Kusar Aslam, who works for Kayhan, an Iranian paper regarded as the mouthpiece of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "validates" the Swedish blood libel. But Dr. Andrea Meyerhoff, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University calls Donald Bostrom's story "medically impossible."
YNet News picked up on Aslam's claims:
Aslam, who claims she was stationed in Gaza and the West Bank for 22 years said, "My personal experience verifies the report published by (Donald) Boström," referring to the Aftonbladet reporter who published the original article.
According to Aslam, some of the Palestinians were still alive when they were "kidnapped" by IDF soldiers.
"I personally witnessed Israeli soldiers and army vehicles snatching Palestinian bodies from emergency rooms," the Iranian reporter said. "In other instances I saw soldiers follow Palestinians to cemeteries with the intent of stealing bodies before they were buried."
Meyerhoff writes in The Local:
According to his account, Israeli soldiers shot the young guy in the chest, then in each leg, then once ‘in the stomach.’
I take this last to mean the abdomen, since it isn’t possible to see the individual organ called the stomach from the outside of the body.
A gunshot wound to the chest or abdomen is a serious injury because it can damage internal organs- either by interruption of the blood supply, which causes hemorrhage, or because it causes infection via perforation of the intestine and/or the introduction of a foreign body. A guy shot in both legs can’t go far. Why, if the goal is to steal organs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, would soldiers shoot an individual in both the chest and abdomen and risk damage to the valuable organs in these body cavities? Such organs are not usable for transplant.
The quality of the argument does not merit too much more ink. The writer of the Aftonbladet article made his most important contribution to our understanding of his work when he acknowledged that he’d not verified any of the claims he made.
Another doctor, Mazen Arafah, of Hebron told the Jerusalem Post that Bostrom's story didn't add up, saying organs removed from corpses might have some educational value in a medical school, but are useless for transplant.
Does Aslam really expect us to believe that she's validating a medical impossibility?
