Abu Salim Hospital Imagery - Catalog

June 15, 2012 
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This post will gather all visual references to see what clues exist ... along the way, some analysis will be included in a seaperate post.

Satellite imagery and its clues Google maps link for Abu Salim hospital. Below is the cool graphic I made from it, with areas of interest labeled-A-F. A and B are further established by other imagery listed below. The other areas not so much, if at all. Special emphasis on looking for stray bodies - reporters were shown about 80 of them, nearly all black men. There should be more caucasian casualties as well, and reports of 200 bodies or more total. If the satellite imagery shows any of these, that would be interesting. It might - see areas D and F. 
Area A = The northwest out-building, with strange black doors (see PB19) in front of which app. 20 bodies were piled. Satellite image taken after body removal.
B = front loading area and northwest drive, where many empty gurneys were left after body removal. At least 57 are visible, with others perhaps still underneath the covered promenade. 
C = Apparently two gurneys, empty. Perhaps these were two "high-value" patients rolled out a side door and driven off for special treatment, leaving their beds behind 
D = A whole lot of something - possibly garbage/debris, possibly bodies the media wasn't taken to. 
E = Surrounding street, southwest corner - of possible interest, something messy happened on the street back here. 
F = A back loading area, quite possibly usually used for garbage pick-up. The apparent garbage bags piled here are of the scale to be human bodies, at least 25 of them if so. 


Interior locations will be placed as soon as we get hold of a reliable floor plan of the place. Not expecting that. 

Videos For a pretty comprehensive list, I thank Petri and his Abu Salim hospital playlist at Youtube. Here are most of them, if not all: 
[VAA]"In the area of ​​Abu Salim, dozens of bodies in front of and behind the... في منطقة بوسليم، عشرات الجثث امام وخلف المستشفى by alaantube 
[VBS] (new link when available) 
 [VC1]Bodies abandoned in Tripoli hospital by ikon589 (CNN video) 
[VC2]Grim face of war in Libya by ikon589 (CNN video) 
[VCT] CTV, Canada (load third video down on the right) 
[VE1] Parents find missing boy in Abu Salim by Euronews 
[VE2] Tripoli hospitals full of wounded and almost out of medical supplies by bonanza91v

[VF1] Dozens of corpses lie abandoned in Tripoli hospital by AFP

[VF2] Tripoli hospital horror as patients die untreated

[VF3] 80 cadáveres abandonados en hospital de Trípoli by afpes 

[VIT] Battle for Tripoli rages on as hundreds of bodies found by itnnews

[VJ1]Trauma at Abu Salim hospital by AlJazeeraEnglish 

[VJ2]1Bodies found in Tripoli hospital by AlJazeeraEnglish 

[VLD] A Massacre at Abu Salim Trauma Hospital [graphic] by LockerbieDivide

[VR1] Bodies pile up in Tripoli by ReutersVideo

[VRT] RT Spanish

[VS1] Libya Conflict: Hundreds of dead bodies found in Tripoli hospital by skynews 9,772 views

Photographs

Alfred de Montesquiou, Getty Images, Aug.26.

[AM1] Black man wheeled out, close-up on face

[AM2] Bodies in loading area outside

[AM5] Six bodies, deodorizer

[AM6] Pile outside, close-up on one's face

[AM7] pile outside

[AM8] pile, close-up

Bejamin Lowy, Getty Images, Aug. 27

[BL1] Bloody gurney, elevators
[BL2] Basement morgue, five bodies
[BL3] Basement, a hand

[BL5] blood and a bottle of blood !?!
[BL6] three bodies on gurneys, outside
[BL7] Pile ouside, lime-covered
[BL8] pile outside
[BL9] Evacuee
[BL10]Cleanup -blood

