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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Declassified Gov't Documents and Reports on 30 Years of Human Rights Abuses in Iraq

From the BeSpacific Blog, 10/18/2005:

From the National Security Archives press release:
"The National Security Archive today posted a series
of declassified U.S. intelligence documents and other
U.S. agency reports on Saddam Hussein's human rights
abuses, one of which is the subject of the first trial of
Saddam which begins tomorrow in Iraq."

The documents span the period from 1975 to 2004.
The final document posted, by the U.S. Agency for
International Development, titled Iraq's Legacy of
Terror: MASS GRAVES, January 2004 (16 pages,
PDF), quotes British Prime Minister Tony Blair's
statement from November 20, 2003, "we've already
discovered just so far the remains of 400,000 people
in mass graves."