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Originally posted by blah-uh
I find it hard to believe ethat these pictures are all of a sudden going to convince americans and the Iraqi people that they are really dead. These pictures could be anyone... The only thing that looks remotely convincing is that the one dude has a shaved head.
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Apparently you don't listen to the news or watch TV - These photos were accompanied by x-rays, dental records, detatils of Uday's surgery and exrays of the metal implants. Some people simply refuse to believe what ourt government says until it slaps them in the face - Ask the ugly ( and dead) brothers.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released pictures Thursday of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's much-feared sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein
The extremely graphic photographs of the dead brothers were distributed on CD-ROM in Baghdad, where many news wire services have reporters stationed. The pictures later were distributed to other news outlets.
The U.S. military hopes the photographs will convince fearful Iraqis that Uday and Qusay died in Tuesday's raid on a house in the northern city of Mosul.
Two of the photos show Uday, the older brother, with a thick beard and a severely bruised and bloodied face. He has a gash running from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth, and bruises over his forehead.
Qusay, depicted in two other photos, has bruises and blood marks on his eyes, and a beard. His mouth is open, his teeth are showing, and his face is far more intact than Uday's.
The pictures show the men from the chest up -- one on bloody white sheets and the other in what appears to be a body bag. The faces are caked with blood, the eyes are closed and the lids are darkly bruised. The brothers had never worn such thick beards, and may have been trying to disguise their identities as they spent three months in hiding from coalition forces.
U.S. officials also released photos of the brothers when they were alive for comparison, as well as X-rays of Uday -- who was hurt in the leg in an assassination attempt in the 1990s.
Senior defense officials told Fox News that the bodies were not repositioned in any way and that the pictures were not altered. U.S. officials are still awaiting official autopsy results.