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Baghdad (AFP) April 20, 2011 Iraq has formed a committee to investigate the fate of people missing since the 2003 US-led invasion, a security official said on Wednesday. Baghdad security spokesman Qassim Atta said that, starting Sunday, the committee will start accepting enquiries from families with missing relatives. "The committee will try to quickly investigate the fate of missing persons," he told a news conference. The committee comprises members of the Judicial Council and the ministries of justice, interior, human rights, national security and intelligence. Atta added that the committee would register reports from families of the missing in each province, starting in Baghdad and ending in the autonomous Kurdish north. "The committee will finish its work within 30 days," he said. There are no official numbers for Iraqis missing in the aftermath of the invasion, which triggered a vicious sectarian conflict and an Al-Qaeda insurgency. Tens of thousands were killed or kidnapped at the height of the violence in 2006 and 2007. Among those whose fate remains unknown is Salah Jali, an administrator with Agence France-Presse who has been missing since April 2006. In April 2009, the head of the Baghdad morgue Dr Munjed al-Rezali told AFP that only one-third of the more than 30,000 bodies received at the mortuary since 2006 had been identified.
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