Robert Hinkley at Semiskimmed reminds us of another beheading this year.
Fabrizio Quattrocchi was murdered by his terrorist captors but instead of sitting quietly in the chair, he tried to rip off his hood, he stood up and shouted: “'now I'll show you how an Italian dies.”
According to the BBC article:
Al-Jazeera also said it had video footage of Mr Quattrocchi's death, but would not broadcast it, because it was “too gruesome”.
Yeah - gruesome… More likely, it didn't fit in with their plan to show Mr. Quattrocchi walking meekly to his death with them as the victors. He showed defiance and the PR value of this was nill for the Islamofascist terrorists…
Posted by DaveH at May 12, 2004 07:26 PMI think that they shot the italian in the neck, though ...
Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at May 13, 2004 07:31 PMUnfortunately, I wonder if Nick Berg's captors watched that and decided to keep his hands tied behind his back and not give him a chance to say anything when he knew what was going to happen.
What a pencil-dicked monster it takes to do that.
Posted by: McClane at May 12, 2004 08:43 PM