# What happened to all those bodies from Saddam's gas attack?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-bodies-from-saddams-gas-attack/150475 "2003-01-23T16:53:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dragline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Dragline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragline)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-bodies-from-saddams-gas-attack/150475/1 "2003-01-23T16:53:43Z")

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Remember back when Saddam gassed all those Kurds, and the bodies were filmed laying in the streets? IIRC, there were about 5,000 or so. What do you do with such a pile of rotting meat? I would imagine the survivors were somewhat dismayed at the prospect, but Islam I think requires quick burial. Heavy earth moving machinery would be in short supply, too. They didn’t just lay in the street, did they?

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(It must suck to be a Kurd - we need a thread: "Ask the Kurd")
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**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-bodies-from-saddams-gas-attack/150475/2 "2003-01-23T17:06:10Z")

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It sure must suck to be a Kurd. Check out this, but not right before or after you eat:

[http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/](http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/)

There’s more background on Iraq on Human Rights Watch’s main site ([www.hrw.org](http://www.hrw.org)). It’s enough to turn anyone’s stomach.

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-bodies-from-saddams-gas-attack/150475/3 "2003-01-24T00:51:01Z")

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We are all up in arms about Hussein gassing his own people (the Kurds) - but I remember reading somewhere that the Kurds in the north of Iraq have actually voluntarily hosted Al Qaeda members - and maybe still are. Can anyone confirm or refute that?

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**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-those-bodies-from-saddams-gas-attack/150475/4 "2003-01-24T15:37:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DarrenS \*  
> \*\*We are all up in arms about Hussein gassing his own people (the Kurds) - but I remember reading somewhere that the Kurds in the north of Iraq have actually voluntarily hosted Al Qaeda members - and maybe still are. Can anyone confirm or refute that? \*\*

I don’t know whether Al-Qaeda has ben hiding out in Kurdish-controlled territory. However, even if they are there right now,

1. Al-Qaeda in its current form probably didn’t exist during the period of the Anfal; and

2. does the possible presence of a few lunatics justify genocide agains tthe Kurds?