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Sunday, November 23, 2003
Barbarians inside the gates
Nov. 23 — Iraqi teenagers dragged the bloody bodies of two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans. Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a U.S.-allied police chief was assassinated.
Tacitus:
Lovely people, keeping alive the grand tradition of lynching and all. What is it with folks in this part of the world and the frenzied public desecration of dead bodies? Mogadishu, Ramallah, and now Mosul. (Not to mention the similar horrors they perpetrate on one another, whether it be to a Palestinian with the misfortune of not hating Jews and saying so, or a Hashemite caught in Baghdad in '58.) Lynching! Alive and well alongside slavery, female genital mutilation, and religious apartheid in places populated mostly by....well, here we go again with the Islam versus culture versus "it's all exaggerated" versus "the Tamils do it too" arguments. I don't have the energy for it.
Barbarous savages.
Back in "this part of the world":
Byrd had his hands up here," Brewer testified, motioning with hands to his face, "and I guess that's when Shawn cut his throat."
The testimony was a startling twist to a brutal story that has attracted global attention.
Prosecutors allege Byrd's murder was carried out to draw attention to the racist gang to which Brewer and King belonged.
While juries in two trials had heard the grisly details of Byrd's death -- chained by his ankles to a pickup and dragged to pieces along three miles of road -- not even law officers were aware Byrd's throat had been cut first.
Gray wasn't convinced Byrd's throat was slashed, saying there wasn't enough blood at the fight scene to confirm it happened. And the autopsy showed Byrd was alive and attempting to hold his head up as he was being dragged, which Gray said doesn't jibe with a victim whose throat has been slashed.
King already has been sentenced to death. Berry's trial is pending. Brewer's trial was moved to Bryan, 150 miles west of Jasper, on a change of venue.
Brewer said he and King, both shaken, retreated to the cab of Berry's pickup after the slashing.
"I was in like a state of shock and I went to sit down directly in the truck," Brewer said.
Berry continued to savage Byrd, Brewer said.
"Tell him to leave that guy alone," Brewer testified that he told King. "He's already cut his throat and now he's kicking him."
Brewer testified Berry then pulled a logging chain out of his truck bed and tied it to Byrd's limp body.
"I said personally, 'You're not going to drag this man like you did that mailbox?'" Brewer said. "And he said, 'I know where we're taking him.'"
Berry backed up over Byrd's body, then drove along the dark roads.
"I told Shawn again, 'Pull over and take the man off ' the chain, Brewer testified. "He said, 'We're almost there. Don't worry.'"
They stopped in front of a predominantly black church, where the remainders of Byrd's body were left.
This is someone's son. Maybe someone's brother, husband, father, uncle.
This is George Bush's Mogadishu moment.
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