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[ This message has been sent to you via the CASI-analysis mailing list ] [ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] The importance of preserving and forensicly analysing mass graves is vital - Tom's posting - and highlighted in the last para of the article - "You have to ask people to wait even though we may never be able to giv= e all the answers," said Haglund. "But graves of dead people are powerful, = heart-wrenching political forces that should be examined with care." Graves are indeed powerful. Will the US and even possibly the UK, Italians, Poles, be asked to account for some allegedly theirs - wedding massacres, Fallujah, Samarrah, Kufa, Najav, Kerbala, Baladi, Ramadi, Mosul spring to mind with some question marks too over Basra. But maybe there are bad mass graves and good mass graves. 'Political forces' indeed. However when US troops are virtually excempt from accoutability, 'Freedom and democrocy' gets more and more confusing. Best, all, felicity a. _______________________________________ Sent via the CASI-analysis mailing list To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-analysis All postings are archived on CASI's website at http://www.casi.org.uk