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2009-06-07 -Lurid Crime Tales-

He wept, hands bound. Then I heard two shots

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Posted by ryuge 2009-06-07 06:38|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1 The men's ordeal had begun in January when they were captured with other tourists from Germany and Switzerland after setting out for a nomadic cultural festival near the lawless border between Niger and Mali.

Idiots.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-06-07 08:47|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-06-07 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Idiots.

It's not idiotic to take risks in life and not only restrict your movements according to where you fear terrorists. Reckless, maybe, but not by any means necessarily idiotic. The only idiots in this story are the Islamist retards themselves and the Governments who are prepared to fund and encourage their peurile antics by cowing to their demands and paying ransoms.

Posted by Bulldog 2009-06-07 09:41|| 2009-06-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 And the worst thing you can do if taken hostage is to do the expected. Instead, you have to focus on creating a psychology in them that you are either worth more alive, or that it might be dangerous for them to kill you.

By this latter I mean that such primitives are deeply superstitious, and very susceptible to carefully crafted "magic", that is not imminently threatening, but could be if they weren't careful.

Optimally, you can pull a variant of the "Scheherazade" trick, weaving some b.s. tale that they have to know the ending of, or they are going to get eaten by "it".

It helps if you give them "secret knowledge" from their own belief system.

Of course, if you get the chance to stick their own knife in them at any point, take it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-06-07 11:39|| 2009-06-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Choosing not to vacation in Niger is not exactly a 'restriction of my movements', it's a logical choice.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-06-07 12:10|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-06-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting is it not Parabellum, with a few exception, how often it is folks educated in the....soft disciplines who find themselves in these encampments?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-07 12:19|| 2009-06-07 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not idiotic to take risks in life...

That's debatable. These people took a risk that was beyond foolish. For what? Adventure? The trip they took had a very high probability of being a disaster, in my book that equates to idiotic.

I applaud whomever decided not to give in to their kidnappers demands. I feel little sympathy for Mr. Dyer, his family and loved ones on the other hand I feel quite bad for. I have no doubt that Mr. Dyer and his companions exhibit the same mentality as what we call "Liberals" here, the Kumbaya sort.

I hope the survivors go home with a lesson, and spread that lesson. Unfortunately like most Liberals they are probably unteachable.

As for Islam, it is way past time to make a few examples of our own. They want jihad, then we should give it to them. Unrestrained, unrestricted and violent in the extreme. It is the only way.

The Koran says, leaders of Islam have said, that there can be no accommodation between Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb. We should take them at their word and lay waste to them. I see no upside in deluding ourselves by saying we're better than that, and we have to be above that. BS! That is suicidal.

I say slaughter them until they beg for mercy, then slaughter them some more. When their population numbers become manageable, quarantine them in their crap holes, bulldoze their Mosque's, force their children into non-religious structured schools and control their existence. For as many generations as it takes to extinguish Islam.

Posted by Flater White1380 2009-06-07 13:05|| 2009-06-07 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them
George S. Patton.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-06-07 14:50|| 2009-06-07 14:50|| Front Page Top

#8 great qoute Deacon.

Posted by Elmusosing Wittlesbach aka Broadhead6 2009-06-07 15:11|| 2009-06-07 15:11|| Front Page Top

#9 "any westerner caught venturing into the Sahara would die. "They will see that we are jihadists, envoys of God, and their deaths will be the fault of their governments and their policies," he said."

Poison the wells. Salt the land. Napalm. Over any village associated with that guy. He wants misery and loss of life, I say we give it to him. Tell the locals:

Blame the Islamists - we left you alone until they started murdering. WHen you fore them to stop, then we will stop. Until then, your lands will not be allowed to bear food and you will be without drinkable water, and we will hunt and destroy any human settlements in the region that associate with him and his murdering band.

It worked before, on the shores of Tripoli.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-07 16:29|| 2009-06-07 16:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Above all - find and execute this cleric and his family" kidnappers received permission from an Islamic cleric to kill Kloiber

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-07 16:30|| 2009-06-07 16:30|| Front Page Top

#11 "When ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks."

Strange, that didn't get mentioned in the Cairo speech

Posted by European Conservative 2009-06-07 18:23|| 2009-06-07 18:23|| Front Page Top

#12 European Conservative,our empty suit, Bambi, has his head stuck so far up his a$$, he will never see daylight.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-06-07 18:50|| 2009-06-07 18:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Flater and OS have it right.

Our governments will never do it.

Is there a time when western civilians will start doing this?

Posted by Hellfish 2009-06-07 19:27|| 2009-06-07 19:27|| Front Page Top

#14 The Australian Outback sounds more fun.

Posted by Lumpy Angaith3743 2009-06-07 19:40|| 2009-06-07 19:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually it is.
Australian Aborigines do not kill tourists (although feeding them big maggots... uh well)

Posted by European Conservative 2009-06-07 20:12|| 2009-06-07 20:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Strange, that didn't get mentioned in the Cairo speech

No need to mention it. It's just assumed.

Posted by ed 2009-06-07 20:13|| 2009-06-07 20:13|| Front Page Top

#17 I feel little sympathy for Mr. Dyer, his family and loved ones on the other hand I feel quite bad for. I have no doubt that Mr. Dyer and his companions exhibit the same mentality as what we call "Liberals" here, the Kumbaya sort.

Ditto here. My sympathy is reserved for the folks in Special Ops who may now be called upon to risk their lives in order to get some payback.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-06-07 20:29|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-06-07 20:29|| Front Page Top

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