bodies in the Lake Tharthar area, about 60 miles northwest of Baghdad.

On Wednesday another mass grave was found amid brush near a school in Hashimiyat, west of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. The city is the capital of Diyala province, where al-Qaida in Iraq is believed to have a strong presence.

Many of those bodies also were handcuffed and blindfolded, police said. They likely were passengers kidnapped at fake checkpoints on a nearby road leading to Baqouba, a dangerous route dubbed the ''road of death.''

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1. makes me wonder ...

was one of the "mass graves" found in Iraq in the early days of the war one of those which our troops did with the bulldozers in 91?

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2. More interesting is the actual number of bodies found in all those Saddam era mass graves

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html

PM admits graves claim 'untrue'

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday July 18, 2004
The Observer

Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.

The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.

In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'

On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings already found in mass graves.'