Posted on 04/22/2005 6:40:18 PM PDT by blam
Pilot shot dead after surviving crash
By Oliver Poole in Baghdad
(Filed: 23/04/2005)
A civilian pilot who survived when his helicopter was shot down in Iraq was yesterday shown on video footage surrendering to gunmen only to be murdered as his killers declared: ''God is great!''
A wounded Lyubomir Kostov is murdered on camera
The Bulgarian-owned helicopter, the first civilian aircraft to be shot down in Iraq since the coalition invasion two years ago, was hit on Thursday by a missile as it carried 11 people from Baghdad to Tikrit.
All those on board, who included three Bulgarian crew members and six American and three Fijian security contractors working for an American company, were believed to have died in the crash.
But the grainy video posted on an Islamist website by a group identifying itself as the Islamic Army in Iraq indicated that one man had survived and was riddled with bullets after the gunmen's leader ordered: "Carry out God's verdict."
Mihail Mihailov, the manager of the Heli Air company in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, confirmed that the man was Lyubomir Kostov, one of two pilots of the Mi8 which was brought down 12 miles north of Baghdad.
The video shows the pilot of the helicopter, who has a badly bleeding head wound, limping away with his back to the gunmen. Something is said and he turns around.
The order is then given to open fire and the man is shot repeatedly while his killers cry: "God is great."
May God see to it that these murderers receive the roughest justice possible - in this life.
Muck all Fuslims.
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity…this is war.”
Anne Coulter, 12 September 2001
Three weeks ago I would have thought the statement above still somewhat extreme and inflammatory. However, after almost two years of studying Islam and debating some of its adherents I can only beg the day we heed Anne Coulter’s words. It is time for Americans and all freedom loving Westerners to recognize the subtle assault upon our values, our freedoms and democratic principles being waged by the corrupt, despotic forces of Islam. This is war.
The assault is truly subtle in the West. Most Westerners don’t understand the code words that Islam uses to disguise its Jihad against our way of life. Too few of us understand the Muslim doctrine of “Taqiyya” which enables them to do virtually anything, including the betrayal of their faith, as a ruse to infiltrate alien societies and further the march of Islam and the destruction of those who do not believe in their faith. Under Islam, any heinous act or crime can be justified in the name of Jihad. For too long we have ignored Islam as it quietly invaded our culture. Democracy and Western tolerance are anathema to them. Every Friday, in mosques all across the Western world, Imams rage against our values and incite hate for our way of life knowing all the time the weakest of their flock will find endorsement in their words to exact violence against us and our children. Then, begging the lie that Islam is a religion of peace the Imams calmly respond to the victims’ questions of why this could happen with pleadings of innocence and our failure to see Islam for the truly peaceful religion it is. They portray Muslims as the victims of cultural misunderstanding while ignoring the bankruptcy of a twisted doctrine that justifies spilling the blood of innocents. It is all a lie that works into their strategy, carefully cultivated since the early 20th century by the Muslim Brotherhood, to use our own freedoms and tolerance to destroy us. By creating fear or reluctance to challenge them with the truth, they slowly but surely destroy our resolve and rob us of our most precious freedom…freedom of speech. When that is taken from us, all will be lost. It is time to fight back.
Yesterday the European Parliament banned Theo van Gogh’s film ‘Submission’ (EP bans screening of 'Submission' ) in a response to the subtle but always present intimidation against exposing Islam for what it truly is, a medieval, barbaric and violent cult that seeks to impose despotic tyranny over all the globe, sanctions the murder of non-believers, legitimizes theft of infidels’ property and relegates women and the ‘tolerated’ dhimmi to roles of subservience under Muslim masters. Europe may be lost, but we aren’t. Three weeks ago the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization descended from the Muslim Brotherhood, boldly claimed victory in forcing the National Review to cease advertising two books that challenged the politically correct myth of Islam that we are being brainwashed with today. I immediately ordered my copies of the books they so much want to have us avoid reading. If we allow this subversion to continue we will not long survive the disease that has already infected Europe. It is time to fight back against CAIR and all other Muslim organizations that would use legal slight of hand and our democratic values to destroy us. It is time for us to do the same to them.
