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'Hostage slaughterhouses' found in Falluja
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-11 00:47 Iraq's military said on Wednesday it had found houses in
northern Falluja where hostages had been held and killed by their militant
kidnappers, and records of those abducted.
"We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Falluja
that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to
identify themselves," newly appointed provincial military governor Major-General
Abdul-Qader Jassim said.
Jassim, briefing reporters at the main U.S. military base outside the city
that thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops are fighting to wrest from rebel
control, said "hundreds" of CDs and records with the names of hostages had been
found in the houses.
Asked if the records named foreign hostages being held, he said: "I did not
look closely."
He gave no further details and did not say if it was clear whether foreigners
were among the hostages held or killed in the houses. Militant groups still hold
several foreign hostages, including British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan and
two French journalists.
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