'Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range.' Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal. by Robert Booth (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results?CMP=twt_gu.)

'...Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, according to the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine...a 60-year-old man, Ibrahim Bilgen, was shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back. A 19-year-old, named as Fulkan Dogan, who also has US citizenship, was shot five times from less that 45cm, in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back. Two other men were shot four times, and five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back...'

'...in only one case was there a single bullet wound, to the forehead from a distant shot, while every other victim suffered multiple wounds. "All [the bullets] were intact. This is important in a forensic context. When a bullet strikes another place it comes into the body deformed. If it directly comes into the body, the bullet is all intact...all but one of the bullets retrieved from the bodies came from 9mm rounds. Of the other round...It was the first time we have seen this kind of material used in firearms. It was just a container including many types of pellets usually used in shotguns. It penetrated the head region in the temple and we found it intact in the brain...'

In related news, 'Israeli commando who shot six dead on ship may get 'medal of valour'' by James Hider and Alexander Christie-Miller

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7144448.ece

'...Six of the nine activists killed in Monday's raid on an aid convoy were shot by a single Israeli commando who is now being considered for a medal of valour...'

Words fail me.