Aziz family defends ex-Iraqi minister
Tariq Aziz, deposed foreign minister and deputy prime minister, could be the best-known Baathist after Saddam Hussein.
(2003-12-21)
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Justice for Saddam won't be easy
Dr. Rafid Al-Husseini's search through mass graves south of Baghdad was personal. (2003-12-16)
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Iraqis train for gruesome task
Forensic archaeologist Jon Sterenberg explains to 16 Iraqi archaeologists and geologists how to open a mass grave. (2003-12-16)
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Iraqi army officer saw Saddam's brutality
In the winter of 1991, Iraq's military brutally crushed a Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein. But the regime continued its killing. (2003-12-16)
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'This was the last view they had'
| Early in the morning, two Land Rovers cross the desert flanked by army trucks full of Bulgarian soldiers. The convoy creeps past piles of unexploded mortar shells before halting on an isolated, windblown patch of sand. (2003-12-15) |
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Families often make search more difficult
When Saddam Hussein's regime toppled in April, thousands of Iraqis started scouring the country for missing family and friends. (2003-12-15)
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'We knew death awaited us'
Just past a cold, cloudy midnight in March 1991, Abdelraheem Ali Moussa -- blindfolded, hands bound -- stumbled onboard a stolen Kuwaiti bus. With 30 men, women and children, he was driven to a field behind Mahaweel Republican Brick Factory, where everyone was shot. (2003-12-14)
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'Every file a horror story'
In a Shiite section of the capital known as Kadhimiyya, nine volunteers sift through stacks of regime files. The International Human League for Prisoners and Missing Persons, led by Ayatollah Imad Al-Awadi, collected some 3 million files from offices of the old intelligence and security services. (2003-12-14)
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'Absolutely overwhelming'
Abdel Qader Zaidan wanders around the piles of dirt on the outskirts of this dusty village, 25 miles north of Baghdad. He peers at each small hand-painted metal sign describing the bodies reburied underfoot. (2003-12-14)