Purported Al Qaeda Video Shows Prisoners Burned Alive

[zrinkill]

Al Qaeda's latest display of terror has made its way onto the Internet, showing horrifying images of what appear to be prisoners in Iraq being doused with an inflammatory liquid and then burned alive.

The video, which appears to have been posted first on Google last December in an alleged anti-Al Qaeda Web film, shows five insurgents standing behind three blindfolded prisoners kneeling at the edge of a burning pit.


"And now that we have captured these scums who committed this dreadful crime, we will burn them with this fire," the Al Qaeda leader says in Arabic. "The same fire which they committed their crime with.


"And I swear by God almighty that, I swear by God almighty that we will have no mercy on them," he continues. "Allahuakbar, Allahuakbar."


As he speaks, two of the insurgents pour liquid on the blindfolded prisoners. Then they push the bound men into the pit, where they are engulfed in flames.


According to the summary — in Arabic and German — included in the nearly 15-minute video posted on Google, many of the clips were found in Diyala, Iraq. The makers of the film say that the originals were "passed to us by others."

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:mad: Proof once again that you cannot reason or negotiate with these animals.

[burmafrd]

And the Libs have the nerve to call our troops the criminals. They get all bent out of shape about Abu Ghraib and ignore beheadings and people being burned alive.

[Vintage]

And the Libs have the nerve to call our troops the criminals. They get all bent out of shape about Abu Ghraib and ignore beheadings and people being burned alive.

See. Here is the thing.

One does not justify the other.

Both are terrible. One does not justify the other or make it acceptable.

Its much simpler. Both are wrong.

[burmafrd]

No HERE is the thing. Abu Grahib was BAD but not terrible. What Al Queeda is doing is TERRIBLE. BUT then those moral relativitists always are claiming that one thing equals another. Making men strip down and pose for pictures and such is wrong but YOU are comparing THAT to burning people alive and beheading people. If YOU cannot see the difference then that is YOUR problem.

[Vintage]

No HERE is the thing. Abu Grahib was BAD but not terrible. What Al Queeda is doing is TERRIBLE. BUT then those moral relativitists always are claiming that one thing equals another. Making men strip down and pose for pictures and such is wrong but YOU are comparing THAT to burning people alive and beheading people. If YOU cannot see the difference then that is YOUR problem.

Except death did occur in Abu Ghraib.

As did torture.

As did rape.


You want to differentiate, fine.

Evil is evil. Both were evil.

[Cajuncowboy]

See. Here is the thing.

One does not justify the other.

Both are terrible. One does not justify the other or make it acceptable.

Its much simpler. Both are wrong.

When you deal with butchers, this is all they understand. These are the same pieces of crap who flew planes into our buildings unprovoked and murdered thousands of Americans.

This is why I have no problem with doing whatever is needed to get this scum to talk and stop more murders.

[heavyg]

You know I do not like the thought of this great nation stooping to the leval of these animals. However, trying to reason with them is not going to work. We are at war and sometimes when at war you have to do what is needed to win.

[vta]

You know I do not like the thought of this great nation stooping to the leval of these animals. However, trying to reason with them is not going to work. We are at war and sometimes when at war you have to do what is needed to win.

Well considering it's not policy to burn people alive, or bury them in mass graves, (which is what was recently discovered in Fallujah), I'd say our nation is far from stooping to their level.

There do exist unsavory individuals amongst our military, but on the whole, we've managed to keep a better standard of practice than our enemies.