Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? - Magazine - The Atlantic

Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? - Magazine - The Atlantic: The image of a boy shot dead in his helpless father's arms during an Israeli confrontation with Palestinians has become the Piet�of the Arab world. Now a number of Israeli researchers are presenting persuasive evidence that the fatal shots could not have come from the Israeli soldiers known to have been involved in the confrontation. The evidence will not change Arab minds—but the episode offers an object lesson in the incendiary power of an icon