[lbo-talk] Alan Dershowitz on "Mishandling bin Laden's Body" (WSJ)

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 10:23:22 PDT 2011


Jim Farmelant

Dershowitz is far from being my favorite guy, but in this piece he makes some telling criticisms of the Obama Administration's handling of the killing of OBL.

^^^^ CB: What do these criticism's tell us ?

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Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ------------------------------------ Mishandling bin Laden's Body

By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The president's decision to withhold photographs of the dead Osama bin Laden is only the last in a series of terrible mistakes in the handling of his body. Although there should be no doubt that bin Laden is actually dead, there are grave doubts as to the circumstances surrounding his death. Was he shot in cold blood? Was he shot in the back or in the front? Were his hands raised in surrender? Was he actively resisting?

Many of these doubts could have been resolved if bin Laden's body had been subjected to the usual investigatory techniques routinely employed in homicide cases. His body should have been subjected to an autopsy, to forensic testing by an experienced medical examiner, to extensive photographing of entrance and exit wounds, to paraffin testing for gun-powder residue, and to other such forensic examination.



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