Sunday, May 07, 2006

Evil Incarnate-UPDATED

UPDATE
****Jawa Report Exclusive****
A gruesome beheading video delivered to the Sunday Times purporting to be of slain journalist Atwar Bahjat is a hoax. On Sunday, May 7th, the Times reported that they had received a low-quality video of Atwar Bahjat being slowly beheaded. That video is now being circulated on the internet as the "Atwar Bahjat" beheading video.

The Jawa Report can reveal that the Times and Halal Jabar, the author of the article, are victims of a hoax. The video actually shows the gruesome murder of a Nepalese man by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq from August of 2004. The man was one of 12 victims executed by the terrorist organization--the other 11 were shot.



For those that wonder why we fight and why we must win I hope this will clear the fog for you a little bit, This was an act of pure evil and one of the multitude of reasons why we as a society and a Country must do everything in our power to defeat these animals.

Anyone who reads or hears of these atrocities and still say that we as a Country must demand a retreat from the fight from our elected officials are so out of touch with reality that I personaly don't think there is any help for them, But that is just my opinion.


The Sunday Times - World: Part of me died when I saw this cruel killingNobody but her killers knew just how much she had suffered until a film showing her death on February 22 at the hands of two musclebound men in military uniforms emerged last week. Her family’s worst fears of what might have happened have been far exceeded by the reality.

Bahjat was abducted after making three live broadcasts from the edge of her native city of Samarra on the day its golden-domed Shi’ite mosque was blown up, allegedly by Sunni terrorists.

Roadblocks prevented her from entering the city and her anxiety was obvious to everyone who saw her final report. Night was falling and tensions were high.

Two men drove up in a pick-up truck, asking for her. She appealed to a small crowd that had gathered around her crew but nobody was willing to help her. It was reported at the time that she had been shot dead with her cameraman and sound man.

We now know that it was not that swift for Bahjat. First she was stripped to the waist, a humiliation for any woman but particularly so for a pious Muslim who concealed her hair, arms and legs from men other than her father and brother.

Then her arms were bound behind her back. A golden locket in the shape of Iraq that became her glittering trademark in front of the television cameras must have been removed at some point — it is nowhere to be seen in the grainy film, which was made by someone who pointed a mobile phone at her as she lay on a patch of earth in mortal terror.

By the time filming begins, the condemned woman has been blindfolded with a white bandage.

It is stained with blood that trickles from a wound on the left side of her head. She is moaning, although whether from the pain of what has already been done to her or from the fear of what is about to be inflicted is unclear.

Just as Bahjat bore witness to countless atrocities that she covered for her television station, Al-Arabiya, during Iraq’s descent into sectarian conflict, so the recording of her execution embodies the depths of the country’s depravity after three years of war.

A large man dressed in military fatigues, boots and cap approaches from behind and covers her mouth with his left hand. In his right hand, he clutches a large knife with a black handle and an 8in blade. He proceeds to cut her throat from the middle, slicing from side to side.

Her cries — “Ah, ah, ah” — can be heard above the “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) intoned by the holder of the mobile phone.

Even then, there is no quick release for Bahjat. Her executioner suddenly stands up, his job only half done. A second man in a dark T-shirt and camouflage trousers places his right khaki boot on her abdomen and pushes down hard eight times, forcing a rush of blood from her wounds as she moves her head from right to left.

Only now does the executioner return to finish the task. He hacks off her head and drops it to the ground, then picks it up again and perches it on her bare chest so that it faces the film-maker in a grotesque parody of one of her pieces to camera.

The voice of one of the Arab world’s most highly regarded and outspoken journalists has been silenced. She was 30.


Via MVRC Who got it via The Jawa Report

3 comments:

Louie said...

But Rick, you can't possibly believe that this is an evil act. These are freedom fighters, they couldn't really be that bad! This has got to be fabricated or they mixed up this terrorist with one of our own soldiers. I just can't believe that these loving people could do something this dispicable!

/sarcasm/

Unknown said...

I accidentally watched a beheading video, Nick Berg actually. Someone sent it to me, and I opened it, and started watching... tried to close it out, and it wouldn't close.

So, I ended up watching it. I threw up a little, and felt like ice was running in my blood, over the sheer disgusting savagery involved. The sounds,Oh, lord the sound.... I turned off the speakers then.

It's been months, but I cannot, and probably never will have that image leave my head. Ever. It will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Religion of peace my *ss.

Kell said...

As Kathy Griffin says:

"They're just peaceful farmers"