So beheadings are nothing more than "occupational hazards" to you.
For a foreign correspondent it is. And not just beheadings, but torture, sexual assault and all of the nastiness that humans have dreamed up to make their fellow humans die. It isn't like this has never happened before, remember Daniel Pearl? That was under Bush, you might not remember.
And even Pearl wasn't unique. Here is a list of Americans since we invaded Iraq. All but one was under Smirk. And this was just in Iraq.
12 Killed[ edit] Nicholas Evan Berg, a businessman went missing on April 9, 2004. His widely publicized beheading was shown in a video May 11, 2004. His body had been found the day before. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally beheaded Berg.Owen Eugene "Jack" Armstrong, a contractor for the construction firm Gulf Supplies Commercial Services of the United Arab Emirates, [27] was kidnapped on September 16, 2004. He was beheaded [28] on 20 September 2004. [29] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally beheaded Armstrong. [30] [31] The following day, the group beheaded fellow American Jack Hensley, and threatened to kill their third hostage, Briton Kenneth Bigley, unless the United States met their demands to free all women prisoners in Iraqi jails. [27] Bigley was beheaded in October 2004. [28] Ronald Alan Schulz, an electrician, was reported kidnapped on December 6, 2005. On December 19, 2005, the Islamic Army released a video showing Schulz's killing in which he is shot in the head after the U.S. refused to release all Iraqi prisoners. His remains were found in September 2008 and confirmed to be Schulz's the next month. [32] Thomas William Fox, an aid worker working for Christian Peacemaker Teams, was reported kidnapped on November 27, 2005, along with two Canadians and a Briton. [1] His body was found in a rubbish heap on March 10, 2006. See 2005-2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis.John Roy Young, Joshua Mark "Josh" Munns, Paul Christopher Johnson-Reuben and Jonathon Michael "Jon" Cote, four security contractors, were kidnapped with an Austrian named Bert Nussbaumer on November 16, 2006. They appeared in two hostage videos released in December 2006 and January 2007. The kidnapped contractors stated in their video that they would not be released until the following demands had been made; the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and the release of all Iraqi prisoners in exchange for the hostages's release. Four fingers were sent to U.S. authorities in February 2008. The fingers belonged to Munns, Reuben, Cote and Nussbaumer. The bodies of Young, Nussbaumer, Munns and Reuben were recovered in March 2008. Cote's body was recovered in April 2008. [33] [34]Ronald Joe Withrow, a contractor, was kidnapped along with his translator and driver on January 5, 2007. The translator and driver were found dead the next day. One of Withrow's fingers was sent to U.S. authorities in February 2008. His body was recovered in March 2008. [35] Steven Charles Vincent, a journalist, was kidnapped along with his Iraqi translator, Nouriya Itais Wadi, in Basra on August 2, 2005. They were bound, gagged, taken to an undisclosed location where for five hours they were beaten and interrogated, then taken to the outskirts of town and shot. They were found by British and Iraqi policemen but Vincent was dead, shot in the back at close range. Wadi survived despite having been shot three times. [7] James Foley, a journalist who was kidnapped in November 2012 in Syria, was beheaded by members of the Islamic State in mid-August 2014. His death was confirmed on August 19th, 2014 and a video of his death was released by members of the Islamic State.[ citation needed] Part of IS's ransom for Foley's release was a demand that Aafia Siddiqui be released. [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]en.wikipedia.org
So yes, it is an occupational hazard. |
