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| Video Shows Beheading of 3 Iraq Hostages |
| 2004-09-19 |
| A videotape posted by on a Web site Saturday showed the beheading of three hostages said to be members of an Iraqi Kurdish party, slain for cooperating with American forces, according to their Islamic militant captors. A statement with the video was signed by the Ansar al-Sunna Army, which in August released footage showing 12 Nepalese hostages being killed. The statement identified the hostages as three truck drivers who belong to the Kurdistan Democratic Party, captured in a roadblock near Taji, 15 miles north of Baghdad, as they were transporting military vehicles to an American base in Taji. The video shows three young men showing their identity cards. Seconds later, each has his throat slit. A man is seen cutting off each hostage's head. The heads are then seen placed on the backs of the victims. The "renegade military men, affiliated with the traitor Kurdistan Democratic Party" were beheaded, and their bodies were left on the road to Mosul "for them to be an example to others, and for us to revenge our women, children and elderly who die daily from American raids," the statement said. The Ansar al-Sunna Army has been accused in a number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces as well as on Kurds - including Feb. 1 bombings against Kurdhish political offices in the northern city of Irbil that killed 109 people. On Aug. 31, the group killed 12 Nepalese workers, releasing a video showing one of the hostages being beheaded and the remaining ones shot with an assault rifle. In the statement Saturday, Ansar al-Sunna Army said it has targeted Iraqi Kurdish parties because they have "sworn allegiance to the crusaders and fought and are still fighting Islam and its people." It accused them of protecting American forces in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, as well as near the Taji military base just north of the capital, and elsewhere. The statment also accused the leaders of Iraq's two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani of being servants of Israel. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Does anyone else get the feeling that this sort of ruthless, violent garbage is never going to end, ever? While thinking on this topic, I came to a stark realization last night. Regardless of the outcome in Iraq, Islamists will persist in terrorism, essentially forever. The Quranic edict to establish their beloved Caliphate will always be made to serve as a pretext for terrorism and aggression. I can envision no end to this political struggle disguised as a religion. There will forever be some faction of Taleban or al Qaeda inspired fanatics who will constantly insist that their's is the only pure version of Islam and how, in the absence of any capitulation, it must be installed by force. Islam has no central authority or doctrine, save the Quran. As we all have seen, its text can be interpreted nine different ways to Sunday. Just as clearly, there will always be those who shall not hesitate in using force of arms to impose their own vision of fundamentalism in the name of their religion. Calling upon Islam to reform itself is essentially useless. While certain portions of the faith may do so, there will nonetheless remain other sects or individuals who shall refuse such reinterpretation of doctrine and resort to violence in installing their own particular flavor of belief. The only glimmer of hope is that Islam itself must voluntarily begin a process of cleansing their ranks from within of all violent jihadist types. Every bit of evidence to date in no way supports any such expectation. Quite the opposite seems to be the case. A consistent undertone of tacit or even overt approval for 9-11 and the string of atrocities that have followed it is all that greets us. Islam's obsession with ideological supremacy attained by force if necessary must be their downfall. Should Islam prove incapable of understanding how substitution of persuasive argument over violent coercion is incumbent upon them, they must one and all be eradicated from this earth. Again, I see no indication of any intention to correct this virulent strain of thought that pervades the majority of Islam's adherents. Should they persist in maintaining this incompatible stance against all other global cultures, it must be their collective death knell. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-19 1:52:03 PM |
| #1 Beheading a Kurd? Oh, they're in for it now. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-09-19 1:18:05 PM |