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Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:47 PM Dec 2014

al-Qaeda Denounces ISIS Beheadings: Use Bullets Instead.

Nearly a decade ago, Ayman al-Zawahiri — the man who would go on to become the head of Al Qaeda — wrote a letter to his deputy in Iraq, scolding him for beheading hostages and posting videos of their execution online. He explained that although he was in favor of killing the enemy and agreed with the principle of sowing terror, the scenes of slaughter risked turning public opinion against their organization.

His advice was to be more discreet: “Kill the captives by bullet.”

The letter — written in 2005 and recovered by American forces in Iraq — was addressed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of the group that would become the Islamic State, which split off from the Qaeda network earlier this year.

On Monday, Al Qaeda came out publicly against the practice of beheading in a strongly worded interview with one of its field commanders, making clear that the organization founded by Osama bin Laden was more pragmatic and as a result less extreme than its jihadist rival in Syria — which has turned the act of decapitation into a signature of its brutality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/world/middleeast/qaeda-commander-denounces-decapitations-as-used-by-islamic-state.html?_r=1

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delrem

(9,688 posts)
5. Hellfire missiles are the preferred method of dealing with
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:14 PM
Dec 2014

15 year old boys, wedding parties, and collaborators who rush in search for survivors scattered in the muck of body parts. To say nothing of how this method precludes the necessity for rendition and torture, with the awful possibility of trophy photographs being uploaded to facebook by smiling patriots.

Those forever re-spawning terrorists don't have a clue how to act like a freedom loving civilized western nation.

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