April 23, 2005

IRAQ THUGS KILL PILOT ON VIDEO

In a video showing the murder of the sole survivor of a downed helicopter in Iraq, a gunman orders, "Carry out God's verdict," and his colleagues open fire, riddling the man with bullets as they shriek "Allahu akbar!" — or "God is great!"

The video was posted on an Internet forum used by Islamic fanatics and was accompanied by a written statement from a terror group identifying itself as the Islamic Army in Iraq.
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The video begins with an unseen cameraman running toward burning wreckage. Two bodies are visible, one of them severely charred.

"Look at that filth," someone says in Arabic.

The scene moves to tall grass, where Kostov, wearing a blue flight suit, is lying on his back, his head bloody.

"Stand up! Stand up!" the cameraman shouts to Kostov in English.

"I can't, it's broken. Give me a hand," he says in English, raising his hands for help. It appears the thugs help pull Kostov to his feet. The cameraman tells Kostov to step back.

Kostov then tries to walk, limping with his back to the guerrillas, who say something that makes him turn around. Kostov raises his hands as if gesturing for someone to stop.

"Carry out God's verdict," someone says, and the assassins shoot Kostov at point-blank range, continuing even after he falls.

Here we were worried about the "abuses" at Abu Ghraib while our enemies have no such concerns.
They had no mercy for this man, did not tend to him as wounded (even if an "enemy" wounded) and did not scruple to brutally take his life when he was unarmed, injured and defenseless...
God rest this "filth's" soul.
Lord knows these Islamists didn't.