Barbara's right. 'Pod.
Posted on 06/21/2004 6:18:31 AM PDT by Mikey
Not that they cared, but the barbaric Muslims, who wave the religious banner of Islam with each murderous act, took more than the life of Paul M. Johnson Jr.
They brutally kidnapped, tortured and ultimately coldly – and no doubt with militant Islamic pride – slaughtered an innocent man.
They don't care.
Vice President Dick Cheney said we'll hunt the killers "one by one, and destroy them."
Wrong. "One by one" won't do it, because it'll turn into a case of Islamic Terrorist Whack-A-Mole and death is their ticket to paradise.
An al-Qaida website provided photographic proof: the bloodied body of a man in an orange jump suit with his severed head propped on his back. They thoughtfully provided a close-up of the face, that of Paul Johnson. U.S. intelligence confirms the murder.
For terrorists, brutality is business as usual. Beheading is part and parcel of their way of life. For them, for that part of the world, for that civilization (buried as it is in the 7th century), decapitation is not unusual. It's part of Saudi Arabia's justice system today.
They don't care.
They've done it to us before. Remember Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl? And, more recently, Nicholas Berg? Videos showed their suffering, humiliation and deaths, with the confirmation of seeing their heads separate from their bodies. American Robert Jacobs was shot early this month and the video showed (apparently) his head being cut off, but that wasn't confirmed.
And now, Paul Johnson. With the bloody handiwork seen on video screens, it's clear the list will grow. Johnson's death was a "lesson" for the West, for Israel and most importantly, for the United States.
The terrorists claim they were balancing the books. They "promised ... to kill the hostage" and that "the infidel got his fair treatment."
They said that because Johnson worked for Lockheed Martin on Apache helicopter systems, his death was retribution for "what Muslims tasted who were long reached by Apache helicopter fire ..."
The fact that Johnson lived in Saudi Arabia for 10-years, got along with Muslims and was not military, meant nothing.
They don't care.
These hostage takings, cruel treatment and grisly murders have nothing to do with the victim's humanity.
They don't care.
The hostages are "infidels" and have no value. To terrorists, they're of greater value dead, for the killing brings them closer to the Muhammad's teachings. They believe they're doing the will of Allah.
That's why Paul Johnson suffered an excruciating death.
They don't care.
That Johnson's wife pleaded on Al Arabiya TV for her husband's life meant nothing. That she suffered a total loss of hope and faces a lifetime of grief means nothing.
They don't care.
For friends and neighbors in the States who begged for his safety and held prayer vigils – there's just grief and anger.
The terrorists? They don't care.
Paul Johnson's son, who cried on camera begging for his father's life, now must face the reality of his murder.
They don't care.
That Paul Johnson never met his new grandson and was planning a trip home soon to meet him meant nothing.
They don't care.
That the reality of their loss hits the Johnson family on Father's Day weekend makes it all the more hurtful.
But terrorists don't care.
Terrorism experts say there's one purpose in such tactics: embarrass the government and force it to cave to demands. Having the upper hand, especially if the hostage is killed, builds prestige among followers and frightens Westerners.
The al-Qaida leader who threatened Johnson's death on video was Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, considered ruthless by Saudi officials. A raid on a house in Riyadh hours after Johnson's death ended with al-Moqrin and three others dead. Two more escaped.
They don't care that al-Moqrin is dead. They got their glory: a dead infidel, grisly photographs and Westerners leaving Saudi Arabia in droves.
President Bush said "America will not be intimidated by these kinds of extremist thugs."
Wrong! They're not extremist thugs. They're militant Islamist terrorists who need to be wiped out.
He also said: "It should remind us that we must pursue these people and bring them to justice before they hurt other Americans."
Wrong! "Bringing them to justice" would take an eternity – trying the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombings didn't deter terrorism against us.
As for "hurting" other Americans? Sorry, that's the least of our concerns. It's keeping Americans alive that's at stake. Pull out all the stops and wipe out these vermin – or it'll never end.
