Beheaded – Taleban Said To Have Released Video of Polish Engineer Being Killed
February 9, 2009 by national
Filed under World Report
A video delivered to media outlets appears to show Pakistani militants beheading a kidnapped Polish engineer, underscoring security fears in the Muslim nation ahead of a debut visit Monday by a newly appointed Obama administration envoy.
Pakistan has witnessed several attacks on foreigners in recent months as its overall security has deteriorated amid a growing Al Qaeda and Taliban-led insurgency. In early February, an American U.N. worker was abducted in the southwestern city of Quetta, purportedly by separatists.
The seven-minute video appears to show the Polish hostage, Piotr Stanczak, sitting on the floor flanked by two masked men. Off camera, a militant briefly engages him in conversation before three others behead him. One of the hooded men then addresses the camera, blaming Pakistan for the killing for not agreeing to their demands to release Taliban prisoners.
If confirmed, Stanczak’s death would appear to be the first killing of a Western hostage in Pakistan since U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002.
The video was given to an Associated Press reporter Sunday in northwestern Pakistan on a flash drive by an intermediary who said he obtained it from the Taliban. The AP has elected not to distribute the images. Other international media also reported receiving or viewing footage of the killing.
Jacek Cichocki, Polish minister for security services, said he saw the full video and in his opinion “that is the Pole and the film is authentic.”
“I can say that watching the film last night, it is a terrible thing,” he told Poland’s TVN24 television, adding final confirmation would have to wait until diplomatic and consular services receive the body.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489805,00.html
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These videos should be shown on televised news so the American people may see what the Taliban and Al Qaeda are really like. The media is to soft in talking about these groups and understate the threat of these groups and governments that harbor or support them.
If you notice, the militants wear hoods and cover their faces. This is because they are afraid. They have to stoop to lowlife actions because they fear the mighty USA. They know they cannot fight like real men so they hide in caves and use IED’s. The bottom line is that the terrorists have a big yellow stripe down their backs and they fight like women. Payback is coming to a cave near … YOU!
This is so awful. What an utterly vile and horrific thing to do to a decent educated human being. My heart goes out to this poor man’s family and may God rest his soul. It’s so hard to comprehend how another so called human can do this. I guess they get plenty of practise when they slaughter animals for their halal meat, as it appears they use the same technique. Utterly disgusting. I agree with KH that all this stuff should be put right out there in the media so that the ‘infidel’ western world can begin to understand what we are all facing – no kidding. My heart is heavy.
Saw a wikipedia page about Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan
2001. Looked very much like an Atomic Cannon fired from BELOW a helicopter 5-6 times might have been aimed after getting coordnates
on heat patterns around the mountain rim…THEN Ka-WAM…
Lastly 4-5 rounds into the valley after heat reconnicence programming.
Lives lost…maybe 2…enemy killed maybe 2000!!!
We had atomic cannon in the 1950s…for battlefield…also the Brits.
Don’t recall any usage in Korean War although might have spared many Allies lives. I say allies because I saw the M.A.S.H. pilot show
and Canadian casualities were mentioned. Movie Australia mentions
Australia sending troops and getting hit in WWII.
Lest we forget…do you suppose atomic battlefield cannon are mothballed…somewhere in USA?
This is the real face of Islam that everyone must see. Whoever says that Islam is a religion of peace should have his head examined. Throughout history Islamo-facists have carried out acts of utmost cruelty. Like when the Afghan warlord Nadir Shah ordered his soldiers that each of them must present him with at least 8 pairs of human eyes or they themselves would pay. Kerman was for decades later a city of the blind.
With Gitmo Closing, And the terrorist moving to our shores even within the confines of the correctional instutions. I agree with K.H. The Media should stop thier Love fest. and show what true hatered these terrorist have for us & what they are capable of doing to the unsuspecting American. As For me I will Miss Former
Pres. Bush who Did Keep any further acts of agression from occuring
after 9-11.