Baghdad mass grave may contain 15,000 bodies

A mass grave outside Baghdad which may contain the remains of up to 15,000 bodies provides justification for the war in Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s former head of protocol said today.

Haitham Rashid Wihaib said he believed the grisly discoveries at al-Mahawil, where so far more than 3,000 human remains have been uncovered, was a “crime against humanity”.