U.S. HOSTAGE SCREAMS IN HORROR AS HE IS BEHEADED

New York Post ^ | 5/12/04 | NILES LATHEM

[kattracks]

May 12, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - A young American contractor in Iraq was mercilessly beheaded by Islamic terrorists on a horrifying videotape released yesterday as so-called revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The sickening video, posted on an al Qaeda-linked Web site, shows a killer identified as terror boss Abu Musab Zarqawi sawing off the head of a screaming Nick Berg.

[GOP_1900AD]

This is a tremendous scoop. Thanks!

[CWOJackson]

Thanks for the ping. I have many pleasures in my life, a wonderful wife, two great sons, retirement from a career that I loved...and the undying hope that one day I'll be driving along and see HACKworth jay-walking.

[Travis McGee]

To shouts of "Allahu akbar" (God is great), Zarqawi thrusts a large knife into his neck and saws off his head.

"ALLAHU AKBAR!" is not the "Muslim call to prayer," it's the "MUSLIM CALL TO MURDER!"

[Travis McGee]

I'm not surprised. Hack is lunatic.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I appreciate your sentiments but I think this war is a lot wider than maybe any of us know or are willing to admit. Think WW II. The only way to win that war was to kill the enemy and enough enemy sympathizers so that the other side eventually surrendered unconditionally. We had to inflict so much damage on the enemy society that their will to fight collapsed. We may be facing the same thing now. The sooner we realize it, and act on that knowledge, the faster we reach an ultimate successful conclusion.

[Tamzee]

Okay, done... I posted a few slams. Felt great :-)

[unsycophant]

Shameless and despicable.

[Grampa Dave]

Nothing that Hackworthless does would surprise me in the past, the present and the future.

[No!]

Good timimg and grest posting! :)
Thank you!!

[unsycophant]

Thanks for signing up today to let us know this information on FR. Since you weren't able to let the participants on those forums know about the ID, I copied your post from here to there and provided a link to this thread. Hope that helps!

[McGavin999]

His parents talked to him AFTER he was released. He told them he was treated well. I think he was captured a couple of days later, because the parents said they stopped hearing from him.

What may well have happened is he couldn't get a flight out. I read on one of the Iraqi blogs that getting a ticket is almost impossible because of the long waiting lists. He may have tried on his own to drive to Jordan. He would have had to go right through the Sunni triangle to get there. Some pretty nasty people in the country between there and the borders.

[Charles Martel]

"Nation of Islam. Is there any excuse left to sit idly by?..."

Interesting choice of words. VERY interesting.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...the videotaped beheading appeared to be designed by Zarqawi to capitalize on the worldwide outrage over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and weaken the will of an increasingly anxious American public to support the U.S. war effort in Iraq."

This is guaranteed to backfire, imho...MUD