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2004-10-11 Britain

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Posted by mrp 2004-10-11 8:43:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Iâd written about Kenneth Bigley, seized with two American colleagues but unlike them not beheaded immediately. Instead, sensing that they could exploit potential differences within âthe coalition of the willingâ, for three weeks the Islamists played a cat-and-mouse game with Mr Bigleyâs life, in which Fleet Street, the British public, governments in London and Dublin and Islamic lobby groups in the United Kingdom were far too willing to participate. As I always say, in this war the point is not whether youâre sad about the dead people, but what youâre prepared to do about it. What âBritainâ â from Ken Bigleyâs brother to the Foreign Secretary â did was make it more likely that other infidels will meet his fate."

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-11 10:35:44 PM|| 2004-10-11 10:35:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The game worked fine with Arroyo and the Filipinos, so they gave it a shot.

"Paul Bigley can be forgiven his clumsiness: heâs a freelancer winging it. But the feelers put out by the Foreign Office to Ken Bigleyâs captors are more disturbing: by definition, they confer respectability on the head-hackers and increase the likelihood that Britons and other infidels will be seized and decapitated in the future. The United Kingdom, like the government of the Philippines when it allegedly paid a ransom for the release of its Iraqi hostages, is thus assisting in the mainstreaming of jihad."

The beginning of the end of the UK lies within this paragraph.

Posted by .com 2004-10-11 10:44:30 PM|| 2004-10-11 10:44:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Mark.Steyn.Author.Awesome.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-10-11 11:00:21 PM|| 2004-10-11 11:00:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If youâre kidnapped, accept youâre unlikely to survive, say âIâll show you how an Englishman diesâ, and wreck the video. If they want you to confess youâre a spy, make a little mischief: there are jihadi from Britain, Italy, France, Canada and other western nations all over Iraq â so say yes, youâre an MI6 agent, and so are those Muslims from Tipton and Luton who recently joined the al-Qaeda cells in Samarra and Ramadi. As Churchill recommended in a less timorous Britain: You can always take one with you.

{He he he ...}

Yeah all them boys from Dearborn and Buffalo hangin' out in Fallujah workin' with me & the CIA...

Allah akhbar, baby...

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-11 11:15:58 PM|| 2004-10-11 11:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It isn't pretty, but he's absolutely right.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-11 11:16:22 PM|| 2004-10-11 11:16:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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