While they're not finding many weapons of mass destruction, the British Marines are finding some gruesome discoveries.
Grim clues to police station's past
By Tom Newton Dunn
In Abu al Khasib, in southern Iraq
Their faces stared up at me in black and white, snap shots of individual lives frozen in time.
Dozens and dozens of Iraqi national identity cards were spread across the chief of police's abandoned large oak desk.
All of them were men, aged between around 20 and 50 - people's sons, husbands, brothers, or fathers.
In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it is a crime not to carry these identity cards wherever you go, a crime punishable by imprisonment.
We stopped to think why these dozens of men did not need their ID cards anymore.
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