Posted on 09/22/2004 3:59:37 PM PDT by PureSolace
"maybe we need to start decapping all our prisoners of war? and film it? and broadcast it?"
Maybe, or maybe we should just shoot them. They gotta be killed though, ASAP.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist group in Iraq has said it killed two female Italian hostages in a statement posted on an Internet site not often used by Iraqi militants.
The group, calling itself the Jihad Organisation, said it had killed the women because Italy had not obeyed its call to withdraw its forces from Iraq.
A group with a similar name, the Islamic Jihad Organisation, said on September 12 that it would kill the hostages in 24 hours if Italian troops did not leave Iraq.
"We in the Jihad Organisation in Iraq announce that God's verdict has been passed on the two Italian prisoners by slaughtering, after the Italian government headed by the vile (Prime Minister Silvio) Berlusconi did not listen to our one condition to withdraw from Iraq," the statement said.
"We warn the Italian government that we will continue to strike, and to strike every foreigner living in Iraq," said the statement, dated September 22.
It was not possible to authenticate the message.
A purported statement by the previously unknown Islamic Jihad Organisation had said earlier in the month: "We will extend our deadline 24 hours from the issue of this statement, after that if we don't see Italian soldiers withdrawing from Iraq we will implement execution".
That statement, which was followed by a tour of Gulf countries by Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to appeal for the hostages' release, appeared on another Web site which often carried statements which turned out to be false. That site is currently inaccessible.
Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, who worked on projects to help Iraqi children, were the first Western women to be kidnapped in Iraq, where anti-Western militants have seized and killed dozens of people since last year.
They, and two Iraqi colleagues, were seized on September 7 from a charity office where they worked in the heart of Baghdad.
You insult the President, the Administration professionals and the Military commanders. Profoundly.
Doesn't matter. Any old excuse will do for the jihadists.
Remember Israel offered the terrorists 97% of what they demanded, and they turned it down. They like killing.
Rest In Peace .
Press releases, after all, are much more effective than levelling Fallujah - which would result in bad PR.
bttt
This should come as no surprise. They shot children in the back in Russia. They deserve no mercy. We have the tools and the manpower, and sadly, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Innocents have already died in New York, PA., D.C., -- collateral damage. We're already a 'rogue' nation in the eyes of the cowards of this world, who call upon us time after time to pull their irons from the fire. Those overweening elitist Liberals who preach moral equivalency morning, noon, and night -- the Dan Rathers and Kerry's. Well, they're going down in defeat right before our eyes, and it's about time.
Really? I always thought it wasn't enough.
Their only sin was trying to help people. They are truly in heaven by the right Hand of God.
They should let the two Dr. Anthrax and Dr. Germ go, but first make sure they can never add two and two again without taking off their shoes.
Hopefully, we have a few tactical nukes that will do nicely.
Women and Russian schoolkids. Looking good, islamics, looking real good.
I don't understand these foreign terrorists. From what I understand most of the bastards doing this stuff aren't even Iraqi, but mostly Syrian, Palestinian and from other radical nations. Hopefully something is being done to put an end to this. We're still at war, we should treat out enemies as if we're still at war.
Usually I respond to a post like this with a prayer or some words of comfort and faith, but this one strikes a different chord with me and I am livid.
There are two sides to faith.
One side says pray for your enemies and relegate their judgement to him.
The reverse side of the coin is something soldiers and sailors have been told in this country for 200 years: God uses armies and people to execute divine judgement on the evil.
The judgement of Zarqawi and his evil actions is strictly the domain of God. The method of that judgement will be by men. I certainly hope that animal Zarqawi and his minions reap the rewards of their evil at the hands of armed American soldiers, and I hope it is soon before other innocents die.
I only wish I could be there to watch.
agree....but my heart goes out to those two girls..Im an old guy and old fashioned I guess
Italy should send a thousand more soldiers for each hostage killed. Same for every nation these scumbags try to blackmail.
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