SPECIAL ALERT: Zombies in Iraq?

Formerly classified State Department documents recently released by WikiLeaks hint at previously unknown experiments by Saddam Hussein on his own people with a substance known only as "Compound S".

A pre-war era intelligence report indicates that the deposed dictator attempted to use what is believed to be the solanum virus to infect citizens of his country, in an attempt to build an Iraqi army of zombies. No documents show proof of the success of the experiments, and both the United States and current Iraqi government are downplaying reports that "Compound S" was the solanum virus, claiming it was nothing more than a concentrated mustard gas that may have caused prolonged muscle spazms in victims.

Numerous reports have surfaced during the US-led occupation of Iraq that suggest the discovery of mass "zombie graves" throughout the war torn country by coalition forces. The exact number of these graves remains a mystery, however, it is estimated that ten graves, each containing thousands of corpses, were found in and around Hussein's Baghdad facilities alone. In each case, the graves consisted of two separate sections, one containing the headless bodies of victims and the other containing the victim's heads which show evidence of bullet wounds and, in some cases, blunt force trauma.

Research conducted by the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Society Outbreak Investigations Division (OID) has revealed that the graves were not all filled at one time, either. Each grave was used over a period of time, with anywhere from ten to fifty corpses being dumped at a time, over a period of 3 - 5 years. According to evidence collected by OID, two of the graves show signs of being in use right up until the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

At present, OID Investigators are trying to determine whether or not the Solanum virus was present in the remains of these mass graves, however, both the US military and Iraqi government are blocking efforts to do so. To date, access is denied to the remains by anyone other than military personnel with top security clearances. In some cases, it has been reported that the remains from as many as five of these graves have been incinerated after identification, and the ashes returned to family where possible.

All attempts at securing or testing the ashes of cremated victims has been met with hostility from government officials to the families themselves.