Another Beheading Imminent?
Counterterrorism officials are concerned that the beheading of a British hostage is imminent.
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Analysts say the video releases of the beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff took place two weeks apart and both were made public on a Tuesday evening.
If the timing was calculated, officials are concerned that the Islamic State will similarly murder British hostage David Haines on Tuesday.
Mr. Haines, a worker for a French non-governmental organization, was shown at the end of the Sotloff video dressed in an orange jumpsuit. The terrorist who spoke on the video said Mr. Haines would be the group’s next victim.[su_csky_ad]
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
juicyfruityyy September 12th, 2014 at 12:22 am
The beheadings, are not going to stop the counter-attacks.
Spirit of America September 12th, 2014 at 1:09 am
They are not meant to, they are a recruiting tool that they use: they justify the beheadings because of the bombings(“See how we don’t cower from the big bad Satan and his bombs?”) and we fight back. They then put in flyers & social media how they need real believers to help them in the fight against the west. It works; since 1st beheading they’ve recruited between 1,000 to 2,500 western muslims at last best guess.
Skydog2 September 12th, 2014 at 7:58 am
Read on another website:
“Bush won the war in Iraq, Obama lost the peace. Obama equated responsibly ending the war in Iraq with throwing away everything we had gained from it. Obama made it plain from the start that he saw no reason to keep investing in what he perceived to be a mistake. He let our military presence in Iraq lapse, and left the Iraqi government to fend for itself when it was still far too fragile. There is a reason we stayed in Germany, Japan, and South Korea for decades after the fighting stopped: We didn’t want our sacrifices to be for nothing, and we didn’t want to have to fight again.”
Suzanne McFly September 12th, 2014 at 8:07 am
Ok, and dirt tastes good and it is healthy for you skin to swim in a sewer….by just saying something does not make it true. Please explain how bush “won” the war because he had no plans for the end of the war, he knew we would be there well beyond his term in office. He had plans to throw our troops in the quagmire he created, but had absolutely zero plans on how to end the war. bush destroyed any chance for a government to emerge from the region and recreate a successful statehood as Iraq had previously to “shock and awe”.
Skydog2 September 12th, 2014 at 9:49 am
Obama followed Bush’s timetable to end the war but failed to leave forces behind.
Suzanne McFly September 12th, 2014 at 10:06 am
Leave forces behind without immunity? Who does that make sense too? Do you hate our troops? Every single Soldier, Sailor, and Marine would have been executed in kangaroo courts in that area. Who did not get the immunity extended? Your boy bush, not Obama, figure stuff out before you talk.
mea_mark September 12th, 2014 at 9:23 am
Iraq is an independent country and there leader Maliki wanted us gone, so we left. It was not Obama who lost anything. It was the Iraq leadership throwing away their future. It is their country and it is their right to throw away their future if they want to. It is stupid but it is their right and choice to be stupid.
Skydog2 September 12th, 2014 at 9:47 am
Maliki wanted us gone and Obama wanted out.
mea_mark September 12th, 2014 at 10:12 am
Obama wanted legal protection for our troops and a way forward in that country to train their people so they could defend themselves. Maliki threw away that opportunity when he thought he could consolidate his power ans stay in control. Maliki failed and his country is paying the cost for electing poor leadership. This was not Obamas decision to make, it was made by Maliki And Bush and Maliki didn’t want to modify it to meet the judicial standards that Obama and America wanted.
Budda September 12th, 2014 at 8:17 am
Why do these be headings offend us ? Is it because we are more civilized? I don’t think so. Bombs and artillery shred bodies, it also decapitates some.
Just some perspective.
mea_mark September 12th, 2014 at 9:26 am
Beheadings are a personal viscous cruel way of killing someone and it takes a special kind of person with a near total lack of empathy to commit.
uzza September 12th, 2014 at 9:40 am
Fail. In beheading by sword or guillotine death is virtually instantaneous, and has often been the preferred method of administering capital punishment, as it still is in Arabia, for exactly that reason. It beats hell out of writhing around on a table in Texas for 43 minutes.
mea_mark September 12th, 2014 at 10:02 am
A bullet to the brain without knowing it is coming, maybe. Knowing you are going to have your head taken off and just waiting for it to happen is cruel. That and the brain remains active for a period of time after being separated from the body. Maybe you don’t see that as cruel but I do.
What happened in Texas is another story and very cruel.
uzza September 12th, 2014 at 10:12 am
You’re conflating being killed with waiting around knowing you are going to be killed, a different issue.
Do you have a source to support your claim that the brain remains active?
mea_mark September 12th, 2014 at 10:31 am
I don’t see the waiting and the moments before death as being a separate issue. It is a cruel personal way to kill someone in my opinion and takes a sick person to do it. I find that offensive and I think other people find that offensive also.
As far as timing, it is not long but it is not something I certainly wish to experience. http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/dyk10.htm
R.J. Carter September 12th, 2014 at 10:39 am
Let’s also remember that when we’re talking about ISIS beheadings, we’re not talking about the “Hassan Chop!” from the Bugs Bunny cartoons, or the very heavy blade of the old French guillotines. These beheadings are a messy business, hacking and hacking and hacking until the knife finally cuts through the bone. It’s not quick and painless.
Tom Ward September 12th, 2014 at 4:57 pm
Exactly, these beheadings are not “virtually instantaneous” by any means. They are torturous.
If I had to choose I would rather be shot in the head or overdosed with the most powerful painkillers and sedatives available, even if my body was technically struggling for air for 43 minutes I doubt I would feel any pain unlike one of these beheadings.
uzza September 14th, 2014 at 10:03 am
Thank you.
My point had been that it is the murders that are offensive, and focusing on the particular manner of accomplishing them is a distraction. I’ve not watched the videos so I can’t speak to how brutally they are done, but that’s a PR tactic rather than anything inherent in a particular method of execution. I had not known about the 13 seconds. Horrible.
uzza September 12th, 2014 at 9:51 am
A quick Google search brings up beheadings in Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, New Guinea, India, Saudi Arabia, England, and Gaza. Using their corporate media outlets to stir up public outrage demanding a war in those countries, however, would not boost the oil companies bottom line.
craig7120 September 12th, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Correct!
Maybe a drone controller can hold up a some piece of human flesh and the u.s. can show it on arabic television so their society can be outraged at what war does to people, that or they can look out their window. Some countries kill people in the guise of war so its citizens can sleep better, some behead because the alarm clock doesn’t seem to be working.
I remember thinking when W invaded iraq, someday the orphans of war are gonna seek their pound of flesh, what does a human head weigh? Perhaps someday we as a people will tire of killing each other, I’m there already.
ChrisVosburg September 13th, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Sadly, this prediction has apparently come to pass.
mea_mark September 13th, 2014 at 6:00 pm
It’s not Tuesday yet. They must be getting anxious. Maybe they want to bombed by Britain too. Britain said they didn’t want to help with airstrikes in Syria against ISIL. Wonder how long that will last now?