Reuters Sees Baghdad Bodies, Faces 'Rebuilt'

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030725/ts_nm/iraq_sons_journalists_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Officials from the U.S.-led administration in Iraq (news - web sites) showed journalists two corpses on Friday that Washington says it is sure are the bodies of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons.

U.S. officials said morticians had touched up the faces of Qusay and Uday to repair damage sustained in a gunbattle with U.S. troops on Tuesday in which they were killed. snip

"I've been shown the bodies and they do appear to be those of Uday and Qusay," Reuters correspondent Andrew Marshall said from an air-conditioned, tented U.S. military morgue at Baghdad's international airport.

A U.S. military official said they had undergone some post-mortem facial reconstruction -- standard practice they said, not an attempt to deceive the Iraqi people. There was no sign that either of them had committed suicide, they added. snip

"The two bodies have undergone facial reconstruction with morticians putty to make them resemble as closely as possible the faces of the brothers when they were alive," a U.S. military official said.

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[glarius]

1. Why did they not tell us yesterday the faces were "rebuilt?"

This administration never seems to get it right...When they released the first pictures yesterday they should have mentioned the "rebuilt" faces at that time...They are so damned dumb!!

[NNN0LHI]

2. Morticians can do some remarkable things

Sounds like they have been busy building these guys into what Junior wants them to look like? Wierd shit to say the least.

Don

[glarius]

3. If they were smart they would leave the faces alone and not leave

themselves open for suspicion....They are like the gang that can't shoot straight!

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Agreed.

It is very easy to be doign teh right things and still not do it right. WHen you are trying to lie, or do teh wrong thing, it is much more difficult to do it "right".

[seventhson]

6. These faces will self-destruct in 15 seconds

remember Mission impossible? It is probably Martin Landau and Ross Martin under those death masks.

[GregW]

5. I don't think yesterday's pics WERE rebuilt

They looked 'fresh' to me.

The bodies they showed the journos had some work done to them.

[JPace]

13. "they should have mentioned the "rebuilt" faces at that time"

This bush "regime" is crawling with power hungry ghouls
and control freaks. They all know that information equals
power and they automatically withhold the total truth about
almost everything. Its built into their characters, what
they forget is that constant use of this results in a loss
of trust by those who are left in the dark. People are
beginning to sense that they are being manipulated and will
start to pull back their support for *. We are seeing it in
the polls.

[hedda_foil]

7. They rebuilt their faces but didn't wash off the blood??????

Sounds like Jerry Bruckheimer is producing this show.

[Rose Siding]

9. "...unheard of in the Arab world."

NOBODY is producing this show! Of course the Iraqis would think they're being fooled. They never heard of using putty.

BushCo continues not to try to learn anything of the culture that might be of importance. (or anything else at all, for that matter)

[rog]

8. Now edited

Did you notice that the line you quoted has now been edited in the story above?

Original: "The two bodies have undergone facial reconstruction with morticians putty to make them resemble as closely as possible the faces of the brothers when they were alive," a U.S. military official said.

Now appears to be: A U.S. military official said "facial reconstruction" was used to repair wounds, particularly to the face of the elder son Uday, which had disfigured the bodies shown originally to the public in photographs taken by soldiers after the battle.

But the "you can make anyone look like anyone else" quote is still in there.

"You can make anyone look like anyone else," one U.S. official said, insisting the medical evidence was compelling.

.rog.

[UTUSN]

10. The Wingnuts Are Orgasming and Fundraising

It's not a matter of "convincing" anybody. The wingnuts are GETTING OFF to the nekkid bodies. The top tier of donors to Shrub will get a peek under the loin cloth.

The real questions were:

1) Let's see, there were a total of FOUR (4) firing back?

2) against a whole phalanx of forces armed complete with missiles on down?

3) and this was a "fierce battle" that lasted SIX (6) hours?

[qanda]

11. Yeah, they look great...

Considering they died from "being hit by a tow missile." Well, at least that was what the military first said had happened. Who knows?

[LynneSin]

12. What the F***!!!! Are we an advanced nation or a bunch of idiotic heathen

This story is an EMBARASSMENT to the United States, pulling medevil tactics of displaying the dead.

All that displaying will just encourage more to rebel against us.

Someone at the Pentagon deserves a whack upside the head with a giant 2x4.

[Cronus Protagonist]

14. The Reuters story is still intact

So you know the censorship is going on inside Yahoo! - here's the link:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3159781

But unlike grisly, blood spattered photographs published by the U.S. military earlier, the faces had been touched up and shaved to make them more closely resemble the brothers in life -- a U.S. official insisted the aim was not to deceive.

About 15 journalists saw two corpses laid out in a tented military morgue. They did look like the two brothers, whom U.S. troops said they killed in a raid in Mosul Tuesday.

The face of Uday, 39, had been repaired. The U.S. pictures showed wounds that officers said were sustained in the siege of a villa in the northern city, where he and his younger brother went down fighting an overwhelming force firing rockets.

"The two bodies have undergone facial reconstruction with morticians putty to make them resemble as closely as possible the faces of the brothers when they were alive," a U.S. military official said. He called it standard practice, although such post-mortem work is frowned on by most Muslims.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3159781


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