It would be easy enough to find. Although a minority, there certainly are Shia in Palestine. And even more is the Hezbollah areas of Lebanon.
And I’m sure it would be easy to find Iraqi children cheering the death. Muqtada Al Sadr is probably as giddy as all get out at the news. Recently it appears that the Mahdi Army has taken a more active role in clearing out the foreign element in the country, even going insofar as to surround a town that was a foreign insurgent hot bed (I’ll try to dig up a cite on that).
I don’t know. Death doesn’t seem to be much of a deterent to these extremists. I would think the chance for glory would be a hell of a perk.
It’s a pretty big herd to thin out, we can’t win that way. We have to win over the citizens and cut off the underground support to these terrorist cells.
You should see the Arabic comments on Arabiya, an Arab news portal. Most run along the lines of: about fucking time. Some are more skeptic, and claim that he was a US puppet/tool all along. Others claim that he died a while ago, but announcing it was delayed to give PM Maliki a victory. Aside from those guys, everybody else is fucking happy. And the names of the commentators are Sunni and Shii, so, the cheering of his demise is not sectarianly restricted.
According to some reports I’ve read (in Arabic, no link), Zarqawi died ten minutes after the raid. Right after the missile(s) struck, Iraqi police followed by coalition forces stormed (what was left of) the house he was in. They found him, he died, and then they confirmed his identity and that of his comrades. So to those of you who wanted to know this: a) he suffered for a good ten minutes and b) he knew he was captured.
Jordanian intelligence seems to have played a significant part in this. (Zarqawi bombed three hotels in Amman last year), again according to Al Arabiya.
Heh, anyone who reads my posts knows how I feel about the war, but when I heard this news at about 5am on the BBC World Service, I actually said “woohoo!” out loud, and for a moment seriously considered getting up and turning the computer on to be first post on the board with this news. Fuck him, the murderous bastard, he needed killing.
I exactly share his sentiments. Anyone rejoicing over this should read it again and again until they realize the wisdom and compassion of Berg’s father.
I feel zero happiness about the death of Zaqawi. If I did, it would be purely for vengeful reasons because I don’t think this will ease terrorism one bit, and will probably have the opposite effect. As I’m not a vengeful man, nothing.
If you feel “joy” because you think this will stem terrorism, good for you. If you feel joy just because we killed a bad guy, I think you’re a sick fuck, and quite similar to Zaqawi on a pretty fundamental level.
I seen many similar statements from the families of victims in Northern Ireland. When you’ve felt that sort of pain some people just don’t want anyone else to feel it.
That’s an awful big stretch. If you really believe that, it’s safe to say that your opinion means exactly dick. In particular, your association between concepts is so fucking skewed, I wouldn’t know how to apply it even if I wanted to stop being a “sick fuck”.
With a few mouse clicks, I can see my son’s head ‘sawed’ from his shoulders. Only the flooding of his throat with his own blood silences his awful screams. You too can see my son beheaded, for it is available on the very internet you’re using now. There, for everyone to see, like an advertisement. The brutal* slaying of my son. The imposition of maximum suffering. And, hey, you know, that video and his screams will be the last living record of my son that I will ever know.
Please allow for my hatred.
*There isn’t quite any word which could be used to accurately portray the viciousness of that deed.
On a fundamental level, someone who rejoices in this for vengence’s sake and Zaqawi both believe that death is a justifiable outcome for actions that you deem reprehensible.
That’s about as fundamental as personal philosophy gets. And I think it makes you a sick fuck whether your justification is retribution for a stray US bomb in 1991, or a hijacked airliner in 2001.
I never know what to say in threads like these. What do you say in a thread about a dead fundamentalist terrorist?
“So long, screwy, see you in St. Louie?”
“Adios, dipshit, your cause is a failure, hope you like sucking Hitler’s cock in hell?”
I’m really out of my element here. Even when it’s a person this terrible (although there are few), I hate celebrating when somebody gets killed. I don’t feel like I’m celebrating right now, but I can’t be sad he’s dead either.
By the way, can we start a pool on how long it will take Ann Coulter to say that Mr. Berg is happy that his son is dead? I’ll give it 48 hours, just because Zarqawi’s death puts a lot on her plate.
Does anyone else wonder why men as misogynistic as fundamentalist Muslims would want 72 female anything ? If I treated women like they do, I’d be terrified to be outnumbered like that.