On executions, beheadings, and other propaganda operations

[clem_c_rock]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112004Chin/112004chin.html

"The recent communiqué from the Mujaahideen has exposed the British insurance policy and has denied any JTJ involvement in the kidnapping. The kidnapping will send the message to the British public that the Iraqi resistance is comprised of monsters and serial murderers—and there can be no response other than wiping them from the face of the earth—thereby prolonging the redeployment of the British troops in the region near Baghdad."

Indeed, the kidnapping and execution of Hassan make no sense, except as an intelligence operation by US, British or US-allied operatives:

"But why would the resistance kidnap somebody who has provided humanitarian assistance to the people of Iraq for 25 years? Is it possible the Iraqi resistance wants to deny the Iraqi people humanitarian assistance? Of course not. In America, the corporate media answers the above question every day—the Iraqi resistance is fanatical, murderous, nothing more than a loose confederation of terrorists, criminals, Islamic madmen, demented sadists who blow up car bombs in crowded market squares and kill women and children, their own neighbors. However, there is another possible explanation: the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan is part of a counterinsurgency operation devised to make the resistance look bad and thus turn world opinion against it."

[DireStrike]

1. I never even thought of that.

And I usually catch this sort of double agent crap.

Hrm.

[bemildred]

2. Many of us thought it odd. I'm still wondering what happened to her. nt

[Squeech]

3. I did think of that

But I'm not sure it matters. By now I suspect attitudes have hardened to the point where any Westerner is fair game, no matter how helpful (s)he might have been in the past. Meanwhile, we shoot their wounded in their holy places. This war has spawned monsters on all sides.