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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44544)	9/7/2003 4:02:53 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Atrocities at now forgotten Abu Ghuraib and Al Hilla----stood atop a mound of powdery dirt overlooking the graves of about 900 people summarily executed during a Shi'ite Muslim uprising after the 1991 Persian Gulf war. Mr. Rumsfeld visited a mass grave site and a Saddam Hussein execution chamber, paying grim homage to atrocities of the deposed Iraqi president's rule. Mr. Rumsfeld stood atop a mound of powdery dirt overlooking the graves of about 900 people summarily executed during a Shi'ite Muslim uprising after the 1991 Persian Gulf war. They were the unidentified among more than 3,000 massacre victims unearthed in Al Hillah, a 1,000-year-old city near the site of ancient Babylon, shortly after American forces moved through last spring on the way to Baghdad. Dr. Rafid al-Hussuni, a physician who lost two uncles and two close friends in the massacre, stood beside a somber Mr. Rumsfeld and explained his efforts to safeguard mass graves around the country. Dr. al-Hussuni was involved in the Al Hillah exhumations and started a volunteer group to counsel patience among Iraqis desperate to open the mass graves to find the remains of loved ones. Hasty and haphazard searches could destroy evidence in possible criminal prosecution of those responsible. "If you can arrest all those people and put them on trial, the hearts of the Iraqi people will be satisfied," said Dr. al-Hussuni, who still has not found the remains of his uncles or his friends. The visit was part of Mr. Rumsfeld's third day of a tour of Iraq to see results of the invasion he helped direct from the Pentagon. The defense secretary also has met with American military commanders and troops, as well as with L. Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led civilian administration in Iraq. Later yesterday, Mr. Rumsfeld toured the cinderblock death house at the notorious Abu Ghuraib prison outside Baghdad. He stood in the stifling concrete room where condemned prisoners went to their deaths. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, commander of the U.S. Army military police brigade now in charge of the prison, demonstrated how prisoners were hanged from ropes tied to metal bars in the ceiling. She pushed a lever and doors in the floor opened with a deafening metallic clang. "I can tell it was designed to impose fear on all Iraqis," Mr. Rumsfeld said. Saddam emptied Abu Ghuraib and most other prisons in Iraq in October as the United States prepared to invade. Guards and looters stripped the prisons of most useable equipment, and officials systematically burned prison records, Gen. Karpinski said. <>Atrocities of Iraqi regime against Iraqis constitutes a bigger crime than WMD’s, three million Iraqi man have lost lives in last two decades as cost of war against Iran, Kuwait and the present Gulf war 2. Even the ratio of Iraqi man to woman favorable to Iraqi man in 1970’s in demographic patterns has changed in favor of woman due to this mass eradication of young man as cannon fodder for vain wars. Human rights charter of UN does not permit such actions by any regime, the removal of this regime will help foment stable and peaceful Middle East, the conflicts here date back to centuries and no instant gratification should be ever expected however we continue to hope for peace dividend the eluded this region as a direct result of political rejectionism isolation and policies to self immolate. Ike