Just got this, more or less via Tim Blair.
My countrymen are well served by this man. Al Jazeera refused to play the tape of the Italian's execution long enough to hear his last words because it was "too gruesome". Marines dismembered and strung up, dead coalition soldiers and the 'martyred' jihadists are all totally ok but Al Jazeera doesn't want to show brave defiance when it's on the side of the people rebuilding Iraq.
The man's last words and actions?
He tried to tear off his hood seconds before he was shot dead and screamed: "Now I'll show you how an Italian dies."
Forza Italia.
Posted by John Swaine at April 17, 2004 01:36 AM