[Peace-discuss] Beheader-in-Chief

[Morton K. Brussel]

Thanks, Carl.

Although I would not put anything beyond the insensitive and perhaps  
warped brain of  our President, I would not promulgate the evidence  
presented here as proof that Bush indeed called for a personal look  
at the severed head of Zawahiri . We need to be careful what we say,  
lest it be shown wrong or misleading.

--mkb

On Jul 2, 2006, at 10:45 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> [At the meeting tonight some surprise was expressed -- not to  put  
> too fine a point on it -- over a story I mentioned about our  
> Commander-in-Chief.  The source was Ron Suskind's book, "The One  
> Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies  
> Since 9/11." Time magazine's summary is below.  --CGE]
>
>
> Suskind reports new details on Delta Force's shipment of a hatbox- 
> sized container to Dulles Airport in Washington's Virginia suburbs  
> in mid-2002. The round metal box, Army green with "US GOVERNMENT"  
> emblazoned in yellow, purportedly contained the severed head of  
> Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy. He supposedly had been  
> killed in December 2001, and buried in an Afghan riverbed. With a  
> $25 million bounty on his head, Afghan tribal chiefs provided the  
> jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports,  
> still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container  
> finally was opened inside a room at Dulles, and its forehead had an  
> indentation, consistent with a lifetime of pressing one's head  
> against stone or dirt to highlight one's commitment to Allah. "If  
> it turns out to be Zawahiri's head, I hope you'll bring it here,"  
> Bush told his briefers — "half in jest," Suskind writes. But DNA  
> testing ultimately revealed the skull wasn't Zawahiri's. It was  
> shipped off to an FBI warehouse on Staten Island.
>
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