The True Horror of Iraq

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Thursday September 28, 2006 18:33

by Pray for Peace

A video tells a thousand words

Olin Eugene Armstrong, Jr., (June 5, 1953 - September 20, 2004) an American contractor working in Iraq for the construction firm Gulf Energy Company of the United Arab Emirates, was beheaded on September 20, 2004 by the Tawhid and Jihad, a militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is believed to have personally beheaded Armstrong. The following day, the group beheaded another hostage, American Jack Hensley, and threatened to kill their third hostage, Briton Kenneth Bigley, unless the United States met their demands to free all women prisoners in Iraqi jails.

Armstrong, also known by his nickname "Jack", grew up in the south-central Michigan community of Hillsdale, where he lived until 1990.

This is how he died on September 20, 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncdyBjd1Csw

The video shows five masked men in black standing behind the kneeling figure of Olin Eugene Armstrong clad in an orange jumpsuit.
The middle man presumably Al-Zaraqawi himself reads from a white sheet of paper and then produces a large knife and as the other men hold down his victim slowly slices his head from his body.

You must answer truthful - should the world abandon the Iraqi people to murderers like these who slaughter helpless captives like animals?

Since then thankfully Al-Zaraqawi gone his reward.
But many more deserve the same.

There is a better way than war but what other option can there be against such barbarity that bombs and slaughters

Everyday scores of Iraqis appear on the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere beheaded, shot or tortured with drills, electric shocks, mutilation, sodomisation, castration, evisceration etc etc.

Sunnis terrorists, Shia terrorists and indeed rogue members of the Iraqi police and army are surely responsible venting their sectarian hatred on the helpless and powerless.

It is the duty of the free world to enforce the democratic will of the Iraqi people who voted for parliamentary democracy in the elections of 2005.

Only the US is prepared to stay but look how their macho heavy handed soldiers have brutalised the Iraqi people too!

Why are there no French or German troops in Iraq?
Why have so many other European nations pulled out?
Why are there no Irish peacekeepers in Iraq?

Is it any wonder both the US and Al-Qaida and the so-called resistance do what they like?

Iraq must not slide into into worsebarbarity.

The people of Iraq deserve freedom, peace and prosperity.

What better tribute to the deaths of Armstrong and thousands upon thousands of Iraqis than to defeat these animals and save a nation from destruction.

Pray for Armstrongs soul and the souls of all the dead that they might find peace.