Al Jazeera Praises Beheadings
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Saturday, July 3, 2004 9:55 p.m. EDTThe al Jazeera television network praised the practice of beheading captives as an effective wartime tactic on Saturday, hours after reports surfaced that a U.S. Marine had been decapitated, saying the atrocity "has earned insurgents their greatest success" in Iraq.
"Nothing succeeds like success and so long as the acts continue to put pressure on enemy governments there is little incentive for the perpetrators to stop," reported the terrorist friendly network, quoting a British trauma expert. In a report headlined "Decapitation: Execrable but effective," al Jazeera called the practice "a morale booster for the perpetrators," and said that beheading "has the converse effect on their opponents.""In war, ascendancy in the horror stakes can be a major battlefield gain," the network contended.
But it's on a political level, al Jazeera said, that beheadings have worked best for terrorists.
"While big exchange demands such as the cancellation of troop deployments or mass prisoner releases have been rejected, more modest aims have been realised."
The network cited a Turkish company's promise not to work with U.S. forces after two kidnapped Turkish workers were freed, the exodus of foreign workers from Saudi Arabia and demonstrations in South Korea against deploying troops in Iraq prompted by the beheading last week of Kim Sun-il.
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