If Tommy Franks was a pastor at his local church, or was known to recite prayer with his troops, would this AP idiot refer to him as a spiritual leader? These fascists (the reporter in this case) cloaks the terrorist in religion because they know our left will persecute anyone who speaks against the peaceful religion. They attempt to control thought by controlling the medium of thought: language. Any person on the planet speaking with any integrity at all would describe the actions of hate-filled murder-women-and-children and behead men fuzzybearded jackals exactly what they are, Terrorists. This attempt to define him as a holy man is a blatant attempt to protect his image and honor his cause. I don't care if ten billion people worship the diety (small D) he purports to represent, there is no God behind his actions and he deserves an ugly death, sans B.S. titles like "holy man" and "spiritual leader".
This war is going to go on and on, and the only thing that is ultimately going to allow this dipstick reporter to keep his own head on his own body is the bravery of the U.S. soldier and the brass cajones of the American President. Which the AP undermines daily.
Why is there no alternative to AP and Reuters, their crap is reported the world over. Their photo captions reprinted in every local newspaper in the country. I am outraged by the lack of outrage over these criminals cutting peoples heads off! I don't even know the poor people but it takes me days to get over this sick feeling in my stomach every time is happens.