EVEN HEZBOLLAH CAN'T STOMACH SICKENING IMAGES

New York Post ^ | 5/13/04 | ANDY SOLTIS

[kattracks]

May 13, 2004 -- Even the killers of Hezbollah were outraged by the beheading of Nicholas Berg.

"Hezbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shiite terrorist group said from Lebanon.

[Ruth A.]

Presumptive candidate, demo leaders, ACLU and peace movements were also silent about this atrocity.

[DB]

"EVEN HEZBOLLAH CAN'T STOMACH SICKENING IMAGES"

Actually they won't want to take the heat. No video, no problem.

[Barney Gumble]

I think Hezbollah has done plenty to help hurt the reputation of Muslims themselves.

I'm not surprised Arab press has whitewashed the incident.

I just hope the American press doesn't. Abu Grahib pictures have dominated airwaves. I wonder if Arab atrocities will or will the incident be downplayed?

[fire_eye]

Yeah... The rug pilots have got just *barely* enough brains to figure out that this doesn't make Allah look good (or them either...)

[lonevoice]

True. I've been listening to AM radio news on and off today with feeds from both ABC and CNN. Throughout the day they were reporting about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photographs in lengthy detail as the lead story. This was followed by very briefly reporting the beheading of Nick Berg, mostly to say that the family was blaming the U.S. government. I'm listening to the CNN feed and now at 1 AM they've completely dropped the report of Nick Berg.

[Qwinn]

Oh please. I love the NY Post, but this article is just dumb. Hezbollah is only denouncing it because the "timing" is bad, and it's distracting from the focus on the prisoner abuse. Plus, we just slapped sanctions on Syria, so it may have been geared toward placating their hosts with a BS denunciation.

Qwinn

[Adam36]

http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/mtarchive/004573.html

For those who are reluctant to label Hezbollah — the Syrian/Iranian-backed group that autonomously runs the southern end of Lebannon and delights in, among other things, kidnapping, sniping, and shooting rockets into northern Israel (which are then answered by “provocative” air strikes) — as a “terrorist” organization, consider this charming billboard, photographed by Canadian MP James Moore on a 2002 trip to the Lebanon/Israel border, at a time when the Canadian Parliament was debating whether to ban Hezbollah in Canada as a terror group.

So far you have seen part of the UN compound on the Lebanese side, the Hezbollah bunkers and flags, and the pictures were taken from the Israeli border point. What was also at the border was a 12-foot by 10-foot billboard of gruesomeness erected by Hezbollah about 6-inches from the Israeli border for the purpose of intimidating young Israeli troops. The billboard, seen below, shows 5 pictures. The picture on the top left is of a blown-up Israeli in a market after a suicide bombing. In the middle is a mutilated Israeli skull. On the top right is the picture of a wounded young Israeli soldier who was held captive. The bottom right is a picture of 2 Israelis being shot by a firing squad. On the bottom left is the picture of a member of Hezbollah holding up the severed head of an Israeli soldier at a celebration rally of the soldier’s killing. On the sign in both Arabic and Hebew are the words “Beware Sharon (Israel’s Prime Minister), we still have 3 of your soldiers.” When the billboard was erected, Hezbollah had just kidnapped 3 Israeli soldiers (two were in their early 20s, one was 19). Hezbollah has since killed all three soldiers.

Let us consider how one might go about negotiating with such people “in good faith” and to “constructive ends” with an eye toward both “peace” and “security.”

[piasa]

"The country that advocates human rights principles is now violating them and taking us back to the dark ages."

They have to progress beyond the dark ages before they can be 'taken back' to them.

[highlander_UW]

Hezbollah only condemned the beheading because it took attention away from the prison scandal.

[beaversmom]

I think after tomorrow, Nick Berg's name won't be heard except on the conservative radio shows. Maybe they will mention him a little when he gets buried--after that it's definitely over. His death will be a distant memory.

[Mr. Mojo]

The Hezbollah terrorists are smart enough to see the writing on the wall -- they're doomed.

[conservative in nyc]

I'm not surprised Arab press has whitewashed the incident.

I just hope the American press doesn't.

Well, the RAT newspaper of record, the New York Slimes, has whitewashed the incident too. No pictures on the front page and no editorial expressing outrage. Instead, yesterday they printed an editorial accusing President Bush of spinning Abu Ghraib. Perhaps they should look in the mirror.

[Caipirabob]

But Arab governments, including those friendly to the United States, were mostly silent about the grisly execution - as were Arab newspapers that often speak for their government.

Then they need to be put on "the list" immediately.

The government will have to deal with it eventually. They need to declare all out war with these fiends. Most Americans already have.

[weegee]

"Hezbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shiite terrorist group said from Lebanon.

They must have gotten the fax from CAIR.

[Freebird Forever]

Hezbollah condemns this horrible act

Nothing more than strategic deceit.

As long as they're drawing breath, they / their words can not be trusted.

[JZoback]

"Hezbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shiite terrorist group said from Lebanon.

This is gone beyond absurd.

A terrorist group is concerned "mercy, compassion and humane principles" are being undermined by another terrorist group.

[NRA2BFree]

Even the killers of Hezbollah were outraged by the beheading of Nicholas Berg.

Was that before or after they were showing off the mutilated bodies of the IDF soldiers that they had butchered? Oh, silly me. I forgot they belong to the "religion of peace" I must be mistaken. < /sarcasm>

[NRA2BFree]

Ping!

[Aquinasfan]

"Hezbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shiite terrorist group said from Lebanon.