I’m not buying this little nugget to the story Andrew Sullivan linked to Sunday:
The doctors who conducted the post mortem said the bodies of the terrorists were beyond recognition. “Their faces were beyond recognition.”
There was no way of identifying them,” he said. Asked how, if this is the case, they knew the bodies were indeed those of the terrorists, he said: “The security forces that brought the bodies told us that those were the bodies of the terrorists,” he said, adding there was no other way they could have identified the bodies.
Maybe I have watched too much television, but when a body is beyond recognition it sure makes it hard to really know if the person being buried is really the bad guy. It just wouldn’t surprise me to learn years from now that they aren’t dead and are or were tortured American style. It’s pretty scarey scenario really. As far as the world knows, they are dead, but you wouldn’t recognize them.
“Here you go, your dead terrorists”
“We don’t recognize them”
“yep, what a shame, you’ll just have to trust us“