4/15/1998

“In interviews with Radio Free Iraq and the London Observer…a senior Mukhabarat [Iraq’s intelligence/secret police] officer who served on the [Abu Ghraib] prison’s supervisory committee testified that on a single day in April 1998, his committee executed two thousand dissidents: ‘Some were hanged. Others were shot. Each victim was shot once in the head.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 10