The next time they threaten a hostage, execute 10 Muslim prisoners for every day of the threat. Or do as the Soviets did when faced with a similar situation – send the terrorists a prisoner's body part and a note to return the hostage immediately.
They understand that and they will care.
Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
What if we just issue a pound of bacon to each GI. With each kill, stick a slice of bacon in their mouth.
What we should do and what we will do are two different things.
Unfortunately, that is true ... for now. ;)
Barbara Simpson should pay attention to the news.
Barbara's right. 'Pod.
NOW THAT'S A DAMN GOOD IDEA. Every time they find one of their dead comrades and see this piece of bacon stuck in its throat, that'd strike fear into them.
Good idea
I wonder if I can send my friend serving over there some freeze dried bacon?
An unfortunate truth.
Now the question you must ask yourself is "why won't we do these things" and the answer is that the liberal goofball communists who control all the media would throw an absolute fit.Just look at the Guantanomo mess they have created and the Abu Gahraib prison situation..as soon as we really started to play tough with these guys, the media would freak out...why??1) They hate America 2) They hate Bush 3) At their heart, they are truely Anti-American....sound crazy...just ask yourself this question...Do you honestly think that Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw would put their lives on the line for this country?? I don't think so either...
May God Bless the United States of America...or whats left of it...
Splitveer
The President will do what needs to be done.
I won't hold my breath. He should have been doing that a long time ago.
"I'd bring out a pig...I bet that'll strike some fear into their hearts and souls."
However it is done, defiling the jihadist's body is the way to go. These nutjobs believe in a mystical fruitopia and the only way to short-circuit that is to do bad ju-ju to them. Hundreds of years of colonial history should yield a few tricks...
What we should do is nuke-em, what we will do is NOTHING! Sad but true.
To many armchair commandos think they know what's going on.
I'm starting to think that when people say Americans don't have the patiences to see this through. What these animals are doing is backfiring on them. It's turning the "arab street" against them.
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So do you think an occupying force of 1 soldier to 350 civilians is adequate?
In WWII we occupied Germany and the rest with one solfier for every 40 civilians.
We should have done this right and we have not. Overwhelming force and occupation.
They are not turning the arab street against them. They are winning new converts every day.
Exactly. Tactical nukes to prove that we mean business. I'm sick of our armed forces folks getting picked off 2, 3, 4+ at a time.
Give the locals fair warning to turn the terrorists over and if they don't then back our troops to a safe distance and turn up the heat.
So do you think an occupying force of 1 soldier to 350 civilians is adequate
The administration thinks so..and I agree.
We should have done this right and we have not. Overwhelming force and occupation.
We did not go into Iraq to occupy but to liberate. Part of the problem is what we get about Iraq from the media is overwhelmingly negative. When in point of fact most of Iraq is peaceful, and for the most part the Iraqis are running the country and have been for a while now.
They are not turning the arab street against them. They are winning new converts every day.
Mahmood's Den
http://www.mahmood.tv/index.php/blog/659
What exactly are we waiting for?
Posted by: Mahmood Al-Yousif on Fri, 18 June 2004 18:23:16 | (888 reads )
Paul Marshall Johnson has reportedly been beheaded by his captors a few hours ago according to the BBC. The manner of his brutal killing was exactly like that of Nick Berg, alluding to the same perpetrators, or perpetrators sharing the same ideals and ruthlessness.
My question is what else are WE as Muslims, Arabs whatever are we waiting for exactly to rise against these bastards? It is quite clear that the governments we have inherited are incompetent in the face of this terror, espcially Saudi, where they still seem to try to sweep this event under a rug and still refusing to accept that this is a violent revolution or civil war that is happening, rather than a few criminals who were "led astray" by "foreigners."
The sooner they face facts and immediately put a transparent action plan in place, let by capable people the sooner we can sleep well again. But that, I fear, if a very long time coming.
My personal commiserations and heartfelt condolences to the family of Mr. Johnson.
Also I'd recomend
IRAQ THE MODEL
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
Now (in the intrest of honesty) you may very well be right, but in looking around I think we may be approching a tipping point on this.
/little miss mary sunshine
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