I received the link which has the horrible disgusting video. I did not want to watch the gruesome scene, and did not. And no, I will not post the link. A friend of mine who watched it was disturbed for hours later. I listened to the speech read by that man (whose voice sounded like Abu Mus`ab Az-Zarqawi’s voice on that previous audio tape that I wrote about below) and the Arabic and sentence structure and delivery was also close to that previous speech. When it reached the point when he was about to behead his victim, I turned the other way, and heard the voices and noises. You could hear death, I learned. You really could hear death. I heard it. I told my friend that the young American (the age of my students in California) stayed very strong and well-composed throughout given the circumstances. He told me that he (the victim) did not know what was coming. He told me (having watched the actual scene) that when the screaming of Allahu Akbar (God is Greater) began, the guy turned around (although he was tied around the hands and feet) only to be butchered by that masked murderer kook, whoever he is. The speech was your typical fanatical kooky fundamentalist statements that one associates with Al-Qa`idah and like-minded groups. He (the speaker) did not miss the opportunity to share his misogyny, along with his hatred, with the audience. He was attacking Muslim clerics (presumably those who do not share the kooky Ben Ladenite agenda) as “women-like who wail and weep” without joining their struggle. The young victim was dressed in an orange suit, and my friend thought it was symbolically similar to the orange suits that are worn by inmates at Guantanamo. It sounded as if there were other hostages in the room; I heard noises and screams (one was distinctively female) and that made the whole scene so nightmarish for the viewer, or even the listener in my case. Of this I am certain: “Bush” wanted a war between “us and them” , and “Bin Laden” wanted a war between “us and them” and they both got what they wanted, and for that we all suffer, and will suffer. Of this I am certain: we have entered a perpetual path of revenge, counter-revenge, wars, and counter-wars, and more revenge and counter-revenge, and on and on and on.
* “Bush” refers not to the man necessarily but to the phenomenon of the ruling ideology at the helm of the US Empire.
* “Bin Laden” refers not to the man necessarily but to the phenomenon of kooky Islamic fundamentalist militancy represented by Al-Qa`idah and similar groups.