I'm as opposed to extrajudicial executions as the next guy, but why is Reuters trying to pull heartstrings over the killing of a member of ISIS in Tikrit? Wtf
For those too lazy to click the link/read the article, here's the Reuters description below.
CAUTION IT IS GRAPHIC
[spoiler]The policemen laid the Egyptian's head over the curb. Then one of the police pushed the other out of the way and he swung his whole body down, landing the knife into the Egyptian's neck.
The cop lifted the knife and thrust the blade in the Egyptian's neck a second time. Blood gushed out, staining the boots of the cheering onlookers.
The killer started to saw through the neck, but it was slow-going. He lifted the blade again and slammed it into the Egyptian's neck another four times. Then he sawed back and forth.
Their fellow policemen chanted: "We took revenge for Colonel Imad."
The killer lifted himself up the street pole next to the dying man so he could address his comrades: "Colonel Imad was a brave man. Colonel Imad didn't deserve to die at the hands of dirty Daesh. This is a message to Colonel Imad's family don't be sad, raise your heads."
Then he shouted: "Let's tie the body to the pole so everyone can see. Bring a cable. Bring a cable."
His friend with the folding knife kept trying to stab the Egyptian, with no success. He cried out: "I need a sharp knife. I want to behead this dirty Daesh."
Finally the men found a cable, fastened it to the dead man's feet and dangled him from the pole.
One policeman grew upset at the spectacle and shouted: "There are dozens of media here. This is not the suitable time. Why do you want to embarrass us?"
The mob ignored him and continued trying to hoist the body. White bone stuck out from his slashed neck, his head flopped from side to side, and the blood continued to gush forth.[/spoiler]
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2 RepliesAt first I was feeling angry, but then I felt bad for the guy. We dont need to stoop to their level to achieve victory.
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I couldn't care less. Screw those sand people.
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Probably because this -blam!-ing brutality needs to stop in the east Doesn't matter if it's isis or not. This is not how you handle conflict
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Any loss of human life is sad. Each person is a individual human being who thinks and acts freely. No one deserves to be murded by another. When a person dies, they leave behind family, friends, and they become a memory. We should just stop this insanity. There are people dying of hunger, of disease that can be easily avoided, of abuse. Why cant humanity just ban together and celebrate the conjoined intelligence we can have. So many great things could happen, but we just cant grasp it just yet. No matter how hard we stretch, no matter how hard we try, we wont do it. Because everyone is more concerned of what is happening to focus on what can happen.
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The loss of any human life is a tragedy. Realistically it's a good chunk the US's fault that people get pushed into being in a terrorist group. To them they are freedom fighters. What else is a young man gobna do in that area? It's not exactly like there's alot of jobs.
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That's pretty barbaric, but I don't see why the media is trying to make us feel sorry for the terrorist. It's pretty disturbing that it's the police doing that too.
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It's pretty barbaric
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Edited by tjustie: 4/4/2015 5:10:01 AMThat's a pretty barbaric way to kill him, especially for policemen to be doing it. Frankly, it's disgusting. A bullet would have been much better. Those policemen and the mob are just as bad in my eyes.
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To be fair, sometimes we need perspective to remember that neither side is "innocent" in war. Both sides do terrible things, and whitewashing what happens is just begging for trouble. Different sides or not, every soldier is a person. And regardless of whose side it is, brutality like this isn't something that should be celebrated or written off.
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They don't need to stoop to their level of brutality
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Edited by Vgnut: 4/4/2015 1:23:27 AMSo reporting on what's going on = pulling at heart strings? It's a pretty objective article.
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I mean, sure, it's ISIS, but that's still -blam!-ed up. It's like children passive-aggressively smashing each other's toys. Neither will definitively be satisfied to be on the lower end, so somebody's going to end up burning down the house.