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Al-Jazeera airs video of 'murder' of US national
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 14, 2004

Posted on 06/13/2004 12:18:43 PM PDT by sarcasm

Qatar's Al-Jazeera television aired video footage on Sunday of what it said was the murder of US national Robert Jacob in the Saudi capital by suspected Al-Qaeda killers.

The body of a Western-dressed man is seen hitting the ground as several gunshots ring out.

The feet and legs of two men in civilian dress are also shown, apparently the assassins.

The scene is in the covered yard of a residential building where a four-wheel drive vehicle is parked in a garage space.

The footage was attributed to an Al-Qaeda terror cell, which claimed responsibility for the killing.

The video described the victim as "American Jew Robert Jacob, who worked for the spy group Vinnell".

Mr Jacob, 44, who worked for the US Vinnell Corp, which helps train the Saudi National Guard, was shot dead at his home in Riyadh on June 8. He was reportedly shot nine times in the head.

A US national was killed in a drive-by shooting and another American believed to have been kidnapped in the Saudi capital on Saturday amid a bloody campaign by Al-Qaeda to drive Western "infidels" out of the kingdom.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; robertjacob; vinnellcorp
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1 posted on 06/13/2004 12:18:43 PM PDT by sarcasm
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To: sarcasm

Of course, we won't see this on American tv. We wouldn't want to enrage anyone. < /sarc>


2 posted on 06/13/2004 12:21:15 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Ronald Reagan - Greatest President of the 20th Century.)
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To: sarcasm

bump


3 posted on 06/13/2004 12:22:41 PM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: sarcasm

Why have we let al Jazeera continue to exist?


4 posted on 06/13/2004 12:27:58 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: sarcasm
Reality TV...Arab style.

LBT

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5 posted on 06/13/2004 12:28:10 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Find the terrorist's families and liquidate them. It's time to make this very personal.)
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To: sarcasm

Here's the video right here:

http://67.15.16.7/~nein/J1.rm


Be warned, terrorist propaganda is included in the first segment of the video.


6 posted on 06/13/2004 12:29:20 PM PDT by FredWolfe
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To: nuconvert

Horrible. I hope he didn't leave behind any children.

I wonder if Americans and other westerners working in Saudi are armed? And if not, why aren't they?


7 posted on 06/13/2004 12:29:44 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Rejection of absolutes = absolute chaos, then totalitarianism, and then absolute hell on earth.)
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To: sarcasm

Hey they're just showing what their audience wants to see. Ratings, you know.


8 posted on 06/13/2004 12:42:08 PM PDT by thoughtomator (No Gays = No AIDS; No Arabs = No Terror; No French = No Appeasement)
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To: sarcasm
He was reportedly shot nine times in the head.

Is there any explanation for this?

Oh yea, it takes extra bullets to really really kill a Jew.(sick)

9 posted on 06/13/2004 12:42:17 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
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To: sarcasm
The video described the victim as "American Jew Robert Jacob"...

Which is why liberals won`t hold any protests since they are just as anti-semetic as the muslim cultists. Dan Pearl, Nick Berg and now Robert Jacob..still no protests still no protests still no protests like my tagline says...Hey after all even though Israel takes up 2/10ths of one percent of land in the middle east yet has 14 times the population density of all the other Muslim cultist nations, and is the only democracy among the Muslim cultist nations,Israels still gotta give up that land to the Muslim cultists. There`s just no room left in the rest of the middle east, and how dare the United States try to prevent Israel from being annihilated. Curious that Jews like Barbara Streisand could call herself a Jew yet be so incredibly anti semetic. I guess it`s the psychosis. "Bush is evil" but not the muslim cultists, right Babs? Lets make a movie for CBS bashing Reagan while he`s on his death bed, but let`s completely ignore 36 years of global terror and 50 years of blatant anti-semitism and terror by Islam and liberals against Israel for over 50 years.

10 posted on 06/13/2004 12:45:26 PM PDT by stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims (I`m still waiting for the protests against terrorism.)
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To: sarcasm

Drop Moabs on Al-Jazeera.


11 posted on 06/13/2004 12:45:51 PM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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Mr Jacobs is from my town here in southern Illinois. I am sort of glad we are not going to see this for his family's sake.


12 posted on 06/13/2004 12:47:08 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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Can anyone clean up the image well enough to run the plates on the truck in the background. Heck that could something from a gang shooting in LA that these clowns picked up.


13 posted on 06/13/2004 12:47:54 PM PDT by The Louiswu (I am a - 40-something White, Republican and proud of it!)
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To: LoudRepublicangirl
video
14 posted on 06/13/2004 12:47:58 PM PDT by milestogo
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To: sarcasm

And Robert was not a Jew. He was a methodist, you idiotic Islamic crap.


15 posted on 06/13/2004 12:48:01 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

I thought our close allies in the War on Terra don't allow Jews in their country.


16 posted on 06/13/2004 12:49:41 PM PDT by OneTimeLurker
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To: LoudRepublicangirl
He was a methodist, you idiotic Islamic crap.

Doesn't really matter. Saturday people or Sunday people or one of their own who questions. They are equal opportunity murderers.

17 posted on 06/13/2004 12:50:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Latine loqui coactus sum)
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To: Cicero
Why have we let al Jazeera continue to exist?

If we shut them down, OUR press corps would go APOPLECTIC and accuse and report this administration's gestapo like tactics in censorship and TORTURE endlessly. GW would be baked, fried and roasted over open coals, and with the power that our COMMIE press has, it would be no time and GW's numbers would be in the teens.

18 posted on 06/13/2004 12:51:10 PM PDT by PISANO (NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
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To: milestogo

I'd really rather not give the terrorists their glory by viewing the video. Thank you for posting it. I'm sure your intentions are pure.


19 posted on 06/13/2004 12:52:09 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I know it doesn't matter to them but it pisses me off that they can't even be friggin accurate in their proclamations. Just because the guy's last name is Jacobs they assume he is Jewish.


20 posted on 06/13/2004 12:55:01 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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