[Peace-discuss] Beheader-in-Chief

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, it says he did, Mort:

"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.


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> 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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