Bruno Stevens
Tripoli, Libya, August 26, 2011.About 100 bodies are recovered in Abu Salim Hospital before being transfered to a functionning morgue in another Tripoli hospital. Details of what happened are unclear, but it seems most were wounded Khaddafi soldiers who were later executed on their hospital beds in what constitutes a massive war crime."
[BS1] Gurneys outside, cat
[BS2]executed man in the left bed (bottle of blood room)
[BS3]same room
[BS4]same room
[BS5] same room, detail on left bed, shot-through pillow
[BS6] same bed wheeled out, more bullet track marks
[BS7] patient in right bed uncovered
[BS8] same
[BS9] same outside, ID card shown
[BS10] outside, covered entryway, worker

[BS11] bodies in the entryway, lime-covered

[BS12] same

[BS13]same
[BS14]same
[BS15] same
[BS16]same
[BS17]same
[BS18]same
[BS19]same
[BS20]same, with bodies piled on a truck now
  [BS21] same
[BS21] doctors discussing a body, outside
[BS22] black victim outside, being uncovered
[BS23] same man inside, being wheeled out [BS24] Inside, dead man, light-skinned (torture signs?)
[BS25] inside, rolling [BS26]sick ward, dark, half emptied, one body close-up
[BS27]basement morgue, Aug. 27
[BS28] basement morgue, Aug. 27 [BS29] blood cleanup 1
[BS30] blood cleanup 2
Daniel Berehulak [DB1]Bodies on gurneys, loading area [DB2]same [DB3] same [BD4] same

[DB5] same with fighter

David Enders/MCT

[DE1] Body removal, outside

Francois Mori

[FM1] Sick ward, beheaded body

Giulio Petrocco, AP via Scanpix

[GP1] basement morgue,low angle [GP2] bloody gurneys, late PM Aug 26 [GP3] body in bed [GP4] unhappy corpse wheeled out [GP5] Basement morgue, arm detail
Geoff Pugh  [GU1]pile, Aug. 26
Heidi Levine

[HL1] pile, powdered

Jerome Sessini, Getty Images, Aug. 26

[JS1] Body outside, gurney

[JS2] Body outside, gurney

[JS3] Sick ward, re-arranged

[JS6] pile outside, not powdered

Patrick Baz, Getty Images, Aug. 26:

[PB1] Evacuees

[PB2] Evacuees

[PB3] Evacuees

[PB4] Evacuees

[PB5] Sick ward bodies, beheaded man visible

[PB6] Same

[PB7] Same

[PB8] Same

[PB9] Basement morgue, six bodies

[PB10] basement morgue, 9 bodies

[PB11] same, 3 bodies

[PB12] Body outside, loading area

[PB13] pile outside

[PB14] pile outside

[PB15] Pile outside, close-up

[PB16] Pile outside, girl walks by

[PB17] same

[PB18] others walk by

[PB19] Girl and gurneys

Ron Haviv, Corbis Images

[RH1] body in a bed, face removed (skeleton - possibly by an animal - see also unknown, below)

"The decaying remains of a body are seen in a hospital where numerous bodies were found abandoned after what appeared to be execution style killings, Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 27, 2011."

[RH2] Bloody gurneys

[RH3] Bottle of blood

Seamus Murphy, Corbis Images, Aug. 26 

[SM1] Dr. Salem Qasr

[SM2] pile outside

[SM3] covered body, entryway

[SM4] bound body, NW corner

[SM5] same body,side view

Teun Voeten/Panos Pictures /Felix Features, Aug. 27

[TV1] bottle of blood

[TV2] bottle of blood

[TV3] clean-up, Black men

[TV3] loading area

[TV4] loading area

[TV5] basement morgue

[TV6] gurneys outside

[TV7] pile outside

[TV8] pile, unusual angle

[TV9] body #1 close-up

Youssef Boudlal, Reuters, via Scanpix

[YB1] Pile outside

[YB2] Blood spatters

[YB3] indistinct body, outside

Yuri Kozyrev, Noor Images/Time
[YK1] pile outside, powdered
Unknown, Chinese page:
[UC1] Fuller-body view of the skeleton-face victim, well-decayed, left out in the sun for days before coming here. Skin and hair remnants suggest caucasian.