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Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/20645.htm
Nick Berg's Murder
(New York Post) Editorial - In case the world needed a reminder of why America is waging its War on Terror, it got one Tuesday. It wasn't enough that they slaughtered Nick Berg like a sheep and held his severed head aloft as if it were a trophy. No, they filmed the whole thing for the world to see. Forget Abu Ghraib. The abuse committed there by a handful of soldiers was not typical; nor is it acceptable. But the beheading of Nick Berg is par for the course for al-Qaeda. There were no known abuses at Abu Ghraib when Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and Italian hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi were murdered by Islamic terrorists, or when frenzied crowds in Fallujah burned and mutilated the bodies of four Americans and strung them from a bridge.