In my constant cyber-travels and research I've come across some frightening stuff. Lately, the rumour mills are running hot about whether some of the hostage executions in Iraq are genuine. The reason is that there is growing concern about who is actually behind the "executions".
I've seen the grisly video of Eugene Armstrong and, while it looks real to me, I'm no expert in how blood is meant to exit a knife wound to the neck. The comments in the above articles do make you think and the similarities between Abu Grahib prison and the hostage's location may be more than coincidental.
If you are not convinced that any of this could be faked, here's some proof
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I will keep his (I'm sure it was a male) comment published as a reminder that freedom of speech is an important civil right.
Unbelievable...
ReplyDeleteYou talk of free speech out of one side of your mouth and delete comments out of the other.
Classic hypocrite..
You are truly a fool. I can sit in my yard and detonate a bomb. That doesn't mean there aren't people being murdered by terrorists in Iraq. If they were fake (as your last link implies), why do we keep finding bodies? Or are they faked, too. Or maybe, in your deluded mind, Iraq doesn't really exist, either.
ReplyDeleteIf John Kerry wins the election which is highly unlikely now. I was going to move to Australia. I thought this was a country who didn't kiss ass. After seeing your sorry ass web site where you lie through your teeth. You must be a liberal Aussie Dummycrat. You enjoy the freedoms that allow you to lie and fabricate stories like this. My only hope is what goes around comes around. Constant lying catches up even to the best of Liars aka Bill Clinton, Dan Rather. Can I buy you a ticket to Iraq?
ReplyDeleteYou present some interesting ideas. However, you confuse me with this: "Some of the posts in this blog are not necessarily indicative of my own views. So please be aware to NOT shoot the messenger!"
ReplyDeleteWhen you say something like this, you're doin' a typical Democratic move: finding a way to get the blame off of you. Whose views are you posting on your blog if not your own?
Anyway, I've seen three of the videos (that I can remember). I have no doubt in my mind that these are real.
But conspiracy theories entertain me, so please, go ahead.
I will allow that it is certainly possible to fake beheadings and make them look real. The poor quality of the video would help. However, there is a certain matter of headless corpses that keep popping up afterwards.
ReplyDeleteWhat is incomprehesible to me are well-educated, pampered, and privileged Western professionals such as yourself who prefer the word of murdering dictators like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro , or terrorist dirtbags like Yassir Arafat or Shamil Basayev to that of the democratically elected leader of the United States.
Life under the regimes of any of these so-called "leaders" would give you a rude awakening as to how the world really works
the reason why innocents die, has nothing to do with us. We didnt start the war to cause 9-11. They came at us first, because they stand against anything non-muslim. Your eyes are made of wood. Can't you see the obvious?
ReplyDeleteI'm so very tired of the impulse to shift accountablility. There's only one place to put the blame: on the thugs who captured him, and on the one who held the knife.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have growing concerns about the "person" that would call AlJazeera a trusty news source.
You're a ghoul. If you want to know if Mr. Armstrong was really beheaded, why don't you drop a line to his grieving family. I'm sure they'd love to set you straight.
You seriously need to adjust your tin-foil hat.
ReplyDeleteLet's assume for a second that the video is fake - how do you explain the dead headless bodies?
Has living in Perth and seeing too much sun addled your brain? I have a friend who has just returned from Basra, and believe me these murders (to call tem executions legitimises them)are real and are hated by the Iraqis as much as anyone in the West, apart from maybe you !!!
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I will keep his (I'm sure it was a male) comment published as a reminder that freedom of speech is an important civil right.
ReplyDeleteIf freedom of speech were so important to you, you wouldn't engage in the implicit intimidation that posting their IP and ISP entails.
My views are unashamedly those of a liberal democrat in the true sense of their meaning. I oppose conservatism, nationalism, fascism and religious right-wing fanatacism.
Fascism is a leftist doctrine, crafted my Mussolini - a Marxist purist.
Doug B.
Interesting chain of thought displayed here. Puts me in mind of C3PO. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteScrew these righties. If they have a point, they sure are hiding it in name-calling and childish antics. All you said was that you have reservations, right? How dare you question something! Oh no!!
ReplyDeleteAnd, by the way, fascism is NOT a leftist doctrine. Indeed, it is the extreme right wing. Fascism involves worship of the state and copropate control of power--two tenets of conservatism. The reason the Nazi Party was known as the National Socialist German Workers Party was so that its leaders (pre-Hitler, I believe) could put a friendlier face on what they were doing.
Despite what this coordinated effort to discredit you might say, you are doing good work, if for no other reason than to question what we hear each day.
I find it interesting how you counter my explanation of the use of the word "socialist" in the NSGWP (Nazi Party) with a reminder that the word "socialist" is in the name. I know that! Now how about addressing WHY it's in there?
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