File: 970107_sep96_decls19_0007.txt
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Subject: COMMANDERS SITREP 70                                            

Unit: VII CORPS   

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box  ID: BX000269

Folder Title: DAILY STAFF JOURNALS-29 MAR 91-2                                                                

Document Number:         12

Folder Seq  #:         55




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             SUMMARY EXECUTION OF SUSPECTED INSURGENTS  AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND

             HUNDREDS DEAD FROM INDISCRIMINATE KILLING  IN AN NASARIYAH, AN

             NAJ-AF, KARBALA, AND AS SA14AWAH. ONE REFUGEE FROM IAD SECTOR

             REPORTED THAT CONGESTED COLUMNS OF VEHICLES BETWEEN AN NAJAF AND

             @ALA WERE NAPALMED ON 21 AND 22 MAR, KILLING THOUSANDS. ALSO

             THAT DESERTERS WERE BEING TIED TO POLES AND SHOT, TORTURED IN

             PRISONS WITH ELECTRICITY, WALKING BAREFOOT ON NAILS, AND BEING

             TIED BY THEIR PEET TO CEILING FANS. ANOTHER SOURCE INDICATED


             THAT AN RGFC COMMANDER, AYAD FITAIIAL RAREY, PERSONALLY EXECUTED

             30 MEN IN AL BASRAII ON 25 MAR, AND THAT RGFC MEMBERS WERE KILLING



             THE FAMILY MEMBERS AS THEY CAME TO IDENTIFY THEIR DEAD RELATIVES


             AT THE MORGUES. EPW'S CONTINUE TO REPORT SUMMARY EXECUTION OF


             DESERTERS AND FORMER EPW'S. RELIABILITY OF REFUGEE REPORTS HAS


             NOT BEEN DETERMINED IN ALMOST ALL CASES. UNDOUBTEDLY, SOME

             EXAGGERATION HAS EMBELLISHED CERTAIN REPORTS, HOWEVER, SOME

             INDISCRIMINATE AND DELIBERATE KILLINGS HAVE SIMILARLY BEEN


             REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES.

                 E. N UNIT (MAIN) LOCATIONS'- 1AD -. QUO17595; 3AD

             QU533089; ICD - NS668572; L(UK)AD - QT640563; IID(M) - PU545297;

             2ACR   XV709348; 11AB - KU596903; CORPS ARTILLERY - PU425156.

             2.      FUTURE PLANS: CORPS WILL CONTINUE SEARCH AND RECOVERY

             OPERATIONS FOR US VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT IN IRAQ; ESTABLISHMENT

             OF KUWAITI SECURITY FORCE; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; SELECT UNITS

             WILL CONTINUE TO CONDUCT RECONNAISSANCE ON SUSPECTED CHEMICAL AND


             BIOLOGICAL STORAGE SITES IN KTO IDENTIFIED PRIOR TO THE GROUND

             WAR. PLANNING IS ONGOING FOR MOVEMENT OF CORPS TO RAA'S,


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