Hizbollah is suspicious of "authenticity" of Berg killing

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Hizbollah Slams Beheading of American as Un-Islamic
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group condemned Wednesday the beheading of an American hostage by Iraqi militants as an ugly crime that flouted the tenets of Islam.

"Hizbollah condemns this horrible act that has done very great harm to Islam and Muslims by this group that claims affiliation to the religion of mercy, compassion and humane principles," the Shi'ite Muslim group said in a statement.

An Islamist Web site Tuesday carried a video clip of the execution of the man who identified himself as Nick Berg, with a statement saying a group linked to al Qaeda did it in revenge for the abuse of Iraqis by U.S. troops.

Hizbollah said Berg's killing had diverted the world's gaze from an escalating furor over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by occupation soldiers.

"The timing of this act that overshadowed the scandal over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in occupation forces prisons is suspect timing that aims to serve the American administration and occupation forces in Iraq and present excuses and pretexts for their inhumane practices against Iraqi detainees."

The Syrian-backed group which the United States deems "terrorist" said the executors' behavior was closer to "the Pentagon school -- the school of killing and occupation and crimes and torture and immoral practices that were exposed by the great scandal in occupation prisons."

Washington blames Hizbollah, whose attacks forced Israeli troops to withdraw from south Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation, for 1980s suicide bombings against its embassy and Marines barracks and the abduction of Westerners in Beirut.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/040512/15/p/oyu8.html

Well, it appears that they're saying the exact same thing that
many of us here at DU suspected as well. I'm sure that the
international community as a whole thinks the same thing as well.
The timing was too much...

In my life, the only time I've ever heard of beheadings besides the guilottine or weird Jeffrey Dahlmer type nuts has been Islamic terrorists, militants, whatever you want to call them.

In Afghanistan, the mujahaddin did it to Russian prisoners, it's been done to hostages in the Philippines, and Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.

I read a book by an American jihaddi warrior who went twice to Chechnya before breaking with the terrorists in the mid-90's. He tried to become an informer, but claims the CIA screwed it up on him. He describes seeing jihaddi warriors executing Russian prisoners by cutting their heads off with knives and had a real intense part of his book where he said to himself, "run you fuckers," as he described the Russian soldiers just standing there in shock watching their friends get murdered while they waited their turn to be taken one at a time to be murdered in just this fashion.

Then of course there are the government executions in Saudi Arabia, again by having their heads chopped off.

Now Hizballah says chopping heads off doesn't seem true? Could that be any weirder?

I'll watch the Giants tonight and if Barry Bonds gets walked intentionally, I'll say "how can this be? I can't believe Barry Bonds got walked. This cannot be true."

The death squads that operated in Central America in the 80's used amputation and decapitation as a terror weapon against indigenous populations there. This was a page borrowed out of the School of the Americas playbook, technique which actually had it's origins in Nazi Germany. The atocities commited there went largely unnoticed and unremarked, but think Berg on a large population segment scale.