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U.S. Will Release Saddam Sonsâ Death Photos
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The United States will release photographs of Saddam Husseinâs sons taken after they were killed by American missiles as they resisted arrest in an effort to convince Iraqis they are truly dead. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in Washington on Wednesday the pictures would be made public "soon" but did not say how explicitly they would show Udayâs and Qusayâs fatal injuries. U.S. troops killed them in a raid in the city of Mosul Tuesday.
| Go ahead and show them. It's an old Iraqi tradition. A coup or two before Sammy took over, the new regime abused the corpse of the previous leader on live teevee for three days. By the time they finally cut to Gilligan's Island, everybody was convinced the poor guy was dead... |
Another U.S. official told Reuters that he had seen photographs in which the men were recognizable despite wounds. "They are pretty bad," the official said of pictures.
| If we don't show the gore, we'll be accused of doctoring their school pictures... |
Yet in the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where people have grown up with the official lies and manipulated media of the Saddam decades, people are still not convinced that the former ruling family is really gone — and as a result are looking for greater proof from Washington.
Posted by: 11A5S 2003-07-24 |