We must challenge them in the streets. We must challenge them in the press. We must challenge them in the courts. We must challenge them at the gates and doors of their mosques. We must challenge them in the schools and the school boards. We must challenge them in the minds of their children. We must expose their moral corruption to the whole world and loudly proclaim the truth of Muhammad’s lecherous and criminal destruction of freedom within the Arab world. We must assault Islam with the same tools Christianity has been assaulted with the last 500 years. We must make them understand there is no room in our culture and civilization for their brand of fascist intolerance. If their faith cannot survive as Christianity has survived the assaults launched against it without resorting to violence and intimidation we must be prepared to fight…to invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
This is war and we will not have won until we can freely and openly carry a Bible or any other non-Muslim sacred text into Saudi Arabia and worship freely there and in Egypt, Iran, Sudan, and all other so-called Muslim countries, the God of our choosing, without fear of being murdered or persecuted. Any institution that would deny us that basic human right cannot be a religion as Islam claims it is but nothing more than a despotic ideological and political dogma no different from fascism or communism. We must recognize Islam for what it is and fight to either change or destroy it. Until Muslims all over the world and their brood states grant to all people the human rights they so insidiously train their followers to demand from us our war with Islam will not end. We must demonstrate our tolerance does not extend to acceptance of the intolerance that Islam demands of its followers. That would be like playing poker against our own money and we will surely lose. It is a war we must win for the sake of our children, our wives, our daughters and our freedoms.
And, Katie Couric, since you can't marry Moussaoui, maybe you want to hook up with these [expletive deleted].
I saw Charlie Daniels on Hannity and Colmes last night--
he had just gotten back from doing shows in Iraq and Afghanistan and was asked if they had any "close calls"--
He said one night the were flying into Baghdad in a helicopter and they started taking fire from the ground but that even though there were 3 gunners on board the helicopter, they were flying over a densly populated area of Baghdad and couldn't return fire...
He said the pilot just kind "weaved himself around" to try to keep from getting hit---which he succeeded in, that time.
No bias in the press here...
Ogrish has the unedited video if anyone wants to check it out. Made me sick with anger.
Which is why you won't see them ANYWHERE in the MSM---and yet we had to endure a MONTH of Abu-Grahib protographs making the nightly rotation.
Fifth column BUMP
Awful, awful. I just saw this dear man on the news minutes ago.
What a horror to survive that crash and to be murdered.
"I'm with ya, there are times like this that I wish I could walk into the TV screen with a shotgun and send these perps to there eternal punishment."
To think that our government, more or less, had a policy of appeasement to these folks from the Bobby Kennedy assassination (when I figure this war started) until 9/11 (when we got serious).....
President Bush was so wonderful to call these 'people' "thugs and cowards". I would not dare call them animals. Even a blood-lust animal kills to satisfy a real instinct.
The "religion of peace strikes again". "Ala's snack bar" opens at 9.
I saw the Orgish video. Where the Jihadist filth murders the pilot. Made me think that a glassed Mecca can't come soon enough.
Bastards. They'll get theirs soon enough.
Somehow, these videos make it into the hands of people who can distribute them. When will we start following the trail backward? Keep an eye of the folks who distribute the videos so that we can identify couriers. Then, follow the couriers to the ghoulish mother truckers who perptrate the affronts to basic humanity. Once the perps are located, dispatch them in a manner that sends a message.
I recall reading John masters describe how tribes in the Kashmir area would dispatch someone to send such a message. The soon-to-be-departed was staked-out, spread eagle, on the ground. Next, a local woman would urinate in the mouth of the perp. After other women relieved themsleves on the person, the execution began. In that region, female urine was a double whammy because 1) urine is considered ritually "unclean" and 2) it came from women (and we know the low value that these bungholes place on women).
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