Murder Fantasies

An Irish journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq, and while some lizards make a point of wishing for his safe return, others revert to type and call for his speedy execution. Below is a sample of comments, helpfully compiled by our friend SK:

#2 Fred Z 10/19/2005 03:38PM PDT

See, the MSM does so report good news out of Iraq.

#15 Nosubforvictory 10/19/2005 03:44PM PDT

Couldn't have happened to a nicer tool.

#20 ploome hineni 10/19/2005 03:47PM PDT

why don't I care?

#29 Maine's Michael 10/19/2005 03:50PM PDT

It might be salutory for the guardian staff to watch this guy have his sputtering head sawed off with a butterknife.

#43 trigger girlie 10/19/2005 04:00PM PDT

Ohh, how sad, let me take out my tiny thumb sized violin.
I hope they make him a foot (or a head) shorter.

#61 Pitiricus 10/19/2005 04:12PM PDT

Something about it couldn't happen to a more deserving chap comes to mind...

#62 JamesW 10/19/2005 04:12PM PDT

Wow. I've not felt this much schadenfrude since the elections! Gonna OD on irony!

#77 red satellite 10/19/2005 04:18PM PDT

With any luck, the journalist will be sporting a burqa by sundown. The muslim psycopaths will think he's a virgin.

Payback's a bitch....and in the case, you might become one.

#154 Iron Fist 10/19/2005 05:05PM PDT

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[Dark, malevolent laughter]

Seeing as how he is on their side, maybe they'll give him an opportunity to earn his raisins.

Or at least use a sharp knife when they behead him ;-P

163 Londoner 10/19/2005 05:10PM PDT

I don't know about you guys, but I just can't get upset about a guy from a newspaper that's been supporting Hammas, Islamic Jihad and printing sympathetic articles on Islamism.

I guess it would be bad for this guy to get his head chopped and displayed on Al-Jazera. But considering how sympathetic his paper has been to the head choppers, it might bring home to the Guardian just what cultural differences we're talking about here.

#170 Iron Fist 10/19/2005 05:16PM PDT

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The death of an enemy is, as Martha Stuart [sic!] says, a good thing. That it comes at the hands of the side he supports is a delicious irony. If, instead, this is staged, and he walks away to extol the virtues of his "kidnapers", well, here's hoping that a stray round puts an end to him.

202 Nosubforvictory 10/19/2005 05:41PM PDT

I hope they slice off his feces filled cranium. Do you really think his tone will change if he comes back alive? Or will he continue to work propaganda for the islamnazis? If he continues to assist the enemy it is that many more dead Iraqis and Americans. Its not personal. Its strickly business.

..and so on...