The bodies are evidence of a massacre carried out by Islamic State militants in June
2014.
TIKRIT, Iraq — Saddam
Hussein’s former palace complex here is seemingly idyllic, its gardens
lined with lush palm trees and bursts of bougainvillea. But at the heart
of the verdant compound, diggers are turning over the earth in search
of evidence from what could be one of Iraq’s worst atrocities in more
than a decade.