It worked before
This is understandable. After all, mutilations worked in Mogadishu: Bill Clinton pulled the American troops out of Somalia after the Black Hawk incident. Osama has explicitly stated that he saw this as evidence that the Americans were weak-willed and could be defeated. So why shouldn't Iraqi jihadists try the same thing in Iraq? From WND:
WASHINGTON – The latest communique from al-Qaida calls for assassinations of world leaders, kidnappings and mutilation attacks like those carried out in Fallujah and Mogadishu, according to a translation and analysis by the Northeast Intelligence Network.The communication came in the form of the 14th edition of the Voice of Jihad, an online publication believed to be produced by Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization.
The communique offers support for the murders of four U.S. civilians in Fallujah, Iraq, who were providing security for food deliveries in the violent Sunni triangle. They were killed by militants, their bodies dismembered, burned and hanged on display.
The four American employees of a private U.S. security firm who were killed and mutilated in Iraq last week were identified as highly trained former American military troops.
The al-Qaida report linked the mutilation deaths with those of Army Rangers in Mogadishu in 1993 – deaths that resulted in the withdrawal of U.S. troops from that African nation. Bin Laden, according to some intelligence sources, was in charge of operational planning for that attack.
The Voice of Jihad encourages "holy warriors" to repeat such attacks until the U.S. withdraws all troops from the Islamic world.
Blackwater Security Consulting, a firm that provides paramilitary training for private and government needs, confirmed that the four men killed in Fallujah were employees. Blackwater declined to release their identities, but sources close to the families said three of the men were former U.S. Special Operations troops:
• Jerry Zovko, 32, an Army veteran from Willoughby, Ohio.
• Mike Teague, 38, an Army veteran from Clarksville, Tenn.
• Scott Helvenston, 38, a veteran of the Navy. His hometown was not known.
Other sources said the fourth man also had previously served in the military, but his identity was not immediately made public.
Blackwater Security Consulting, based in Moyock, N.C., recruits security specialists for contract work from elite U.S. and other special operations units worldwide. It also trains police and other government employees.
Television pictures broadcast outside the United States showed the incinerated body of one of the four contractors being kicked and stamped on by people in a jubilant crowd in Fallujah, while another body was dragged down the road by its feet. Two bodies also were temporarily hung from a bridge.
Last week, WorldNetDaily reported, a popular Islamic online site, quoting a European sheik, justified the mutilation of the bodies of enemies when it is part of retaliation.
Responding to a specific question about Islam's view of mutilating bodies of enemies in wartime, Sheik Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, wrote "it is permissible to mutilate the dead only in case of retaliation."
"If any one cuts the ear of another, his ear is to be cut in return," wrote the sheik. "If he inflicts any physical damage on anyone, he should be retaliated against in the same manner. In case of war, Muslims are allowed to take vengeance for their mutilated dead strugglers in the same way it was done to them."
The sheik cited the Quranic verse: "If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were inflicted. But if ye endure patiently, verily it is better for the patient."
"This verse was revealed when the polytheists mutilated the corpse of Hamzah ibn Abd el-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him)," the sheik continued. "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) swore to mutilate seventy corpses of the polytheists in retaliation for what they had done with Hamzah's dead body."
Other sheiks offered dissenting opinions on whether mutilation is ever warranted or justified.
The Voice of Jihad communique also points to the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as an action to be emulated.
“It specifically encourages assassinations and kidnappings as a means of advancing the efforts of the jihad and taking the struggle to greater levels,” reports Northeast Intelligence Network.
..."If any one cuts the ear of another, his ear is to be cut in return," wrote the sheik. "If he inflicts any physical damage on anyone, he should be retaliated against in the same manner. In case of war, Muslims are allowed to take vengeance for their mutilated dead strugglers in the same way it was done to them."
The sheik cited the Quranic verse: "If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were inflicted. But if ye endure patiently, verily it is better for the patient."
Surely this can't be in the Qur'an! This is the Hammurabi's Code!!!
bin Laden doesn't follow the Qur'an. Well, maybe the chapters on war. This just once again demonstrates that rules of war need to be tossed as our enemy is not abiding.
They hide behind women and children like scared little boys. They are the most useless entity on the planet, and they, like a boil, need to be removed.
Most of these Muslims are illiterate. They can't even read the Koran. If they could, they would read that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people! Sheikh Palazzi of Italy knows that and has come out and said so!
chaya your just as dillusional as the muslims. land is land there is no land on this planet promised by "god". and please dont qoute scripture written by MAN as proof that any land is promised to them by god.
Sheesh, you can get a Muslim to do any sort of evil, just say Allah allows it.
It's sad that humanity is willing to indulge in all manner of evil as long as it's thought to be approved by whatever God one uses at the time.
At one time in history people thought God allowed, well demanded, human sacrifice.
And at one time in the 7th century a man thought God, who he called Allah, allowed rape and holy war and killing and sex with 9 year old girls.
It would be nice to throw all these outdated ideas into the trash heap of history where they belong.
Joseph, the writing was from man, as told to them by God.
Read history. This is the tactic used in previous centuries. Impale the heads of innocents on spikes, torture victims within earshot of the walls so that the inhabitants could hear the screams of the victims and be encouraged to capituate.
