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It is commonly thought that Westerners, or Christians at least, won't fight to the death. In my own family, at least, that isn't the case. One of my grand-uncles had his head lopped off by the Japanese Army, after he tried stopping them from raping a women, just months after being released from a concentration camp after the Bataan Death March.

An old anti-Japanese guerilla told me a story that rivalled Robert Shaw's monologue in Jaws. He led a guerilla band operating in Bulacan, some miles out of Manila. The Japanese rounded up all the military age males in the vicinity and lined them up on Calumpit bridge. The Japanese officer wanted to know who the guerilla leader was, and stopped to interrogate the man next to him in line because he was a known rank and filer. "If you tell me your officer's name, I will let you go", the Japanese officer said.

I won't go into the details, but the man refused, and the Japanese officer cut him to pieces a bit at a time, an ear here, a nose there, a finger there, hoping he would break. All that time, the man the Japanese sought was standing right next to the dying man, who never uttered a word. But it was the fact that he tried to maintain a posture of attention until his last breath that the guerilla leader best remembered.

The Assasins haven't got a chance. Just ask Todd Beamer's relatives.

Assassination has a long and honored history in the Islamic world. Regimes and kings have been changed due to it. It's war by stealth/deception which is just the way they like it.

Saddam Hussein gained recognition when young when he assassinated an Iraqi leader

"How is Saddam Hussein, a man who can be easily compared to Hitler or Mussilini, been the leader of Iraq? This man was one in a group of people who assassinated Abdul Karim Kassem in 1959. This is a man who put people in prison because they spoke out agaist him ( they are usually tortured in prison. Examples of the torture include branding, electric shocks, administered to the genitals and other areas, beatings, burnings with hot irons, suspension from ceiling fans. They are usually killed after being tortured.) He is a man who loves the taste of power."