“and I wouldn’t put it past these barbarians to do such a thing.”
I agree they are barbarians but I want more proof.
Michael Yon is the one source from Iraq that is believable. So on a short thread of 17 posts before mine, you post you do not believe it or are skeptical three times. Are you as post happy with doubt when the NY Slimes, Newsweek or Compost report falsehoods 50 plus percent of the time?
I agree. Similar stories have been reported down through history about the enemy. For instance, those about Iraqi soldier dumping Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators so they could steal the equipment, Germans killing children in Belgium at the start of WWI, etc., and they have almost always been shown to be untrue.
OTOH, the Holocaust and Gulag show that humans are by no means incapable of plumbing such depths of evil.
I would not be a bit surprised if Al Quaeda was definitively proven to be doing such things. Their documented barbarity means it isn’t such a huge stretch.
But I’d like to see some proof.