A message on the blog run by the family of missing civilian contractor Jonathan Cote.
U.S. Officials visit Jon’s family today as a 6th body has been recovered in the Basra area of Southern Iraq
April 19, 2008
We were visited today by U.S. Officials today who told us that a 6th body has been recovered in the Basra area of Southern Iraq. The body will be flown to Dover Air Force Base just as the 5 other bodies of US Citizens recovered in March. There the body will be identified and an autopsy will be performed.
Jonathon Cote of Getzville, New York was kidnapped on November 16, 2006 with four other men from Crescent Security Group who have since been found dead. Jonathon Cote's severed finger was one of 5 delivered to the US military in Iraq.
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Iraq: Remains identified - 1 still missing
Bert Nussbaumer of Austria, Jonathan Cote still missing
Iraq: Remains of Three Bodies Found - Update
Paul Johnson-Reuben and Joshua Munns
Iraq: Remains of 2 Contractors Discovered
Ronald Withrow and John Roy Young
Iraq: 5 Years - 5 Hostages - 5 Fingers
Discovery of five fingers belonging to missing civilian contractors
Is it just me
or is there something strange about the way these recoveries are being made and the lack of information or details?
Assume the worse
I suspect what they are finding are badly decomposed 'remains' and not full bodies. If I remember correctly, the autopsy report of one of the men indicated the man had been beaten badly before being killed.
The severed fingers themselves were in a bad state of decomposing. So, I think the news is simply being polite.
I actually witnessed this kind of tidying up of reporting a long time ago. I was actually in a news room when the news wire reported Michelle Simpson's killing. The news wire reported the force of the blow from the knife was such that her head was almost severed. The news that night simply reported her throat had been slashed.
So, assume the worse.
Not popular to believe, but some Old Time News reporters
and editors did, as Susie indicates, try to report the facts but not bring unnecessary pain to families.