"JohnH" wrote in message

American officials said he had suffered no gunshot wounds,
trying to dispel suggestions that someone had delivered a coup de grâce at
the scene."

Why dispel those rumors at all?
I'd let them all think we stuffed a pork sausage up his ass and then took
his head off with a rusty knife.
In fact, he was alive long enough after we had him to do just that... pity
someone didn't.

-W (would have gladly donated my Italian sausage supply for a worthy cause)