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I do agree that what THAT GROUP of soldiers did was wrong, but you don't see US soldiers putting beheadings on the internet for everyone to see. One of the rules of war is to not torture your POWs, but Al Queda, or whoever just randomly takes a US citiczen or a citizen of another nation and beheads them on the internet. Now that is breaking the rules of war and that is so fucking wrong to begin with
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Since the notorious beheading videos were faked, could this move not be interpreted as simple propaganda for the Iraqi militants?
Granted, the victims were still killed, but not in the footage available on the internet - the casual sawing off of live heads with kitchen knives is so ridiculous it takes only a casual glance to realise the hostages have been killed under different (probably more "humane") circumstances.
One must conclude the makers of the videos - most of them appeared to have the same production team - wanted to convey a more barbaric and fearsome militia to the rest of the world.