2 Teachers Beheaded In Front Of Students In Baghdad

[cali]

I don't care how much they hate the occupation, there's no excuse for beheading teachers in front of students. Well, there's no excuse for beheading people, period, but this is so abhorent. Yes, I know such events are the direct result of the invasion and occupation, but I still don't think that serves as any kind of excuse for anyone who would do such a thing. This is not only a civil war, it's one that grows uglier with every passing day.

BAGHDAD, April 19 (Reuters) - Separate groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad on Wednesday and beheaded two teachers in front of their students, the Ministry of State for National Security said.

"Two terrorist groups beheaded two teachers in front of their students in the Amna and Shaheed Hamdi primary schools in Shaab district in Baghdad," a ministry statement said.

A ministry official said he believed the attacks were aimed at: "intimidating pupils and disrupting learning."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO943550.htm

[jackbourassa]

1. cali, the civil war has nothing to do with the occupation...

Just as it has nothing to do with al Qaeda and/or loyality to Saddam. It has to do with the centuries old hatred between the Shias and the Sunnis and each denominations quest for domination over the other.

[cali]

2. I'm aware

of the long conflict between Sunnis and Shi'as, but I do think Saddam stoked those long held enmities with his oppression of the Shiites, and the U.S. created conditions that led to those enmities exploding. All of that aside, I cannot understand, in the slightest, those who would do such a thing. I suppose they're just trying to totally disrupt Iraqi life. I don't use the word evil often, but I'd apply it in this case.

[TheBaldyMan]

3. I think it has everything to do with Wahabbi funded foreigners and their

locally recruited fanatics.

The blame still lies squarely with the Bush regime bungling this from day one.

A needless war followed by a botched occupation resulted in a power vacuum filled by the people his war has enriched.

Yes, with higher oil prices the buying power of Saudi Quran-thumpers increases.

[cali]

4. Putting the blame

squarely on bushco doesn't in any way mitigate the actions of those who perpetrated these heinous crimes.

[TheBaldyMan]

5. I'm not excusing their actions, I'm pointing out who this outrage is

enabled by.

Recently I saw a video report by Sean Ward an Australian reporter who has been working in Baghdad for the last 3 years, he said there was a development for the worst when the Ba'athists ran out of money and were replaced by extremist fundies in Baghdad and Fallujah. The new guys have an almost bottomless purse thanks to the sky-rocketing oil price and their financiers closeness to the Saudi regime and therefore the Bush regime. Following the money only works when it doesn't lead to the Saudi Royal family and their close associates (the 'good' Binladdins).

Remember that the outrages have two or three prime suspects, the MEK, the 'Zarqawi' project (aka Al-Qaida in Iraq) or the Iraqi recruits of the shadowy Wahabbi funded jihadis.

In short they are supported by the only parties with money in Iraq today, the Saudis or the Americans. And the higher the price of oil goes the more influence the Saudis can buy.

[newportdadde]

6. But without those rebuilt schools there would be no teachers to behead!

Why must the liberal media always play only negative stores?