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

From the National Security Archives press release today: “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.”

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