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From the Associated Press:

The militant group led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi posted a gruesome video on a Web site Monday showing the decapitation of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong and said a second hostage - either an American or a Briton - would be killed in 24 hours.

"Now, you have people who love death just like you love life. Killing for the sake of God is their best wish, getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our lord."

…The militant on the video called President Bush "a dog" and addressed him, saying, "Now, you have people who love death just like you love life. Killing for the sake of God is their best wish, getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our lord."

("Video on Web site shows beheading of man said to be American hostage', Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, September 20, 2004.)

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ZONE OF SILENCE

Truth is a terrible thing. We should not share with anyone more than a given person is able to bear. Above all, we should not reveal our own truth, should not force anyone to accept it, to dispose anyone to know things that are beyond human strength.
-ZYGMUNT MYCIELSKI, A QUASI-DIARY

It didn’t happen that way.
Yet no one dares to tell how it did happen.
I am old enough to remember,
and yet like others I repeat the socially acceptable words,
for I do not feel authorized
to reveal a truth too cruel for the human heart.

--Czeslaw Milosz

Labels: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda, Al-Qa'idah, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaida, Czeslaw Milosz, Eugene Armstrong, George W. Bush, hostages