US Invites Relatives to Claim Brothers' Bodies

[kskiska]

The United States authorities in Iraq were last night wrestling with the thorny problem of how to dispose of the bullet-riddled bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein after their "touched up" corpses were shown off to the world yesterday.

In stark contrast to the grisly pictures released by the US military on Thursday, the bodies shown to a small group of journalists in a makeshift morgue at Baghdad airport yesterday had been shaved and their faces reconstructed in an attempt to persuade a sceptical Iraqi public two of the most feared men in the country were really dead.

US officials, trying to grapple with the problem of Islamic custom which calls for burial as soon as possible after death, said the bodies would be stored in the refrigerated tent at the airport until a family member came forward to claim them. This is a not completely outlandish suggestion, considering the size of their extended family, many of whom are not on the coalition wanted list.

A British spokesman for the coalition provisional authority said they were still consulting Iraq's governing council and religious leaders about how best to preserve the corpses according to Muslim tradition, and no decision had been taken yet.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1006375,00.html

[w13rd0]

1. If Saddam came to claim the bodies...

...would they just pop him too? While coming to claim the bodies of his children? I mean, sure they could argue that it was justified, but as a PR move, if he wanted to make himself a martyr and sees no other way out...call the media, tell them he will be going in to claim the bodies...get it on live TV...

[shamanstar]

4. it would be a convenient

way to make people believe they have killed saddam. "he was shot while coming to claim the bodies of his two sons- want to see the constructed bloody corpse?"

[DUreader]

2. Anyone who shows up will be interrogated,

US pretending they don't know to whom it is appropriate to turn them over.

Pathetic Psyop

[PartyPooper]

3. Is the U.S. naive enough to believe any relatives will claim these bodies?

<"This is a not completely outlandish suggestion, considering the size of their extended family, many of whom are not on the coalition wanted list.">

Yeah, right!

:eyes:

[NYC]

5. "Step into my parlor," said the spider to the fly.

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