Massacre in Fallujah and mass graves?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

Today on the local Air America station in Los Angeles, I heard host Johnny Wendell discuss the possible killing of 100,000 people in Fallujah alone. He also cited a source that indicates the U.S. had buried thousands of individuals in mass graves and poured active lime over their bodies to bring on rapid decomposition and eliminate the evidence. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the source of his information. Has anyone else heard this story? It was my understanding that Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was going to write a story about the Fallujah campaign and the possible use of napalm. But I guess that story was smothered the way Seymour Hersch's story about the child rape at Abu Ghraib was also smothered.

The only thing I have found on this mass grave story regarding Fallujah is a reference in a blog which in turn references two Arabic language websites dated Wednesday May 18, 2005:

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11803

(Quoting the poster Raed Jarrar at this website)

"...I found a strange article while reading Al-Jazeera's NewsPapers' Review ( http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7A9888DC-BC65-471C-ABCE-9
41FD298CF25.htm ).
It's a piece in the Saudi Al-Watan Daily Newspaper: http://www.alwatan.com.sa/daily/2005-05-17/first_page/first_
page01.htm

I can't confirm the Authenticity of this article. I'll just translate it without adding comments from my side.

Dozens of massacres after the Fallujah military Operations

European Sources (in the NATO): Americans buried Iraqis in the Desert and Added Chemicals to accelerate the decomposition of their bodies

A military source in the NATO has announced to "Al-Watan" that military information are being discussed behind closed doors in Brussels concerning dozens of US massacres of Iraqis after the end of the military operations in Fallujah. The source said that those information accuse the US army of burying the dead bodies in mass graves and adding various chemical materials, including Active Lime, to guarantee that all evidence will disappear. The source claimed that those mass graves were spread over the desert near the northern region of Iraq.

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Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 12:32 AM ..."

[riverwalker]

1. news blackout

it would explain why no media were allowed near Fallujah.

I guess there will be another script rewrite for the Harrison Ford movie about the glorious "victory" of the worlds most powerful military over a third world city full of civilians.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Segrena published this story before she was shot

Napalm Raid on Falluja?
73 charred bodies -- women and children -- were found

GIULIANA SGRENA
«We buried them, but we could not identify them because they were charred from the napalm bombs used by the Americans». People from Saqlawiya village, near Falluja, told al Jazeera television, based in Qatar, that they helped bury 73 bodies of women and children completely charred, all in the same grave. The sad story of common graves, which started at Saddam’s times, is not yet finished. Nobody could confirm if napalm bombs have been used in Falluja, but other bodies found last year after the fierce battle at Baghdad airport were also completely charred and some thought of nuclear bombs. No independent source could verify the facts, since all the news arrived until now are those spread by journalists embedded with the American troops, who would only allow British and American media to enrol with them. But the villagers who fled in the last few days spoke of many bodies which had not been buried: it was too dangerous to collect the corpses during the battle.

more...

http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dd721e0ff0.html

I believe she had collected evidence and pictures, which would make her a prime target for being 'silenced'.

[stillcool]

3. Did you check out Iraq Dispatches......

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/
he's got lots of information of Fallujah, as well as what the war has done to people all over Iraq.