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**WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS** Al Qaeda Says It Beheads U.S. Hostage in Saudi . . . Fri Jun 18 2004 15:00:25 ET

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Mass graves in Iraq are characterized as unmarked sites containing at least six bodies. Some can be identified by mounds of earth piled above the ground or as deep pits that appear to have been filled. Some older graves are more difficult to identify, having been covered by vegetation and debris over time. Sites have been discovered in all regions of the country and contain members of every major religious and ethnic group in Iraq as well as foreign nationals, including Kuwaitis and Saudis. Over 250 sites have been reported, of which approximately 40 have been confirmed to date. Over one million Iraqis are believed to be missing in Iraq as a result of executions, wars and defections, of whom hundreds of thousands are thought to be in mass graves.             At first I was horrified that you suggested such a thing because I'm very squeamish. I don't like watching people suffer. I don't like watching pain -- and the more I thought about it, the more I thought you do have a really good point that we need to strengthen our resolve and know our enemy really well. So if they would show the pictures of the beheadings, I would like to see them. I would not enjoy seeing them but I will watch them because I think that my resolve needs to be strengthened and everybody's resolve needs to be strengthened at this point. But the other thing I'm going to watch that I'm not inclined to watch is the Michael Moore movie, and that's for the same reason I think we need to know our enemy and I think Michael Moore at this point is one of the enemy and I'd like to urge you to see the movie, too, just so that we can answer people's questions and when they talk about the movie and when they say,             The discovery of mass graves in Iraq graphically testifies to the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the challenges of building a more pluralistic and law-based state. Both the dead and the living are victims of the crimes that are buried in these graves. We cannot bring back the hundreds of thousands of missing Iraqis. However, identification of as many bodies as possible and accountability for the circumstances of their deaths will enable them to move forward to build a society that respects and protects fundamental human rights and dignity.             Opponents and critics of the regime from all religious and ethnic groups were also executed and buried in mass graves. Many of these are believed to be located at or near prisons and former military establishments. These crimes have acquired a measure of notoriety and salience. Thousands of other Iraqis, including Marsh Arabs, Shi’a Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s, and students involved in uprisings in Najaf in 1999 may also be lying in mass graves in Iraq.                          M04                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      



            




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**WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS** Al Qaeda Says It Beheads U.S. Hostage in Saudi . . . Fri Jun 18 2004 15:00:25 ET