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[apocalypsos]

I just saw the video of the American being decapitated by the Iraqi extremists that's up on Ogrish.com. All I have to say is just ... ugh. And I have a strong stomach when it comes to mind, so the act itself isn't what disgusts me. (Be forewarned if you're going to go see it ... it's forty seconds long of them literally sawing on his neck. And just when you think you've seen enough, his screams just cut off.)

Let me put it this way. The first person to so much as imply that now we have to retaliate back at the Iraqis runs the risk of a first-rate TP-issue bitch-slap. "An eye for an eye" works just fine until you realize if you keep it up, everyone in the kingdom ends up a one-eyed whiny freak.

When. The FUCK. Is all this going to end?

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[lots42.livejournal.com]

It came out because some fruit-loop deluded screwheads decided to 'take revenge' FOR the abuse scandal

[fyrdrakken]

And then you find out that this guy who was killed had been illegally held by the US military for about two weeks before they released him. It is not yet explained how he went from the US military to the hands of his captors, though IIRC he was originally captured by Iraqi security before being handed over to Americans...

[lots42.livejournal.com]

What?

A U.S. Contractor was captured by Iraqi security, given over to Americans where he was jailed then later ended up in the hands of Iraqi millitants???

[fyrdrakken]

Here's the latest article on the subject -- a "coalition spokesman" denies that Berg was ever held by American forces, though the article goes on to repeat the text of the article I read this morning in which his father says that in fact he was until his family back in the US complained and he was released...