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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (90454)	4/5/2003 9:46:10 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

There may well be a less incriminating reason for those bodies. They were desiccated, and obviously fairly old. New boxes. Sounds about right. english.aljazeera.net Remains of 200 killed in Iran-Iraq war found near Basra Forensic experts are investigating the remains of up to 200 people found by British forces in a rundown military complex on Saturday near Iraq’s second largest city Basra. "They discovered some bodies in a barracks between Basra and Az Zubair," a British military spokeswoman at Central Command headquarters in Qatar said. Television footage showed dozens of wooden coffins, bones in plastic bags and pieces of military uniform as well as photographs of slain men most of which appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head. It was not clear whether the pictures had anything to do with the corpses. A skull found with other human remains alongside coffins and and photos of dead bodies at an abandoned Iraqi base near the city of Basra A British military spokesman on the scene was quoted as saying the bodies – which were described as desiccated - might be from a previous war since they were quite old. Al Jazeera television quoted an unnamed Iraqi official in Basra as saying the remains were those of Iraqi soldiers killed in the 1980-1988 war with Iran and recently repatriated by Tehran. The official said the start of the Anglo-American war on Iraq prevented officials from returning the bodies to their families. Iran and Iraq still exchange prisoners and bodies even though the war ended 15 years ago and the last prisoner swap took place on March 19 – a day before the start of the current war. --- Al Jazeera with agencies