Anyone else having nightmares about severed heads?

[JCMach1]

It seems like I can't get away from this since the Nick Berg thing happened...

Here is the latest from the city I live in:


Asian woman cut to pieces, killer held

Sharjah: Police have arrested a man suspected of murdering an Asian woman, cutting her body into pieces and dumping them in garbage bins.

The man, also Asian, was arrested 12 hours after the woman's decomposing head was found by the municipality's garbage collectors. Brig. Saleh Ali Al Muttawa, Director General of Sharjah Police, said the suspect confessed.

The police, however, did not divulge the names of the victim and the suspect. According to Brig Al Muttawa, the suspect said he killed the woman because she had insulted Islam.

Civic workers alerted authorities when they found a woman's head in a bin during a dawn collection...

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/Nation2.asp?ArticleID=124107


This is a horrible case... all of this is happening too close to home for me... and despite being as safe as you can be, it is giving me nightmares.

I am very ready for summer vacation in the US!!!!

Anyone else having nightmares about all the severed heads recently?

[Divernan]

1. I believe many children are extremely upset by beheadings.

This is a legitimate "How do we explain this to the CHILDREN!?!" question for parents, as opposed to the hand-wringing indignations of the neocon Clinton-haters horrified that their children would learn of the existence of consensual oral sex between adults. On the issues of beheadings, not to mention the widely published photos of torture of helpless prisoners by young American soldiers, parents have a serious challenge to discuss this with and explain to their kids - especially if they have a wide age range among their kids. I hope that with their older kids, parents can explain the cause and effect relation between an attack on the US by largely Saudi terrorists, and Bush's familial hatred of Iraq twisting the US response into an attack on Iraq; how Bush's botched war planning & execution and his greed and avarice on behalf of his wealthy corporate supporters have created this ongoing hellhole which has attracted terrorists to Iraq and created many more terrorists; and how by rejecting international conventions on rules of war and engagement, Bush has opened the floodgates of hell for treatment of US soldiers and citizens. On reflection, this explanation will do little to quell kids' nightmares. The only solution is to throw Bush out of office, and then we can all begin to sleep better.

[Crewleader]

2. I am very glad you & your family are coming home to the USA!

As you know I live in Port St. John not too far from where Johnson's son and his family lives...they now have put black ribbons up and friends and neighbors are dropping off flags and flowers. A memorial for Johnson in their front yard, people expressing their deepest sympathies to the family, neighbors and friends waiting their arrival back home.

Johnson's son was first interview locally saying is father didn't deserve this, just doing his job...he also added that Lockheed Martin even cut his Dad's pay by 10% the last year, definitely no protection added with that. Boy when you hear that, you are a number for these companies...there's no security for any American in Saudi...their record on capturing any of them isn't so good, no matter what amount of pay and benefits that go with it, it's not worth the safety of you and your family. I bet alot of Americans will leave.

The prince and their monarchy family are deep in the pockets of both parties...specially Bush & Cheney, as it was so easy to let Bin Ladens' brother leave Orlando so shortly after 9/11 without any guestioning.

I wouldn't be comfortable there at all. Where you are, you got to be careful as well, there's danger as you see in this poor woman's case.
You'll have alot on your plate in decisions and these nightmares is a sure sign of the stress you are feeling.
You and your family are in my prays. :hug:

[JCMach1]

4. Just for vacation

All the stuff in the KSA is scary, but it hasn't affected anything here.

But know, we are AS SAFE as you can be here with our security. Also, we are less than a kilometer from a military base.

[izzie]

3. No I spent years reading the history or the Tudor's

They seemed to have spent 100 years of putting heads on London Bridge or chopping up some one of the wrong beliefs.Then we have the French and their do-loop into the people running things.