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2005-04-05 Iraq-Jordan

Purported Al-Qaida in Iraq Video Shows Beheading of Iraqi National Guard Member

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Posted by Steve 2005-04-05 8:44:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It would be time for showing some beheadings of Al Quaidists while people in the background shout in Arabic "Bin Laden has a small p...s". BTW France has some used guillotines for sale.

Posted by JFM 2005-04-05 10:14:45 AM|| 2005-04-05 10:14:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 BTW France has some used guillotines for sale.

Why bother with that method? A nice, sharp sword and a basket to catch the head is good enough for the job.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-05 10:46:23 AM|| 2005-04-05 10:46:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Why bother with that method?

I never miss an occasion for promoting fine French technology. :-)

Posted by JFM 2005-04-05 11:14:31 AM|| 2005-04-05 11:14:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The reason Madame la Guillotine was invented is that such sword work takes real skill, and a good, sharp sword. Madame is simple, effective, and in the end more humane than the unending hacking at a partially severed neck that was common using the traditional method.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-05 11:35:31 AM|| 2005-04-05 11:35:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 One documented case of the headsman taking 23 whacks to get the job done. Ouch.

Posted by mojo 2005-04-05 12:52:26 PM|| 2005-04-05 12:52:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "It would be time for showing some beheadings of Al Quaidists...."

Please much slower and painful and public.

Posted by Ulinese Snens1134 2005-04-05 1:08:58 PM|| 2005-04-05 1:08:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 One documented case of the headsman taking 23 whacks to get the job done.
Hey! It's not as easy as it looks.

Posted by Lizzie B. 2005-04-05 1:36:10 PM|| 2005-04-05 1:36:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lizzie B. >>>you wacker you!

Posted by 40 2005-04-05 5:08:15 PM|| 2005-04-05 5:08:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like Al Qaeda has developed an addiction problem (how Western of them). Their addiction happens to be to painful, blood-spattered homicide. An irresistible desire to see the blood of humans being slaughtered makes them perfect candidates for an Islamic 12-step. Wonder how you make amends to a headless corpse.

May God comfort the victim's family. Islam won't.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-04-05 7:47:48 PM|| 2005-04-05 7:47:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The French didn't invent the Guillotine, they perfected the technology already in use (Halifax gibbet, for example). Joseph-Ignace Guillotin promoted its use as a "humane instrument".

Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-05 8:14:08 PM|| 2005-04-05 8:14:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 In Saudi I understand that relatives of the condemend who care, pay a fee to the headsman to whet his sword on gold, so the cut will be swift and sure.

Posted by toad 2005-04-05 8:50:23 PM|| 2005-04-05 8:50:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yep, the headsman gets his cut.

[**rimshot**]

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-05 10:23:00 PM|| 2005-04-05 10:23:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Perhaps Al-Q is looking for an Emmy Award to add to their Pulitzer :).

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-05 11:41:13 PM|| 2005-04-05 11:41:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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