Reply #10: That's a good question.

[drm604]

Why is someone willing to pay $600 for the death of a paraplegic? What possible threat is a paraplegic to anyone? Why single out hospital patients? The only reason I can see for it is to increase tensions between Shia and Sunni by making it look like Shia are committing despicable acts.

How do we know this is even true? Remember the Kuwaiti incubator stories? Someone could be manufacturing these stories to increase tensions between Shia and Sunni. Some of this story seems too convenient and some doesn't even make sense.

For example, the story about the family hiding the patient and refusing to hand him over. Who were they refusing to hand him over to on the first day? It doesn't say. And if the intent is simply to kill Sunnis then why didn't they take the family? And how was it that the very next day "army members" were able to find him and take him away "to another hospital". Where was the family this time? Did they hand him over under threat of force? Surely if there was some kind of violent confrontation the story would mention that, wouldn't it? Sure the story is possible, but it doesn't quite ring true to me. If you're trying to pass off a lie, you provide as few details as possible to lessen the chance of exposure. This story leaves out important details.

What about the story about the paramedic showing the phial of medicine to the doctor and confessing that he couldn't go through with the crime? Sure it's possible, but doesn't it sound like something from a bad Hollywood movie?

And all of this is being provided by people with protected names via emails sent through intermediaries. Those are reasonable precautions and could be true, but they also conveniently remove any verifiability.

I keep thinking of the non-existent Kuwaiti babies being removed from the non-existent incubators.