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Saudi justice is swift

The Saudi Arabians have already killed Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, the leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. (CBS News: Saudi Al Qaeda Chief Reported Dead)

As I said in my previous post, "I suspect that if the Saudi Arabian authorities catch the terrorists, the terrorists may wish they were in Abu Ghraib instead of in Saudi custody."

When the Israelis take that kind of action, everyone in the Arab world screams and complains, but I doubt that there will be a peep from the Arab street about the Saudis doing the same thing. The hypocrisy from the Arab/Islamic world is loud and clear.

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Meanwhile there's been a lot of debate in the blogosphere about the propriety of posting the Paul Johnson photos to blogs.

According to the Commisar, "these huge waves of publicity encourage the terrorists." If true, this would be a compelling reason not to post such photos. I have no desire to encourage terrorists. But I doubt that the terrorists are reading blogs. They are getting their news from Al Jazeera, which has no qualms about showing grisly photos.

At A Small Victory, Kathy from On the Third Hand left a comment where she wrote, “Most Americans don't get scared, they get angry. The enemy's tactics will backfire. But only if they are known.” Kathy is correct. The terrorists don’t understand us if they think these beheadings will cause us to retreat. They will have the opposite effect, but only if Americans know about them.

These photos encourage Americans to have the willpower to take decisive action against the terrorists, instead of blaming America for all the bad in the world and second guessing our invasion of Iraq when, just today, we get news that Russian intelligence warned us that Saddam was planning terror attacks against the United States.

posted Friday, June 18, 2004