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To: Constant Reader who wrote (2212)	7/25/2005 2:21:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541108

I agree. He came out really mad. Torture does that to people- but still, it's too bad he didn't just die, considering how many people are dying now because of him.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (2212)	7/25/2005 2:32:31 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541108

CR... he was jailed and released in jordan..not egypt...and i'm not aware of any torture en.wikipedia.org you might find this interesting service.spiegel.de July 11, 2005 Print ZARQAWI'S NEW STRATEGY Four Days of Martyrdom By Bernhard Zand The murder of a diplomat in Baghdad suggests Abu Musab Zarqawi's terror network may have adopted a worrying new strategy. Even one-time allies now accuse him of letting blood spill indiscriminately against fellow Arabs. A video grab taken from a broadcast by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television network shows the Egyptian foreign ministry identity card belonging to Egypt's top envoy to Iraq, Ihab al-Sherif. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt knew Ihab al-Sherif was facing a death sentence soon after his ambassador was kidnapped in Iraq: nobody had claimed responsibility and nobody made any demands. Sherif, the top Arab diplomat in Iraq, was kidnapped the Saturday before last in western Baghdad. He did not have a security detail with him and he said that he was going to buy a newspaper. However, Iraqi and Egyptian government sources have indicated he was in fact on his way to hold talks with insurgents. His kidnapping took just two minutes. The martyrdom which followed it allegedly lasted for four days. Last Thursday, the militant group "al-Qaida in Mesopotamia," led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, confirmed on a Web site that it had murdered the diplomat and that the "just verdict of God" had been delivered. In a short film made before his purported murder, Sherif spoke about his diplomatic career and mentioned that he had worked for four years as the Egyptian ambassador to Israel. The video then fades to one of his captors: "You enemy of God, Ihab al-Sherif, your punishment in this life has come. In the after life, you will go to hell." According to terror-expert Dia Rashwan of the Cairo Al-Ahram Institute for political studies, the execution marks a new dimension of the jihad in Iraq, from which conclusions can be drawn about Zarqawi's own strategy in the war-torn country. The Jordanian terrorist has been under massive pressure, not only from the US and Iraqi troops who are hunting him, but even more so from his own followers. Well-known Islamist leaders have criticized Zarqawi for the seeming randomness of the violence he perpetrates in Iraq; his actions are damaging the Holy War. Zarqawi's most-prominent critic -- his one-time ideological father figure Issam al-Barkawi, alias Abu Mohammad al-Makdissi -- said last week that "violence that does not differentiate between women and children, civilians, soldiers, and American troops," is wrong. "The kidnapping and murder of relief workers and neutral journalists has distorted the image of the holy war. They make the mujahedeen look like murderers who spill blood blindly." Barkawi shared a prison cell with Zarqawi from 1995 to 1999. "Zarqawi reacts to these criticisms with extreme callousness," says terror expert Rashwan. "He doesn't care about convincing Muslims who doubt the righteousness of his cause." The kidnapping and attempted assassination of two other diplomats from Muslim countries in recent weeks should also be viewed in this context. The leader of Bahrain's commercial interests section in Baghdad, Hassan al-Ansari, was wounded in a failed kidnapping, and his Pakistani colleague Younis Khan was shot at while in his car and subsequently withdrawn by his government to Amman, Jordan. Now, the Egyptian alone remains at Zarqawi's mercy. But unlike the previous kidnapping cases in Iraq, no video showing the hostage being killed has been released. However, a "sharp sword" hangs over Sharif's head, according to a statement. But he's probably been decapitated already.