The Liberal Avenger
From the Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi police in Ramadi uncovered 17 decomposing corpses buried in two schoolyards in a district that had been controlled by insurgents.
The bodies of adults were discovered in the capital of Al Anbar province after students and teachers returned to the schools a week ago and noticed an increasingly putrid odor and stray dogs digging in the area, police Maj. Laith Dulaimi said Tuesday.
But that's not the whole story. Zeynab of Gorilla's Guides spotted a detail in the Arabic news reports that was missing from English-language accounts:
According to Dr Ali Abdullah of the Ramadi Hospital, ”The diagnosis was of the bodies showed they had not been killed at one time, but at various times.”
In other words this had been going on for at least a few days.
Zeynab also relates a personal experience that she's had with a decaying body:
Yes this is a schoolyard. It is in al-Bakr neighbourhood in central Ramadi. Yes those are dead bodies in their schoolyard.
It is one of seventeen dead bodies found in their schoolyard to be precise.
Yes they look very disgusted. So would you be. You have never smelt a body after it’s been dead a few days?
I have.
It’s one of my last memories of my husband. Being taken to the morgue and finding his body after he’d been dead for a few days and the dreadful smell of a dead human being after they have been dead a few days.
Just go. Go back home to America and take the murdering jackals you have unleashed on my children with you.
(cross posted at appletree)
