Todays news has all kinds of funny stories, in a deeply ironic way. QUOTE: Radical anti-government fighters in Syria mistakenly beheaded a wounded fellow rebel soldier after assuming he was a supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, according to an online statement from the radical fighters group. A separate online video showed a gruesome display of radical fighters holding what appeared to be the victims head. After the beheading earlier this week, the victim was determined to be Mohammed Fares, an anti-government fighter wounded in clashes against the Syrian Army earlier, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Thursday, an online statement from a spokesman for the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), whose fighters apparently carried out the beheading of Fares, called for forgiveness for the killers and asked for restraint and piety from anti-government supporters. We call on God to accept Mohammed Fares into his Kingdom and to forgive his brothers that sought to rid us of the enemies of God and our enemies, Omar Al-Qahatani said in Arabic in the ISIS statement. In a related (true) story, a study recently released by the American Civil Liberties Union demonstrated that approximately 7,000 legal executions have been conducted in the United States since 1900, of which approximately 25 were instances wrongful execution. But Ernest van den Haag, a professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University who is a longtime supporter of the death penalty, called the 25 wrongful executions (QUOTE), A very acceptable number. Oops. Sorry about that execution thing... well get it right next time. Absolutely.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:24:57 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015