Blatchford, Sanitizing atrocity serves only Taliban's interests

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Sanitizing atrocity serves only Taliban's interest

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD

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Globe and Mail Update


February 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM EST

Poor Piotr Stanczak. He's the Polish geologist who after four months of being held hostage was killed in the most ghastly way by a Pakistan branch of the Taliban over the weekend.

Well, actually, to say he was killed in a bestial manner is putting it a tad mildly. Mr. Stanczak had his head cut off by a hooded man hacking away with a knife, while two other brave, armed-to-the-teeth hooded men watched over the whole business. Minutes before, one of those three men had initiated a "conversation" with Mr. Stanczak with a cheery, "Hi. How are you?"

The beheading part of the video, which was released first to representatives of news organizations with offices in northwest Pakistan and then to a larger group of news agencies, isn't widely available, if at all, on the Web. I couldn't find it, nor could the clever head of The Globe's research library. What was available was only the video of the last five minutes of Mr. Stanczak's life, wherein he engaged in the gunpoint chat with his captors. Asked at one point how he found the Pakistani people, he pronounced them, in his accented English, "very good ... very peace people."

Then he had his head cut off by some of them.

 

[OldSolduer]

I read somewhere yesterday that the Polish government is out for blood on this one. That has not been widely reported.
Perhaps if a few more of our politicians publicly stated that if any Canadians were to be beheaded , the perpetrators would be hunted down and taken care of, this kind of garbage would stop.

Don't expect any Canadian politician to state this publicly however.