The son and partner of a Polish geologist murdered by militants in Pakistan pay homage to him at his casket after his remains return to Warsaw
Posted on 04/29/2009 1:36:37 PM PDT by lizol
Body of Polish man slain in Pakistan returned home
Wednesday, 29 Apr, 2009 | 03:06 PM PST |
Warsaw, Poland - The remains of a Polish geologist beheaded by militants in Pakistan were returned to Poland in a casket draped in the two countries' flags and covered in flowers.
Piotr Stanczak's body was flown to Warsaw's military airport on a Pakistani air force plane. In a short ceremony on the tarmac, a Roman Catholic priest prayed over the white casket.
Dressed in black, Stanczak's son and girlfriend stood briefly by the casket, their heads bowed.
The geologist was one of a handful of foreigners kidnapped in Pakistan in recent months as the country witnessed deterioration in security along with a rise in al-Qaida and Taliban-led violence.
Stanczak was kidnapped Sept. 28 close to the Afghan border while he was carrying out a project for a Krakow-based geophysics company that surveys oil and gas fields.
He was held hostage for several months before his captors beheaded him in February, a killing that they videotaped.
On Sunday, a car dropped the casket near a paramilitary camp in Razmak, Pakistan.
Officials then confirmed the remains were those of Stanczak - AP
The son and partner of a Polish geologist murdered by militants in Pakistan pay homage to him at his casket after his remains return to Warsaw
He was held hostage for several months before his captors beheaded him in February, a killing that they videotaped. ......................... I guess it is some kind of subhuman entertainment for them? Sarc/
Poor gentleman. I hope he found comfort in faith. Condolences to the girlfriend, son and any other family.
These animals all need to at least be neutered, if not eradicated.
I hope he wasn’t “harshly interrogated” by his captors.
Jesus wants your soul.
Allah just wants your head.
These people are monsters, animals.
God rest his soul.
Words are totally inadequate to express my revulsion. Animals are insulted by any comparison to these retro cretins. They are amoral devils. This innocent man, to the end, probably had the faint hope, if not the expectation, that his captors would not wantonly and cruelly murder him.
Ahh, to be 800 meters away with a sniper rifle at that time...
May Piotr Stanczak rest in peace safely at home in Polish soil. May the “West” finally awake to the danger that Jan Sobieski successfully confronted three and a quarter centuries ago.
Scum of the earth...scat of Satan!
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