Friday
(0)I've heard and read some media pundits who after looking at the photos of the Hussein lads suggested one may have committed suicide. I cannot make a definitive judgement from a single angle and a not terribly good photograph... but I think not.
A bullet makes a small entry wound and a large exit wound. The photo shows a large hole in the right side of the head. If this were due to a bullet, the entry wound would be on the left. If it was a suicide, he held the pistol in his left hand.
Since I've never heard either of the two was a left hander, I will presume this was not the case. I'd bet on shrapnel from one of the missiles as the source of the wound.
Mehh...
He's dead now.
I honestly don't care if a badger tunneled up his arse and stole his kidneys.
Posted by asm at July 25, 2003 01:34 AM
Interesting to speculate. Was he a coward at the last minute and did he take his life to avoid capture? Couldn't this be determined via an autopsy?
I've enjoyed reading some of our media elite and followers wonder if we had the right to 'kill them in cold blood'. I actually saw someone state we had murdered them.
I must have missed one of the objectives of war. I thought if you were in a war zone and someone was shooting at you, the idea was to shoot back and *kill* those who were shooting at you. I guess not.
It's too bad we couldn't have taken them alive. I would have *loved* to hand these guys over to be tried by the very Iraqis they tortured. Probably if we had done that, we'd get blamed for mistreating them. The UN Human Rights Commission would probably issue a stern rebuke and demand they take charge of the trial.
Posted by Chris Josephson at July 25, 2003 02:25 AM
Believe it was either in his mouth or under his chin. Either one is equally acceptable.
Posted by inspire 28 at July 25, 2003 02:38 AM
If you're looking for something really scandalous...
it occurs to me that Uday doesn't look much like Saddam or Qusay..
I'd say he looks rather more like a certain tall european who spent a good deal of time in Baghdad. Particularly his nose.
That would explain a great many things.
Posted by Dishman at July 25, 2003 07:44 AM
Dishman,
Are you suggesting that Uday is the love child of Saddam and Chirac?! err... waitaminute...
Posted by asm at July 25, 2003 12:15 PM
asm:
I thought maybe Dishman was suggesting Uday bore a resemblance to George Galloway.
(What does Polly Toynbee look like, for that matter? :o)
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at July 25, 2003 02:06 PM
That's quite enough!
We'll have no bestiality or scandalous moral turpitude in this blog!
Unless you have pic's
Fred
Posted by Stop at July 25, 2003 06:20 PM
