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July 11, 2006

Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released on Internet by al Qaeda (Video/Images)

Topics: Iraq

Jawa Report has the story and the video:

[...] A brutal video showing the desecration of the bodies of two U.S. soldiers has been released on the internet by an al Qaeda linked group. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.

This video shows the true face of the enemies we fight. They are ruthless barbarians who boast about killing those they have taken hostage. We show you these images so that you will understand what it is we are up against. The video and images should enrage you. If you do not have righteouss anger after seeing this, you are beyond hope.

A message introducing the video states that this video is presented as "revenge for our sister who was ishonored by a soldier of the same brigade," referencing the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family by a group of American soldiers in al-Mahmoudiya.

... The two victims, Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker, were members of the 101st Airborne division abducted by al Qaeda in Iraq. A third soldier died in the attack.

... Their bodies were later recovered not far from where they had been kidnapped. The US military now says that their corpses were found tied together with a bomb between them. Three roadside bombs were planted
around the bodies. The bodies had been decapitated.

Continue reading at Jawa Report.

Jawa Report also has the video, but I suggest that after reading the rest of the story at JR, you look at the images only - they are sufficiently graphic so as to instill in your mind the brutality of the Islamists who butchered them.

Hyscience will not carry the video, however it is important that the American public have access to it, just to know the true nature of the enemy we face - (radical?) Islam. Additional stills and the video are here.

"Radical" Islam? I'm begining to wonder about "radical" verses "moderate" Muslims. I say this because we have the opportunity to observe how Muslims treat Muslims in Iraq; Sunni Muslims butcher Shi'ite Muslims, Shi'ite Muslims butcher Sunni Muslims, and they all butcher non-Muslims. Pray tell, how are non-Muslims suppose to distinquish between "good" Muslims and "bad" Muslims? If I didn't have Muslim friends that "appear" to want no part of the radical theology, I'd be hard-pressed to believe other than that all of Islam is the most violent, brutal, hateful, anti-religion ever contrived by man. This aside, I'm open to corrections, with proof, from the Muslim community. I'd be pleased to post it in a heartbeat, while remembering that we who are the true heartbeat of our nation, those of us who are wide awake to the dangerous threat from the Islamic terrorists around the world who seek to destroy our civilization and replace it with their stone-age ideology.

BTW, although off-topic here, as to the ideology of my Muslim friends - I'm prone to believe that they are representative of a Muslim community in the United States (the size of which I offer no opinion), that are indeed loyal Americans and peaceful, with no inclination to violence. I say this, because I've actually met with their political leaders (ANP - the strongholds of ANP are in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan, particularly North West frontier Province), and who are working to overcome the effects of an increasingly influential Islamist party in Pakistan [actually, the Islamist Mutahiddah Majlis-i-Amal (MMA)]

This aside, however, we must never forget Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker, and their brutal suffering at the hands of Islamists in Iraq.

God bless America, and God bless our troops. And never ever forget the terror, the pain, the suffering, forced upon Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker by the Muslim terrorists in Iraq. Keep the images (seen at Jawa Report) in your mind forever - and remember that you, your family, and your friends - could be next, should we fail in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world where we are fighting to hold back the dark plaque of Islamic fundamentalism (?).

Addendum: From a reader (Bill Levinson) at Israpundit:

In this no-win fight, we must watch what we say -- as when the government distances itself from an official's frank characterization of three suicides at Guantanamo Bay as a jihadist "PR stunt."And we must watch what we do -- as when we repeatedly send our military on dangerous house-to-house missions with restrictive rules of engagement rather than using air power.

As far as I am concerned, every detainee in Guantanamo should be provided with a free rope with a pre-tied noose at the end and a fixture for attaching it to his cell's ceiling, to use as he pleases. In fact, if they were proven to be waging war while dressed as civilians, they should have been shot upon capture and never even brought to Guantanamo.

When that mob at Fallujah was stringing up and burning dead Americans, a helicopter gunship should have fired all its missiles (with fragmentation warheads) right into the mob's center and then followed up with its machine guns. That would have guaranteed that nothing like that atrocity (murder and mutilation of Americans) would have ever happened again.

Remember that, to stop the LAST batch of Nazis, we and our allies had to kill something like seven million Germans while burning down entire German cities. We had to kill more than a million Japanese to stop Tojo, and we burned down or nuked at least three of their cities in the process. It will take similar measures to stop Hitler in a Headscarf, preferably before he obtains a nuclear weapon and detonates it in one of our cities.

In a war in which an interrogation could save a city, we rewrite our interrogation rules to make sure that they won't.

T. Bubba Bechtol, part time City Councilman from Midland, TX, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience. "If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's scrotum to a car's battery cables will save ONE American G.I's life, then I have just two things to say: " "Red is positive, Black is negative!"

Crude but right on the mark. (In practice, drugs might be more effective.) Unlike a prisoner of war (who is required to tell us only his name, rank, and serial number), a captured terrorist has no rights whatsoever under the Hague and Geneva Convention. "Red is positive, black is negative" is not even unconstitutional if nothing the prisoner says is used against him in court, and if its purpose is to extract life-saving information and not to punish. Civilian law allows any police officer (or in many cases an armed civilian) to KILL a criminal if that is what it takes to stop him from perpetrating a violent crime like murder or rape. Physical coercion of a captured terrorist that falls short of killing him therefore sounds a lot like "reasonable and necessary force" if that is what it takes to get him to tell, for example, where he and his cohorts have planted a bomb that could endanger innocent people.