BUSHCO's-Account of Al Qaeda Using Two Down Syndrome Women as Bombers Debunked

[kpete]

Files for Suicide Bombers Show No Down Syndrome

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html?ex=1361250000&en=8c331807e26df2d6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Government’s Account of Al Qaeda Using Two Down Syndrome Women as Bombers Debunked
Published 1, February 26, 2008 Bizarre , Military , Politics , Society

Remember the horrific accounts of how Al Qaeda used two women with Down Syndrome to carry out attacks killing roughly 100 people in Baghdad in February? It turns out that there is no evidence that they had any physical or mental ailments and may not have any connection to Al Qaeda. It turns out the the account of the Down syndrome bombers was traced to Iraqi officials who reportedly based their view on the appearance of the women’ heads - which had been severed in the blasts.

The U.S. military joined in the account of the use of disabled individuals shortly after the blast to show how low Al Qaeda would go. Maj. Gen. Jeffery W. Hammond indicated that the women were mentally disabled and did not know what they were doing. The military now admits that there is no evidence that the women were unwitting participants.

The irony is that you really do not have to make Al Qaeda look worse. Even without the use of disabled individuals, the organization is subhuman and need no improvement on the villainy scale. However, the story shows how hard military information specialists work to frame the conflict. A problem that we saw in the Tillman scandal in Afghanistan and other stories.

http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/26/governments-account-of-al-qaeda-using-two-down-syndrome-women-as-bombers-debunked/

[shain from kane]

1. "...the organization is subhuman..." Like the Huns and the Japs. And the Iraqi soldiers that

killed those babies in their incubators.

[dysfunctional press]

2. here's probably the the most important paragraph in the ny times story-

Worries about insurgents using mentally disabled people as bombers prompted the Iraqi government’s decision this week to begin enforcing a Saddam Hussein-era law to round up beggars and the mentally disabled. Iraqi officials said the mentally disabled would be sent to hospitals while beggars would be taken to the police, foster homes, juvenile institutions or their families.

well...isn't that nice, how their government is looking out for them...? :sarcasm: