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(Update: HOAX) Al-Qaeda group 'beheads US man' [Iraq, Zarqawi]
BBC On Line ^ | August 7, 2004 | Unsigned

Posted on 08/07/2004 2:23:06 AM PDT by aculeus

Militants loyal to top al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have released a video which apparently shows a US citizen being beheaded.

The man says he is from San Francisco, Reuters news agency says. It is unclear if and when he was taken hostage.

Zarqawi militants have previously released footage of at least three hostages being decapitated.

They include a US businessman, a South Korean translator and a third man said to be a Bulgarian lorry driver.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedairaq; beheading; benjaminford; hoax; iraq; sf; zarqawi
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1 posted on 08/07/2004 2:23:06 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus

Bastards!


2 posted on 08/07/2004 2:24:04 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Let's roll" in 2004 ----- Vote GOP!)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Bastards!

That's no way to talk about the "Religion of Peace" - We should try to understand why they did it and see if we can make it up to them so they will forgive us.

On 2nd thought - kill the bastards!

MEGA-

Stay Strong
Fuzzy

3 posted on 08/07/2004 2:30:50 AM PDT by fuzzy122
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To: aculeus
The American on the tape identified himself as Benjamin Danforth (search), from San Francisco. He sat on a chair in a dark room, his hands behind his back, and said he had been offered for exchange with prisoners in Iraq.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128314,00.html
4 posted on 08/07/2004 2:32:31 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: aculeus; dennisw; SJackson; MeekOneGOP; B4Ranch; TrueBeliever9; Geist Krieger; JohnHuang2; Salem; ..

Onward Muslim Soldiers - ping. (another holy beheading in the name of aller)


5 posted on 08/07/2004 2:32:54 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (JOHN KERRY is as much like the WORKING MAN as WHOOPIE GOLDBERG is to GEORGE W. BUSH! - Vote BUSH!)
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To: aculeus

GD SOB MF'S CS'S P!

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE LEFT, ARABS, ROP, DEMOC-RATS??????????????


6 posted on 08/07/2004 2:33:50 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: aculeus
* * * * *

Don’t Worry – We Only Kill Infidels

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By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 8, 2004

After an Islamist rampage in the Saudi town of Khobar on May 29-30 that ended in the death of twenty-two persons, survivors of that atrocity have recounted how the terrorists went to great lengths to ensure that they would kill only non-Muslims. Their actions raise a delicate but urgent issue: how might non-Muslims best protect themselves if caught in such a situation?

Even as the massacre was underway, the terrorists took pains to distinguish Muslims from non-Muslims. Here are some of the survivors’ testimonies:

Hazem Al-Damen, Muslim, Jordanian: two terrorists knocked on his door and asked him and others hiding whether they were “Muslims or Christians.” On hearing “Muslims,” the assailants told them to stay in the room because their purpose was to rid the country of Americans and Europeans.

Abu Hashem, 45, Muslim, an Iraqi-American engineer (also called “Mike” in some accounts): The terrorists demanded his residency card, which documented his religion (Muslim) and nationality (American). That combination provoked an argument between two terrorists. “He’s an American, we should shoot him,” said one. “We don’t shoot Muslims,” replied the other. The two went back and forth until the latter decided it: “Don’t be afraid. We won’t kill Muslims, even if you are an American.” With this decision, the terrorists turned polite, even apologizing for breaking into Abu Hashem’s home, searching it, and leaving blood stains on his carpet.

Abdul Salam al-Hakawati, 38, Muslim, a Lebanese corporate financial officer: He and his family hid upstairs in their house after hearing gunfire. Downstairs, they heard the terrorists break in and rummage around before one apparently noticed framed Koranic verses on the wall and announced to the others, “This is a Muslim house.” When a heavily armed terrorist came upstairs, Al-Hakawati confirmed his identity by greeting the assailant with “Assalamu ‘Alaykum,” the Muslim greeting.

Nizar Hajazeen, Christian, a Jordanian software businessmen: He hid with another Jordanian in a room but they opened the door when two armed young men banged violently on it. The terrorists asked the identity of the Jordanians, Arab or Westerners. “We’re Arab,” came the response. Each was then asked, “A Christian or a Muslim?” Both claimed to be Muslims and showed a Koran as proof.

Taking care to kill only non-Muslims appears to be in response to widespread Saudi criticism of Islamist terrorism directed against Muslims; Saudis seem to agree that murder is a tool suitably directed only against non-Muslims, as two quotes suggest:

Abdelaziz Raikhan, a maintenance man for the Saudi security forces, responded to the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Riyadh that killed 5 people and wounded 148 on April 21, accusing the perpetrators of being “mentally ill. … There’s not one American in this entire area. Not one! What kind of jihad is this?”

Mohsen al-Awaji, a Saudi lawyer, suggests that terrorists should be encouraged by the authorities to go to the many “occupied territories that require resistance,” such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, and Chechnya. “If someone decides to go, we wish him luck. He’s going to die anyway, so let him die there while achieving something, not die here and kill innocents with him.”

Nor is this the first time Islamists have specifically targeted infidels. In Malaysia in 2000, for example, jihadists purposefully killed two non-Muslim hostages and spared two others, both Muslims. In Pakistan in 2002, a police chief noted killers “took a good fifteen minutes in segregating the Christians and making sure that each one of their targets gets the most horrific death.” The murderers separated Christians from Muslims by requiring each hostage to recite a verse from the Koran. Those who could not were shot.

In all these cases, non-Muslims facing jihadists could have saved themselves by passing as Muslims.

There are several ways they could have done this. They might have greeted their potential murderers with Assalamu ‘alaykum (which, ironically, means “peace be with you”). They might have recited in Arabic the Shahada, the Islamic statement of faith. Or they might have recited in Arabic the first sura (chapter) of the Koran, the essential prayer of Islam called the Fatiha (“Opening”).

In the past, such knowledge would have saved lives. It could probably do so again in the future.

7 posted on 08/07/2004 2:34:51 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (JOHN KERRY is as much like the WORKING MAN as WHOOPIE GOLDBERG is to GEORGE W. BUSH! - Vote BUSH!)
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To: aculeus

It is time that Bush comes out and says that even when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is over that we will never stop searching, hunting the people who are doing this. Like how the Israeli's hunted down the Munich killers.


9 posted on 08/07/2004 2:38:42 AM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: Truth666
A Ben Danforth from San Jose ran in the 1998 SFGate's "Run to the Far Side" 5K race. He came in 569th in the Men's.

I wonder if it could have been the same guy??

10 posted on 08/07/2004 2:43:54 AM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: GeronL

These terrorists will always need
to be "brought to Justice", by all
that Bush has said.


11 posted on 08/07/2004 2:44:31 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: WestVirginiaRebel



Couldn't agree with you more!</p>


12 posted on 08/07/2004 2:45:34 AM PDT by daddyOwe (If God wanted me to be a liberal he would of given me less brains)
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To: aculeus
This makes my blood boil.

We need to get this Zarqawi garbage and get him soon. Preferably NOT alive.

And while we're at it...al-Sadr is surrounded in Najaf. Why the heck is he still breathing???

{venting}

13 posted on 08/07/2004 2:51:54 AM PDT by Allegra (It depends on what the meaning of "is" is......)
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To: aculeus

The day will come when my God will judge these men and their false gods. I will now propose a toast to that moment.


14 posted on 08/07/2004 3:21:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Allegra
This makes my blood boil. We need to get this Zarqawi garbage and get him soon. Preferably NOT alive.

And while we're at it...al-Sadr is surrounded in Najaf. Why the heck is he still breathing??? {venting}

Venting is good.

Killing is better.

15 posted on 08/07/2004 3:22:28 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Happy2BMe
DemocRATS: It's Bush's fault!

16 posted on 08/07/2004 3:23:40 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: aculeus
Sinners will fall into hell inevitably, suddenly, justly, no power can turn away the wrath of God. His anger is like "great waters that are dammed,O SINNER! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the dammed in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about you, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of so to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment. Hope the wrath of God will visit these evil people.
17 posted on 08/07/2004 3:27:02 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: aculeus; Las Vegas Dave
Benjamin Vanderford, San Francisco... was a candidate earlier this year in the Dem primary for Supervisor District 5.... Fox News said they resemble each other.

If it ain't him, FNC should be a bit embarrassed

18 posted on 08/07/2004 3:31:03 AM PDT by GeronL (geocities.com/geronl is back, or will be)
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To: aculeus
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

This animal must be hunted down and killed ...no other outcome acceptable.

19 posted on 08/07/2004 3:36:49 AM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: Happy2BMe

Sounds like Jews in Europe during WWII. Where is the outrage?


20 posted on 08/07/2004 3:40:01 AM PDT by Casloy
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