Muslim journalist Atwar Bahjat of Al-Arabiya television, was brutally murdered on February 22 at the age of 30, and The London Times has an extremely detailed and gory story of a film showing how she died. According to reports, two men in military uniforms stripped her to the waist, then her arms were bound behind her back. She is blindfolded with a white bandage that is stained with blood running from a wound on the left side
of her head.
A large man in military fatigues, boots and cap approaches from behind and covers her mouth with his left hand. In his right hand, he clutches a large knife with a black handle and an 8" blade. He proceeds to cut her throat from the middle, slicing from side to side.
Her cries — "Ah, ah, ah" — can be heard above the "Allahu akbar" intoned by the person capturing the murder on video. Her executioner suddenly stands up, his job only half done. A second man in a dark shirt and camouflage trousers places his right boot on her abdomen and pushes down hard eight times, forcing a rush of blood from her wounds as she moves her head from right to left.
The executioner then proceeds with beheading her, dropping her head to the ground, then picks it up again and perches it on her bare chest so that it faces the viewing audience.
In addition, sources also say that Bahjat had nine drill holes in her right arm and ten in her left. The
drill had also been applied to her legs, her navel and her right eye. It is not clear whether this horrific torture was done before or after she died.
The Mudville Gazette posits that her killers hadn't just conceived or improvised their method execution on the spot - they seem to have been well practiced. But such is the nature of the enemy in this war...
Blue Crab Boulevard says that this is the face of evil itself. That the monsters choose to hide behind masks shows how deeply depraved and cowardly they really are. We must remember we are at war. Or that face will show itself again and again.
Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch reminds us that "anyone who thinks that God's greatness is established by such acts of barbaric cruelty must be resisted at all costs."
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