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Originally posted by blackmonsters
Wierd points:
1. Terrorist usually announce the kidnapping so they can milk it for a while. But the guy was killed right away.
2. He was trying to get out of Iraq after a bad experince but some how he lurks around until he gets snagged again. I would
haul ass out of there right away once re-leased from jail.
3. Why was he held in jail for 13 days? Did he know something harmful to the US and his elimination would be desired?
4. Why was the video claiming that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was doing the killing and emphasizing that point when all Zarqawi had to do was remove his mask if he wanted it to be known?
5. The timing is just perfect to show that abuse in Iraq is worse than abuse by US prisons and shift negative opinion away from the US. And what a way to "TOP" the US abuse photos with a recorded beheading.
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1./ In the transcript they claim to have offered an exchange with government for Iraqi prisoners, he also says he will kill him in revenge for the prison abuse. Also please note it also made the news that Al-Quada would offer rewards for the killing of any american citizen.
2./ He was already trying to find work in a warzone, not exactly your local job center.
3. John Walker Lindh was interrogated after he was picked up in Afghanistan by the F.B.I at camp Rhino, they no doubt wanted to know why he was in Iraq, and verify who he was (in another thread someone posted a link saying on March 31st the F.B.I visited his parents and asked them to verify their sons identity, because he was self-employeed and was in Iraq for his own company it is harder to prove than some of the other civil contractors in country who is whom.
4. Because of the huge power vacuum left by the killing and capture of numerous high ranking Al-Quada it would seem Al-Zaqwari is attempting to be a big player in Al-Quada, and he pretty much is, how better to get the attention of your peers? (speculation of course)
5.
Well might be good timing for some, not so much for the victim, also even the Arab news media are not playing the tape in it's entirety, it was posted at a well known islamic extremist site, I don't think it draws any attention away from the prison abuse scandal because I will never see a picture of an iraqi with a pair of underwear on his head, and on the right side, the Al-Quada guy holding a severed head, most people who have not even watched the video seem to presume the killing was a fast ordeal, not so as you already know.
The impact is not even the same without watching the video I have not heard once the news talk about how long he screamed, or the fact his head was effectively sawn off, rather than cut.