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DVD of American's beheading is hot item in Gaza
Jerusalem Post ^ | Sep. 29, 2004 | LAMIA LAHOUD

Posted on 09/29/2004 9:56:17 AM PDT by yonif

Video shops in Gaza are selling a new DVD featuring the recent beheading of an American in Iraq. The gruesome video, priced at NIS 15, is apparently selling like hotcakes.

"When I saw the DVD I started to worry about our future," said Muhammad, a young Gazan father of three who works for the Palestinian Authority. It was so cruel. I couldn't watch. I only looked at the still shots."

Muhammad bought the DVD "out of curiosity," he said. "Of course I did not bring it home to my children. I watched it in my office."

The clip starts with masked men reading the charges and justifying their actions based on Islam. They accuse the American civilian of assisting the "allied occupation forces," place the knife at his head, and start to cut. When done, they hold up the severed head.

"They used a knife which was not sharp... It seems they wanted to kill him slowly to torture him," said another Palestinian who saw the footage.

"The worst thing I remember is the howl of the poor hostage... He was shaking all over. It's hard to imagine how anyone can watch it."

Muhammad said he believes most buy it out of curiosity, but he acknowledged that there is growing anger at the US for its "occupation of Iraq," which many compare to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. "Those selling the DVD do it for the money. They download it from the Internet for free and then sell it for NIS 15."

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the recent beheadings of two American civil engineers – Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley – taken hostage with British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley on September 16.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cultureofdeath; dvd; idf; iraq; israel; muslims; ploterrorists; terrorregime; waronterrorism
And the world wants to give these people a state?
1 posted on 09/29/2004 9:56:22 AM PDT by yonif
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To: SJackson; Yehuda; Nachum; Paved Paradise; Thinkin' Gal; adam_az; Alouette; IFly4Him; Salem; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 09/29/2004 9:56:42 AM PDT by yonif ("So perish all Thine enemies, O the Lord" - Judges 5:31)
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It was so cruel. I couldn't watch. I only looked at the still shots

I buy Playboy for the articles....

4 posted on 09/29/2004 10:00:17 AM PDT by freebilly (Elect the Vietnam Vet in '04-- Vote Jane Fonda....)
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To: yonif

and the American Taxpayer gives these scum AID every year???


5 posted on 09/29/2004 10:03:19 AM PDT by prophetic (What do u call someone who flip-flops so much? A Politician? No, a HYPOCRITE!!)
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To: yonif

Better not let Mr. Berg, the father of the young man who was beheaded a few months ago in Iraq see this article. It could give him ideas on how to raise more cash for "the cause".


6 posted on 09/29/2004 11:04:03 AM PDT by finnigan2
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----And the world wants to give these people a state?----

What surprises you about that? There are Jews to be killed in the bargain, after all.

-Dan

7 posted on 09/29/2004 11:19:33 AM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Strange Things Are Afoot at the Circle K.)
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To: prophetic

bump.


8 posted on 09/29/2004 11:32:38 AM PDT by yonif ("So perish all Thine enemies, O the Lord" - Judges 5:31)
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To: yonif

They can have one in Hell!


9 posted on 09/29/2004 12:10:30 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: yonif
Typical Gaza viewer's reaction:


10 posted on 09/29/2004 12:12:00 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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