Iraqis learn to dig up grisly past in search of justice
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A few dozen Iraqis being trained in forensics carry on their shoulders the hopes of millions of their countrymen hoping to discover the fate of relatives who disappeared under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark...
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Residents of the neighborhood where 24 Iraqi civilians were allegedly massacred by Marines say the military investigation has been surprisingly thorough. But that doesn't mean they can ever forgive, or forget, what happened
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.
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SEDAR, Iraq -- The first thing Abdullah Mohammed Hussein wants to talk about on the witness stand at Saddam Hussein's trial are his seven dead children, and how they were dumped into a shallow grave in northern Iraq after they were shot in the head, along with their mother.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- Real power on Iraq's streets often lies in the hands of men like Sadi Ahmed Pire.
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The sign in the city center warns women that they'd better adhere to Muslim teachings or face the penalty. And all around the Iraqi city of Basra, women are showing up dead -- many beaten and beheaded. Some have been strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
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The Iraqi interior minister promises the families of six murdered Red Caps he will try to bring their killers to justice.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The former director of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal said politics could create &quot;show trials&quot; for Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi leaders.
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Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- An examination of the remains of hundreds of Kurdish men, women and children discovered in three mass graves show they were lined up, gunned down and buried where they fell almost two decades ago, an American forensic expert testified Thursday in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein.
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BAGHDAD -- Marwa Hussein watched as gunmen stormed into her home and executed her parents. Afterward, her uncle brought her to the Alwiya Orphanage, a high-walled compound nestled in central Baghdad with a concrete yard for a playground. That was more than two years ago, and for 13-year-old Marwa,...
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The remains are being unearthed as part of an investigation looking for evidence to use against Saddam Hussein in his future trial.
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US-led war crimes investigators in Iraq yesterday unearthed a mass grave containing the bodies of men, women and children they hope will provide evidence to help convict Saddam Hussein of human rights atrocities.
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Residents buried the dead as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- The scars of war line every vista leading to the gold dome of the Shrine of Ali. Fire has blackened hotel facades, shells have punched through apartment buildings, and bombs have leveled rows of shops in the normally bustling warren of streets around Iraq's most revered Shi'ite mosque.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Black-painted graffiti lauding Saddam Hussein appeared overnight in his home town and small groups of mourners turned out at his grave on Sunday, the first anniversary of the former Iraqi leader's execution.