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Friday, July 25, 2003

the case for liberal bias 

Posted by Nick : 9:55 AM

Geez Reuters, is there any particular reason why you doubt that they actually *are* the bodies of Uday and Qusay?

Reuters: US Displays Bodies That Look Like Saddam's Sons

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
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