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| Powell: Arab world should be more outraged |
| 2004-05-16 |
| Sure, and hillbillies want to be known as "sons of the soil" but it ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. ’No excuse for silence’ after American’s beheading Sunday, May 16, 2004 Posted: 12:44 PM EDT (1644 GMT) DEAD SEA RESORT, Jordan (CNN) -- The Arab world should be showing "a higher level of outrage" over the death of an American businessman whose beheading was posted on an Islamist Web site last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. "There’s no excuse for silence on this kind of murder," Powell told NBC’s "Meet the Press." "I would like to have seen a much higher level of outrage throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world, to this murder," he said. "What we saw with this horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible murder should be deplored throughout the Arab world." Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates condemned the killing of Nicholas Berg, 26, who made his second trip to Iraq in March to work on communication towers. His family said they last heard from him on April 9, and they notified the State Department he was missing four days later. Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League, said Sunday that "decent people" cannot tolerate such treatment. "We are against such acts of extreme violence and despicable actions towards human beings," he said on CNN’s "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." Powell said that there was "no comparison" between Berg’s killing and the revelation of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers. "All this kind of behavior is unacceptable in the modern world," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "Torture of any kind is unacceptable." "Arab leaders need to look at what’s happening in their own societies," he added. "They need to reform their own societies. Torture is torture is torture. It is unacceptable. It is not the way you treat human beings." In the video posted Tuesday on an Islamist Web site, Berg is shown sitting in an orange jumpsuit in front of five armed, hooded men. A man standing behind him reads a statement, and Berg is then pushed to the floor. The man who read the statement pulls out a machete-like knife and decapitates him. One of the captors then holds up the severed head to the camera. Berg’s body was found May 8 in Baghdad. The CIA has said there was "a high probability" that the killer was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of an Islamist terrorist group that the United States says has close ties to Osama bin Laden. Agents made their determination by analyzing the video and the voice of the man who read the statement. Linguists who listened to the tape questioned that conclusion, saying the speaker does not have a Jordanian accent. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #8 Dont forget the amazing Lack of outrage by our own media! ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/BBC/etc all approved the murder of Burg as well. Just look at how quickly they buried it (or switch the coverage to those watching the video...) in their hatred Bush treachery. They refuse to acknowlege the link between their insane butt-farking of the dead Prison story in order to 'blame Bush' and the murder. BTW: Has Kerry and Kennedy shown any outrage? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-17 12:12:19 AM |
| #7 The Arab world should be showing "a higher level of outrage" over the death of an American businessman whose beheading was posted on an Islamist Web site last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. And this exercise by Mr. Powell in pointing this out achieves.....? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-16 11:55:49 PM |
| #6 " ...Pulls out a machete-like knife and decapitates him." I don't think so, what he pulled out was a butcher knife and he slowly sawed Berg's head off while having some trouble cutting through the cervical vertebrae. Decapitation with a machete would have been cleaner and quicker. Disgusting act and irresponsible reporting. |
| Posted by: Don 2004-05-16 6:44:55 PM |
| #5 Interesting! Powell, the supposed Dove, telling it like it is. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-05-16 6:44:50 PM |
| #4 Venomous Kate has some interesting thoughts on the Berg video; it's worth taking a look. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-16 6:31:34 PM |
| #3 Robert - That's because they are totally freaking nuts. And professional hypocrites. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-16 6:28:06 PM |
| #2 Of course they approve of it. If they didn't, the jihadis would be scrounging for cash and running for their lives. Instead, all we see from the Arab world is outrage when a jihadi breaks a nail while in custody of the civilized world, and puzzled looks when we ask them to condemn murders committed in Islam's name. Of course, if you question Islam's commitment to "peace" based on those same murders, they go totally freaking nuts. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-16 6:19:29 PM |
| #1 The Arab world isn't outraged because somehow it must approve of Berg's death. What the Arab world doesn't understand is that if we fail to succeed, their society is going to tear itself apart. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-16 6:13:10 PM |