Hostage Beheaded: British Engineer Kenneth Bigley

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Just saw this on MSNBC. Islamic web sites are reporting he is dead.

Story

Beheaded

Reuters saw video of beheading.

Developing...

 

[conjur]

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Confirmed.

 

[dmcowen674]

 

[Pliablemoose]

 

[chess9]

THOSE FUSKING BASTAGES!



Give me 5 minutes with Zarqauwi, please!

-Robert

 

[GoPackGo]

He really had no business being in Iraq...as a reporter he was just trying to take advantage of the fact there was a story to tell. Its really no different than any of the contractors or other civilians that have been captured and murdered.

Its too bad that he was killed but there is no fate but what you make.

 

[Miramonti]

The civilians are the ones who are paying dearly for this war.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
He really had no business being in Iraq...as a reporter he was just trying to take advantage of the fact there was a story to tell. Its really no different than any of the contractors or other civilians that have been captured and murdered.

Its too bad that he was killed but there is no fate but what you make.

We all owe reporters who go there a great deal of gratitude. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't know the sh!thole that iraq has become and would only have the bs that the administration tries to shovel on everyone.

 

[The Green Bean]

very sad.....

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: hatim
very sad.....

You seem to be the resident anectodal link to Iraq. How do most Iraqis view reporters? Do they see them as independent of the occupiers or what?

 

[maddogchen]

I thought he was an engineer?

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
I thought he was an engineer?

Yup woops. The other 2 with him were journalists. Corrected it.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
He really had no business being in Iraq...as a reporter he was just trying to take advantage of the fact there was a story to tell. Its really no different than any of the contractors or other civilians that have been captured and murdered.

Its too bad that he was killed but there is no fate but what you make.

That's the way I feel out the US military in Iraq....BUSH shouldn't have sent them there!!!

Now....my condolences to his family. RIP!

 

[raildogg]

im not surprised. only lucky hostages get released, most dont

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: GoPackGo
He really had no business being in Iraq...as a reporter he was just trying to take advantage of the fact there was a story to tell. Its really no different than any of the contractors or other civilians that have been captured and murdered.

Its too bad that he was killed but there is no fate but what you make.

No there's a big difference. Journalists are doing a service for everyone undisputably, whether or not you think the war is wrong or right. We can't make informed decisions without reporters (or even with them).

Now ocontractors that go are supporting the US military. That's being partisan. That's playing one side of the coin.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: raildogg
im not surprised. only lucky hostages get released, most dont

The ones that get released are usually the ones that give concede something. The italians paid to have their hostages released. And those other ones got a pull-out.

 

[Dedpuhl]

:frown:

 

[Perknose]

Extremely sad . . . that long drawn out period of literally pleading for his life . . . I can't begin to describe the sadness and anger that I feel.

This war was brutally unneccessary. It has hurt our country, it has hurt the real war on terror, it it the smokescreen behind which John Ashcroft gets to secretly smelly your undies, it is the lying facade behind which Dick Cheney gets to enrich his buddies, and the benighted bastards who so eagerly promulgated this third trimester abortion should be summarily booted out of office and held to account before God and Country and the world for their lies.

 

It's starting to lose its shock value, which is a very bad thing. The Islamic monsters are desensitizing us to their barbarianism. They should show the beheadings on cable news so Americans can be reminded what kind of monsters we are up against.

 

[beyoku]

Originally posted by: dwell
It's starting to lose its shock value, which is a very bad thing. The Islamic monsters are desensitizing us to their barbarianism. They should show the beheadings on cable news so Americans can be reminded what kind of monsters we are up against.

Exactly......MONSTERS.....to even think they would use terms such as "shock and awe"!

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: dwell
It's starting to lose its shock value, which is a very bad thing. The Islamic monsters are desensitizing us to their barbarianism. They should show the beheadings on cable news so Americans can be reminded what kind of monsters we are up against.

Why can't they just blow people up into 100 pieces like civilized nations do.

 

[cwjerome]

So much hate, so many lies... and I'm not talking about the terrorists

 

Originally posted by: jjsole
Why can't they just blow people up into 100 pieces like civilized nations do.

Would you rather get blown to bits by a rocket or sit in a makeshift cell for 20 days, watch your two colleagues get beheaded, then have to sit there for two weeks waiting for them to do the same to you?

Yeah, way to sympathize with the sub-humans.

 

[GreatBarracuda]

Originally posted by: Perknose
Extremely sad . . . that long drawn out period of literally pleading for his life . . . I can't begin to describe the sadness and anger that I feel.

This war was brutally unneccessary. It has hurt our country, it has hurt the real war on terror, it it the smokescreen behind which John Ashcroft gets to secretly smelly your undies, it is the lying facade behind which Dick Cheney gets to enrich his buddies, and the benighted bastards who so eagerly promulgated this third trimester abortion should be summarily booted out of office and held to account before God and Country and the world for their lies.

Well said.