Militants just executed an Italian hostage

[American]

Yes, these people have such rich tradition and are so cultured. When is the world going to get tired of these idiots?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/italy_iraq

 

[EverFresh]

apparently no time soon

 

[Brazil4Worldcup2002]

shit happens

 

[DarrylParsons]

Various perspectives on shit happening

 

[Oceans11]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by American:
Yes, these people have such rich tradition and are so cultured. When is the world going to get tired of these idiots?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Theres plenty of Arabs that think exactly the same thing about Americans in the middle east.

 

[Brazil4Worldcup2002]

I think the popular culture of American consumerism (and mass production) is pretty low in the list of cultural things.

 

[Oceans11]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Darryl Parsons:
http://home.earthlink.net/~sidebrnz/compare.html<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[American]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by A2345exxx:
shit happens<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Maybe some shit will happen to you.

 

[Brazil4Worldcup2002]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Maybe some shit will happen to you. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

maybe.

 

[dickman]

Too bad that we can't execute them like they do to us.

 

[xpanda]

Has anybody here ever stumbled upon a good link to the Geneva Accords? I'm wondering what level of resistance is deemed acceptable in an occupied country (I already know murder isn't one of them.)

Further, do civilian hostages count as POWs with the same protections?

 

[dickman]

Good question. I know that if a US or British soldier would execute Iraqui insurgents like they are doing to their hostages, they would be in legal trouble for violating their human rights. My best guess that a hostage has the same protection.

 

[UncleMoneybags]

xpanda,

I found this site through google Geneva

It is rather lengthy and I didn't read it all but I gather that the U.S. troops can take measures to ensure order but not kill without cause.

 

[PatPatriot]

Iraq hostage died like hero, Italy says
Reuters ^ | 4/15/04



ROME, April 15 (Reuters) - An Italian hostage shot dead in Iraq tried to look his killers in the eye and died like a hero, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Thursday.
Frattini told reporters that Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four Italian security guards abducted outside Baghdad, was hooded when his kidnappers put a gun to his head.

"When the murderers were pointing a pistol at him, this man tried to take off his hood and shouted: 'Now I'm going to show you how an Italian dies'. And they killed him," Frattini said.

"He died a hero."

Quattrocchi's kidnappers handed over a tape of the killing to the Arab news channel al Jazeera which refused to broadcast the scene, saying it was too bloody. However, an Italian diplomat viewed the tape and relayed the details to Rome.

Quattrocchi left for Iraq in November to work as a security guard. The 36-year-old, who was specially trained to guard oil pipelines, was earning up to 10,000 euros ($12,500) a month and saving to buy a house with his fiancee, Italian media said.

But until his kidnapping, his mother thought the former baker was working in Kosovo.

His kidnappers, a previously unheard of group, threatened to kill the other three Italian hostages if Italy does not withdraw its troops from Iraq and its support from the United States.

Rome has rejected bowing to such pressure.

 

[American]

Originally posted by Patriot:
ROME, April 15 (Reuters) -

"When the murderers were pointing a pistol at him, this man tried to take off his hood and shouted: 'Now I'm going to show you how an Italian dies'. And they killed him," Frattini said.

"He died a hero."


His QUOTE]

God bless him, Patriot. I salute that brave young man. One of the reasons his scumbag murderers put a hood on him, is when they looked this Italian gentleman in the eye, it made them realize how truly inferior they are genetically and culturally. These Muslims' level of conscienceness is barely above that of wild animals. They deserve to be slaughtered as such.

Patriot, and everyone else, I'd like you to give this Italian friend a salute. He'll get it and he'll appreciate it.

Those f*cking bastards. I'd like to rob and loot and desecrate their f*cking graves and then urinate on their rotting corpses afterward.

[This message was edited by American on April 16, 2004 at 01:42 AM.]

 

[PatPatriot]

American,I tear up when I read stories like this.What a man of courage.Hopefully and I know it will, make the blood boil of the Italian people...defying those scummy fxcks in the face of death while tied up like an animal...now thats a martyr.

 

[xpanda]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Uncle Moneybags:
xpanda,

I found this site through google http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm

It is rather lengthy and I didn't read it all but I gather that the U.S. troops can take measures to ensure order but not kill without cause.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Merci beaucoup ... but I was looking at it from the opposite perspective. I'm wondering what rights the resistance has in these cases. I know they can't murder hostages, but I'm wondering if the taking of hostages in the first place is deemed lawful. But thanks for the link ... I'll still use it.

 

[xpanda]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by American:
One of the reasons his scumbag murderers put a hood on him, is when they looked this Italian gentleman in the eye, it made them realize how truly inferior they are genetically and culturally. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Seriously, what the **** is wrong with you?