Multilations and kidnappings are the tactics that have worked in the past. Their contempt for us is that they think we are frightened and weak and will cave to the sight of such horrors. However, little do they understand that such sights inflame our passions and put steel into our backbones.
Blame the modern appeasers for this present round of ancient horror tactics. Look a few moves ahead in this game of chess to see what the aggressors hope to achieve.
The problem we have with too many Muslims is that unlike most humans, they have no value for life, even their own. Too many Muslims are even willing to encourage their children to take their own lives in homicicde attacks.
The Creator gave all creatures a strong will to live, from bacteria to mammals. So how can we explain the Muslim desire for death? Can mere words in a book or words spoken by another Muslim break down the strong instinct to survive? Are Muslims even creatures of the Creator? Or are they animated flesh made by a more sinister source in our universe?
It is not surprising that too many Muslims are willing to commit crimes against humanity, such as corpse mutilation, considering that they have no regard whatsoever for any life.
The time is coming when we will have to consider Islam a disease that threatens mankind's very existence. Man has exterminated smallpox to save mankind. Perhaps the alien Cult of Death that too many Muslims practice should be the next virus that mankind exterminates with extreme prejudice.
Maybe the black rock in Mecca is the source of this virus. Fire kills all virii.....and we have some pretty hot fire devices.
The radical muslims are the biggest bunch of pussies that I have ever seen.They feel power from beating on dead corpses.The Marines could destroy these scumbags in a few days if we unleash their full furry.The only losers letting the evil ways of the radical scum shake their resolve are the liberal and democrat cowards.Kill the enemy and we will have peace.
To "Junaid": You say the bible is corrupted. That is false. What you are really saying is that God is not able to preserve His word. That is blasphemy. We have many ways of translating the same thing in English. That does not invalidate any of the translations, but increases the depth and scope of the beauty of God's word, like a rose opens its' petals as it blooms. The more fully we understand God's word the more beautiful it becomes.
I defy you to prove Mohammed wrote the Koran. Koran means "recited" or "spoken", not written. To write it instead of speaking it as his angel told him would have been a violation of what he was commanded to do. Furthermore, there is no copy of the Koran in Mohammed's handwriting anywhere in the world, not has there ever been one. No Muslim can point to a Mosque somewhere and proudly proclaim "See! Here is where the book written by an uneducated man rests!" So don't try and come at us with some false moral superiority you think the Koran gives you. The Koran contains numerous scientific errors that prove it to be man made and not inspired by God. Would God not know that the sun doesn't set? Would God not know that the moon was never a sun?
Mohammed spoke and others wrote what he said. That is dictation, and no miracle. The Koran as it exists today was not even codified in its' present form until after Mohammed's death. Therefore Mohammed does not qualify as a prophet of God under the laws of Moses in the book of Deuteronomy:
Deuteronomy 18:20
'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'
Deuteronomy 18:21
"You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'
Deuteronomy 18:22
"When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
There is no prophecy in the Koran. Thus I can only assume one of two things:
1) That Mohammed is not a Prophet, or
2) that Mohammed is a false prophet.
Mohammed admitted he was deceived by Satan and worshipped three female dieties, al-Lât, al-Uzzâ and Manât in addition to Allah for a time. Is there any recorded instance in the Old Testament of a true prophet of God ever being deceived by Satan? Did the God of the Old testament ever allow His people to worship any "gods" other than Himself? Especially three goddesses? Further more Mohammed is not like Moses because teh Bilbe tells us in teh Old Testament that Moses was educated. Mohammed was uneducated. God spoke to Moses "face to face, as a man speaketh with a friend". God allowed Moses to see his "lesser Parts" when He passed by. Mohammed never saw God or spoke with him. God appointed a leader for His people before Moses' death. Joshua. No successor was appointed before Mohammed died. Moses built a temple according to God's plan, which is recorded in the Old Testament. Mosques differ greatly from the Tabernacle God showed Moses. There was only one Tabernacle to represent the fact that there was only one God. Jesus told his followers that He would send them the comforter "A few days from now". Mohammed came some 600 years after Jesus. If Jesus did not send the comforter as He promised "in a few days" then He would have been a false prophet (Deut 18:20-22) and could not have been the Messsiah.
Not that thinking people need it, but Al Qaeda's call for more mutilations is further evidence that former US president Bill Clinton's decision to cut and run from Somalia was a big mistake. Appeasers and wafflers like Clinton have a lot of blood on their hands.
Yes America has interfered in places it should have stayed out of again. For its own & Israel's reasons nothing to do with liberty or any of the other drivel the American public is being fed. Coming from a free country we get to see all the news denied to the American public by News Co's that have ties too close to government. Most of these fanatical Muslim headcases in some way owe their creation to the US. Rest easy brothers history has proven money, power & an iron resolve will see all these useless dirtbags get their free trip to to heaven.
Am I the only person out here who thinks that Ted Kennedy and the Democrats cheer every time something bad happens to us in Iraq.
k.r. you are not the only person that thinks that, and it is true. Remember they do not want America to win or defeat this islam threat; only to further their politics of the left.
Folks, how many of you believe it's getting to the time when it's 1) Us or 2) Them?
Raise your hands.
Er, Cubed, how am I supposed to type with both hands raised?