Boy hangs himself 'like Saddam'

news24.com ^ | 1/1/07

[FreedomCalls]

I guess he was in such a hurry to meet those 72 virgins he forgot about the bomb and focused on the suicide part. We need to encourage more of this kind of Islamic terrorist.

Dude, he was a 9-year old kid! Calling a 9-year old kid a "terrorist" is damned close to being clinically insane.

[indcons]

LOL. I second that motion.

[indcons]

I get your point but it is not uncommon to see 9-year old kids participating in terrorist drills in Islamic camps around the world (and most notably, in Israel).

[indcons]

I don't see why "children" would be watching the news. If they are old enough to watch the news and like it, they probably have the maturity to see and understand what's on TV.

[decal]

"Boy hangs himself 'like Saddam'"

All he needed was one of these...

[FreedomCalls]

I get your point but it is not uncommon to see 9-year old kids participating in terrorist drills in Islamic camps around the world (and most notably, in Israel).

That is true and if this were one of those kids killed in that situation, you would be accurate. But this was a kid playing. American kids have probably hanged themselves acting out scenes from old western movies too. This was a tragedy not a terrorist in training and a perfect example of why a parent needs to monitor what children watch on TV.

[streetpreacher]

Yeah, I love it when 9-year-olds die...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I don't.

[Bonaparte]

"Can't help but wonder if the parents were gushing to the kids what a heroic martyr Saddam was as they watched the clips and planted the seed that the kids should be like Saddam."

Bingo! The boy made it to 9 which means he didn't imitate all the other potentially deadly stunts he's seen on TV. So why did he imitate it this time? I think you're right on the money.

[rawcatslyentist]

These two were all worried about a few molecules of fecal material getting on their toothbrushes when they flushed. LOL

[supremedoctrine]

Blame it on MadPakistaniTV.

[editdude]

Just registered...been lurking at DU for awhile trying to learn the ways of the enemy. While they mock the FR responses to this story, they post some of the most hateful and vitriolic trash about our President that I've ever read in my life. It's tragic that this child died. I wish the parents had been able to stop this. I guess my frusration is showing with the lunatics at DU.

[packrat35]

You mean like these kids.

Don't judge other societys by our standards lest you want to be disappointed.

[garylmoore]

Another thing - showing it also scotches any rumors that Hussein is still alive (it never happened, a dummy was used, etc). No need to depend on eyewitnesses.

But what ever happened to that look-alike that he used to use?

[rfp1234]

--Commentators and the media across Europe had expressed shock and unease on Sunday at graphic television pictures showing the last moments of Hussein just before his execution.--

Most likely the same jerks who were splashing Abu Ghraib pics all over the place in 2004, underreporting Zarqawi's beheadings of prisoners, and hailing Fat B@$tard Moore as a genius who showed the world what a great peaceful place Saddamist Iraq was.

[rfp1234]

--Commentators and the media across Europe had expressed shock and unease on Sunday at graphic television pictures showing the last moments of Hussein just before his execution. --

Were these paragons of morality equally outraged at that CNN video, of Iraqi terrorist snipers killing a U.S. soldier? And did they show any clips of Saddam's own atrocities, like FoxNews was doing on execution day?

[Rastus]

Weren't the photos of Mussolini's crushed skull published in newspapers back during WWII?

That is a frozen image of something even more graphic (the crowd kicked his head in after hanging).

Mubashar's great-grandfather saw the picture of Mussolini's crushed skull and put his own head in a hydraulic press.

[pandoraou812]

Children can be terrorists too. We have young boys that are more familiar with a gun than with school." Children in Afghanistan "have been raised in a highly militarized 'kalishnikov culture;' in schools both inside the country and refugee camps, textbooks and teaching methods have used images of tanks, guns and bullets in mathematics and reading classes." But pictures in books are not the only kind of violence these children witness. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?documentid=574&programID=21&from_page=../friendlyversion/printversion.cfm
......Groups such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have pulled children into the terrorism game. More than 30 suicide bombings since 2000, according to Time magazine, have been carried out by children http://blog.camera.org/archives/2005/04/children_terror.html

[ZULU]

REAL gutless wussies.

Some people NEED aristocrats to make them behave like men.

[TigersEye]

Commentators and the media across Europe had expressed shock and unease on Sunday at graphic television pictures showing the last moments of Hussein just before his execution.

"Asked about the beheading videos released by Muslim extremists commentators and the media across Europe said ... (crickets chirping)"