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Date Posted: 19:16:17 11/05/04 Fri
Author: Joe
Subject: Re: Al Jazeera and beheadings becoming fashionable
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Re: Al Jazeera and the "holy warriors"" on 11:44:21 11/05/04 Fri

In fact, recent beheadings in the Haiti chaos, in Thailand and the throat cutting of an already dead Theo Van Gogh seem to have been "inspired" by what has been done to hostages on video in Iraq, video made available all over the Arab world by Al Jazeera.

>I've read that the kidnappers and beheaders,
>especially the beheaders, are largely seen as "holy
>warriors." And the videos of beheadings are actually
>recruiting tools. The videos of the beheadings
>apparently get some young Muslim males all fired up to
>join the "holy war."

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