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Iraq-Jordan
Decapitation: Execrable, but effective
2004-07-04
Given the choice, most people would opt for a straight bullet to the head rather than have it sawn off with a cutlass. However, personal preference has not figured highly in the modus operandi of Iraqi and Saudi insurgents for whom decapitation has become the method of choice for dispatching POW’s and collaborators.
(including their mouthpiece, Al Jazeera)
Until the shooting death in June of US soldier Keith Maupin, the insurgents had made a point of beheading their captives and disseminating the grisly scenes over the Internet. Most people would recoil at the mere thought but experts say that is precisely the aim.
In war, ascendancy in the horror stakes can be a major battlefield gain.
"It gives people an enormous feeling of their own power that they can threaten this fate to their opponents," believes Professor Ian Robins, a London-based traumatic stress psychologist who specialises in treating war prisoners.
Special place in hell for the terrorists and their mouthpiece.
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