I’ll try and minimize commentary on today’s grim news. Just two points. 1) They did in an active-duty Marine. Bad idea. 2) Anyone who calls this an “execution” deserves a a lesson in semantics. “Executions” have a mandate granted by a legitimate governing authority: either The State, or an Office of that State. As far as I’m concerned it’s murder. I’ll call it an execution if we find out that it was ordered by a Grand Ayatollah in Iran. But we know that’s not going to happen now, won’t it? Won’t it?
Link points:
- Chris Short is first on the news.
- Jeff Quinton aggregates.
- Doc Joyner wonders why Hassoun was called an infidel. Coz he’s an Uh-’murrican, that’s why.
- Jeralynn wants none of it.
- Mama Montezz rails on Karpinski.
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Marine Hostage Murdered?
Chris Short reports that: I just caught a news alert on Fox advising that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun has been killed. I’m trying to track down details at this time. UPDATE: Chris Short reports that Fox is now saying he…
Trackback by Backcountry Conservative — Jul 3, 2004 @ 3:54 pm
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BREAKINGNEWS: Iraqi militants behead U.S. Marine
(W/links to complete blogosphere coverage) As of 2004/07/03 11:17 PDT (GMT -7) Reuters has just broken the story that Iraqi militants have posted a written statement on their website that they have beheaded Lebanese-born U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali H…
Trackback by Dear Free World (politics, world affairs, debate) — Jul 3, 2004 @ 8:03 pm
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Just curious, what would you call the 10-20,000 deaths of Iraqis at the hands of US troops? Semantically speaking.
Comment by Jack Dawe — Jul 3, 2004 @ 8:05 pm
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Semantically speaking, of course, and this is a logical fallacy on my part, I suppose, for who do you have more sympathy?
Comment by OF Jay — Jul 3, 2004 @ 9:11 pm
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From my semantic perspective, I’d say there were about 20,001 murders.
Comment by Jack Dawe — Jul 4, 2004 @ 12:58 am
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OK. If you say so.
Comment by OF Jay — Jul 4, 2004 @ 1:20 am
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Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun’s Death is Still Unconfirmed
Continuing coverage from Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun Murdered Beheaded: 0730, 4 Jul 2004: Some conflicting reports this morning: From CNN: “Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told CNN’s Brent Sadler that reports of Hassoun’s death were rumors and ther…
Trackback by Our Life — Jul 4, 2004 @ 8:10 am
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Ansar al-Sunna Army Denies Murdering Wassef Ali Hassoun
Fox News is reporting: “An Islamic extremist group denied in a statement posted on its Web site Sunday that it had killed a U.S. Marine taken hostage last month. The denial by the Ansar al-Sunna Army left the fate of…
Trackback by Our Life — Jul 4, 2004 @ 10:28 am