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jihadi john dead?
- Thread starter dannyboy
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Megazone
On his last warning
Jihadi John?
Sounds more like an x-men character. If that's how you want to follow war then fair play but I'm not one for believing in this super terrorist stuff hyped up by crappy tabloid bullshit.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The enemy has always been pilloried by the press. By satirising them, you take away the fear from the public.
Hastings gull
Well-known member
- Nov 23, 2013
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I read the original post to mean that giving him an almost romantic-sounding nickname is awful, and if this is the case, then I heartily agree. I was always appalled at this name used for that savage - perhaps it is just me. Fully agree that the world is hardly a poorer place for his passing, assuming that this is true. If you live by the sword, then you die by the sword. His choice.
j
Exactly but even surviving the US and Russia and taking out Assad would be the end. Israel has a twitchy finger over the button.
Yes, there's lots of competition for his job. It's a cut-throat business.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
The world have always given nicknames to bad people. 'Jack the Ripper', 'Vlad the Impaler', 'Butcher of Belsen'...and all long before tabloids were around, they didn't invent it and if anything this particular nickname is more one of ridicule. As far as I can tell, no-one's claiming he's a super-terrorist or hyping him as such but he is/was a bad person.
Still, if it gives people like you a chance to get on your high horse, a chance to blame everything on the tabloids and feel a little bit superior to the common man then fill your boots.
Megazone
On his last warning
Erm, I thought we were talking about people in combat?
Can you name me any Nazi soldiers who received nicknames from the British press?
- Nov 11, 2009
- 12,278
Obama hoofed one long, Drone skipped down the left flank, passed to hellfire who connected perfectly and unleashed an unstoppable rocket.
back of the net, What a strike. Game over
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beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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executing prisoners on camera isn't combat.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Not sure a marine or paratrooper would have been piloting the US drone...I'm also not sure the US will be too keen on paying his family compensation.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Megazone
On his last warning
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
New member
Don't worry about small details,
John and his loving family have been wronged,someone has to bring Britain to account on this,can't just go round blowing home loving family lads up.
NOT IN MY NAME.
John and his loving family have been wronged,someone has to bring Britain to account on this,can't just go round blowing home loving family lads up.
NOT IN MY NAME.
Megazone
On his last warning
One of my first thoughts was linking this with yesterday's death penalty thread.
I'm wholly against such a sentence and yet am quite happy with this, although on certain basic levels they are one of the same.
'You've killed so the state will kill you'.
On that principle this is worse as it least the sentence is handed down after a trial.
But once again if the news is true, I agree with the action taken.
I'm wholly against such a sentence and yet am quite happy with this, although on certain basic levels they are one of the same.
'You've killed so the state will kill you'.
On that principle this is worse as it least the sentence is handed down after a trial.
But once again if the news is true, I agree with the action taken.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Hang on. The only person on here claiming that he's a super-terrorist was you. The bloke has been proven to be one of those who has beheaded innocents on camera.
Drones have taken out quite a few of those people. Jihadi John is just another of those. The only reason he's getting notoriety in the British press is because the bloke comes from here.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Lord Haw Haw aka William Joyce, as started by the Daily Express.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I'm pretty sure the Butcher of Belsen was a Nazi, that he was an officer and that it was a nickname rather than his given name but I'm happy to be corrected on that point.Erh... no you didn't. The Butcher of Belsen?
Are you sure about that?
Megazone
On his last warning
Agreed.