None of you bothered to vote for or against adding my "wannabe" correspondent from London, so guess what? I'm adding him anyway. Here's his first dispatch:
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It now appears that the mortuary story is not a sign of past atrocities but just plain thoughtless incompetence by the Iraqi authorities in not promptly repatriating remains ex the war with Iran. It never seemed very likely that they would carefully place bones of executed victims in coffins, and where there was not much to place, in bags in coffins. This would have been a first in the catalogue of man's inhumanity to man. That there will be evidence in abundance of atrocities I do not doubt. I am just hoping that the incoming administration will ensure that journalists, spiritual leaders, politicians, et al, from the Arab world, France, Germany and the anti-war factions are put in the position that they have to tour the prisons and other sites - a la Belsen and Buchenwald when Germany fell - or shut up. I shall also be interested to see how al-Jazeera handles pictures of cheering crowds mobbing British and American soldiers on their entry into Iraq cities, if and when it happens.