Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?

[UDawg]

I wonder about this. I first heard this on Michael Medved's show.
I am just posting this for a conversation piece.

Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/06/fallows.htm)

Here is back ground on James Fallows.

James Fallows (http://www.jamesfallows.com/index.htm)

He is a Democrat, infact he wrote speaches for the Carter administration. He is far from the Right side of the political side of the isle.


Do try go keep this from a hate Israel/Palestine thread. ;) Treat it as conspiracy thread.

[vampireuk]

I place the blame on MikeC, his stories about baseball seem a bit too convinient to me :eek2::D

[UDawg]

lol!

So what did you think about the article? I haven't read it yet. I will when I get home.

[Sazar]

I have only a couple of issues with his account...

no doubt he has spent some serious time and effort putting together his version of events.. BUT... I have seen newsweek and time photographs and other european publications (this was when I was in the seychelles... and time/newsweek/wall street journal were the only american publications available)

and there were different shots off the kid and his fater.. I think either newsweek or time had THEIR photos from a couple of different vantage points and the time frame did not appear changed per what the article by fallows claims...

ergo... I cannot read his entire account and say that the boy did not die by the means that have been stated...

I am sure there are exagerations and what not for many other events that occur... and his ambulance and other story is kewl... and does underscore that point...

however... seeing the photos that I have from the different vantage points that I did... I cannot agree with his assertion that perhaps the boy was not killed in the manner suspected...

this does not mean israel is the guilty party by any means btw... he could just as easily have come in the cross fire and been injured/killed by palestinian bullets... but he is a very unfortunate victim of circumstance...

also this was the first such account of the medical examination I have read...

[bknblk]

Some interesting points are made in the article. I particularly love the one where the supposedly injured man re-emerges from the ambulance moments later. I am not totaly convinced by the evidence put forth, but it does make one think.

[UDawg]

The video is here. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/25/world/main244165.shtml)

Notice you NEVER see the actual hit on the boy. The camera swings up and you can't see anything. I am not sure but this does give one pause on this story. I just thought it would be interesting to discuss.