Corpse Smuggling
The world is full of never ending surprises, though our surprise is often an everyday matter for others. This recent story from Iraq caught my attention.
Iraqi and U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the traffic of weapons and drugs across the country’s porous borders, but there is also an older and more surprising commodity being smuggled into Iraq — cadavers.
For centuries, Shiite Muslims from all over the world have sought to be buried in what might be the world’s largest cemetery, in the holy city of Najaf. During the past 30 years of rebellions, invasion and war with Iran, the traffic of the dead was halted. But it is now a big business once again.
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