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National Catholic Reporter, June 6, 2003

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Caption: Shoes found in a mass grave are set out for identification in Al Mesayeb in central Iraq May 22. Relatives are attempting to identify the remains of family members whose bodies were exhumed from several mass graves. Local residents believe the graves contain the remains of hundreds of Shiite Muslims executed by the regime of Saddam Hussein after an uprising in 1991.