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I heard this on the news today and it made my heart break. I hope the UK has the balls to say "as much as we love our guys if you do ANYTHING to them you are dead meat" and "release them now or die"
This article was sent to me and it is very important IMO:
If you want to be really angry go to www.gawaher.com. It's an online islamic forum. I checked it out for the first time yesterday and went immediately to the political threads where I found about half of these "mainstream" islamists arguing that the South Korean DESERVED to have his head sawed off!!!
71 posted on 06/23/2004 10:46:00 AM CDT by Junior_G
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158604/posts?q=1&&page=61
Beheading of a S. Korean> Exploding Demands to Military for Retaliation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158604/posts?page=61,20
Thank you to a dear pld friend BradsGramma!