American Hostage Beheaded
Horrible. Rusty has the details . He says: “I have the video. The victim is Eugene Armstrong. I am sick. I am in tears. I am enraged. God, strike down these sick bastards!!! Lord, where is justice??”
I can’t type more now.
Update: I shouldn’t have looked. Its a glitzy video that opens with a soundtrack and graphics. Then these hooded men read a statement while a curtain flutters in the wind off to the right. Then they saw this man’s head off and place it on his chest. I know this isn’t about me but I feel like I was just in a bloody traffic accident. I’m faint and ready to throw up. A son, a husband, a father
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Ramblings Journal
and My Pet Jawa
and Wizbang
also Six Meat Buffet
Ok I had an emergency nap and am regaining some verbal capacity:
Blogs of War has a translation of the statement: the statement read before the murder: “Oh, you Christian dog Bush, stop your arrogance … the mujahideen will give America a taste of the degradation you have inflicted on the Iraqi people.”
Rooftop report says exactly what I was thinking before I passed out: “It consistently baffles and enrages me that the perpetrators of these crimes think they are doing God’s work. Disgusting.”
Big Dick: Well, those cowardly chickenshits did it.
BackCountry Conservative has a round up.
In Search of Utopia brings up the other two: “The fate of the two other hostages taken with him remains unknown, but there is little hope that they will not face the same fate.”
Right on Red quotes the Iraqi FM: “Iraq is on the front line of fighting these terrorists. And, God forbid, if Iraq is broken or the will of Iraq is broken, then London would be a target, Washington will be a target, Paris will be a target, Cairo will be a target, as we have seen in the past.” and points out to the press Zarqawi is not an Iraqi militant; he is a Jordanian terrorist.
Update: Now that I can stand again, I blame this horrible inhumane attack on the vile Salafi Zarqawi and all the beastly jihadiis around the world, not on all Muslims or all Iraqis. Zarqawi murders Iraqi Muslim civilians on a nearly daily basis.
Update: No mention in the Tehran Times. The Syria Times nothing. The Electronic Intifada which normally comments on Iraq has no story. The Arab News has a straight forward story outlining Zarqawis other crimes as well. They also noted “another group of militants freed 18 Iraqi soldiers after an appeal from Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.” The Lebanese Daily Star has the beheading as the lead and includes this: “More than 300 Iraqis have been killed in violence over the past 10 days, casting doubt on whether elections can go ahead in January as scheduled.”
