... this time threatening to behead a South Korean hostage in response to South Korea sending troops to Iraq.
IMHO these Islamic extremist bastards are making a huge mistake by expecting the same reaction they managed to get out of socialist Spain to withdraw troops from the "semi-right wing" government like South Korea. These highly publicized beheadings are not only forcing virtually every non middle eastern country in the world to acknowledge and view the Islamic extremists as butchers, murderers and thugs.
But they are also starting to alienate the base of support the Fundamentalist Fanatics desparately need from "regular folks" living in the middle east. Even more importantly, these atrocities are starting to force the hand of so far "neutral" islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Algeria to take strong action against the Islamic fundamentalist fanatics themselves for fear of losing control of their own countries and being perceived by the rest of the world as openly supporting terrorism.
Middle east countries that persist in supporting Islamic terrorists are beginning to get the message that a "paper border" is not going to protect them from retaliation. Today's news story about israelis crossing the Lebanese border to root out terrorists lobbing shells into Israel sent a pretty clear message.
What worries me the most is actually Iran - who was proven to have "disappeared" a nuclear weapons facility a few days before UN inspectors were due to make a sweep (a pretty good indication that Iran now has nuclear capability), and who is massing thousands and thousands of troops on the Iran/Iraq border. If the terrorists start really taking a beating, it's distinctly possible that Iran will turn these troops loose into Iraq where they will vastly outnumber coalition forces.



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