June 2003 Muhammed Dura

Muhammed Dura

James Fallows, former chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and widely respected journalist wrote in a seminal article in the June 2003 issue of The Atlantic that,

“It now appears that the boy cannot have died in the way reported by most of the world’s media and fervently believed throughout the Islamic world. Whatever happened to him, he was not shot by the Israeli soldiers who were known to be involved in the day’s fighting ― or so I am convinced after spending a week in Israel talking with those examining the case.”

Fallows’ report, based heavily on Shahaf’s investigation, led to a February 2005 American Academy of Forensic Sciences invitation to write and present a paper, along with an award from Israel’s Media Watch and, presumably, to Phillipe Karsenty’s decision to publicly call on French 2 Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin and his boss at France 2, news production chief Arlette Chabot, to resign.

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/nahum-shahafs-relentless-muhammad-al-dura-dissent/