Posted on 09/08/2006 1:33:18 PM PDT by kronos77
LONDON, England (CNN) -- CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Peter Herbert, a British human rights lawyer who visited Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe-bomber" in a U.S. jail in 2002.
Herbert, who had no role in Reid's defense, was interviewed at his office in London. Here is the full transcript:
Anderson: So you traveled to see him? (Watch the interview -- 3:04)
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Q. Well, you talked at length I believe and perhaps with more detail than you might have expected about what had happened that day and indeed why Richard Reid had been involved. When you asked him why young men like himself were willing to commit mass murder and suicide in the name of Islam, what did he say?
A. Well, I didn't put it quite as directly as that as you can appreciate, but he volunteered in a sense, and felt at ease about explaining that he certainly wasn't as the press had portrayed him: mad. He didn't regard himself as evil, he regarded what he was about to do as being a necessity and in a great cause which was to bring the world and especially America's attention to the injustices being suffered by Muslims in different parts of the world. He mentioned specifically Bosnia, he mentioned Iraq and Afghanistan which was unfolding at the current time and he also specifically mentioned those in detention at Guantanamo Bay and he felt an affinity with the Palestinian people which you might at first flush not recognize as somebody who was born and brought up in south London.
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Bosnia, terror, Al-Quaeda... Clinton.. pile of sht...
At first I thought this was about foot odor.
"what he was about to do as being a necessity and in a great cause which was to bring the world and especially America's attention to the injustices being suffered by Muslims in different parts of the world."
What about all the people who've been beheaded by Muslims? We're supposed to overlook that?
I find it interesting that the MSM says nothing about the fact that Reid's mother was a Pakistani. Is it too PC to mention that embarrassing fact? He's really a home grown hybrid!
In a just world, he would be strapped to a chair in a steel room wearing his special "shoes". Light the fuse and close the door.
Sh-Boom Lyrics
Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang
Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay
Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
(Hello hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again)
Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If only all my precious plans would come true (sh-boom)
If you would let me spend my whole life lovin' you
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Now every time I look at you
Something is on my mind (dat-dat-dat-dat-dat-duh)
If you do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine
Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da, sh-boom
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da, sh-boom
Every time I look at you
Somethin' is on my mind
If you do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine
Life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
(Hello hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again) boom sh-boom
Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang (sh-boom)
Ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay
Life could be a dream
Life could be a dream, sweetheart
Life could be a dream
If only all my precious plans would come true
If you would
All these wussy life sentences for terrorists. Just kill them. Hang their maggot infested bodies out in the hot sun and dry them like a mummy and ship them via Air Nukem to the Izlamoworld headquarters. Put pork rinds in the warheads (saves on weight) and contaminate their Izlamofascist worlds.
How did you know I'm fond of that song? Is it the suggestive lyrics, ya think? ;o)
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