Al-Qaeda To Hold Jihad Atrocity Trials

Regarding double standards...

(WASHINGTON) — A day after eight U.S. Marines were charged in connection with the killing of 20 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, al Qaeda and Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr announced they would begin prosecuting their own fighters who “inadvertently cause civilian deaths” in a series of “jihadi atrocity trials.”

On the morning of November 19, 2005, Marines in a convoy responded to an ambush that killed a member of their unit by conducting a house-to-house search for enemy fighters, who often hide among women and children, and always dress as civilians. If convicted by a military tribunal of unpremeditated murder, four of the Marines charged could face life in prison.

In a joint statement, Mr. al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army and al-Qaeda in Iraq said, “If the Great Satan can bring its troops to justice for violating rules of engagement, then so can we. It’s against our rules and our religion to inadvertently kill innocent civilians in war time.”

“We will prosecute any suicide bomber who accidentally, rather than intentionally, kills civilians,” the statement said. “We have sent them to commit premeditated atrocity and massacre and we expect them to operate according to those rules of engagement.”

The terror groups acknowledged they may have to conduct some of the trials posthumously, “but if any of our martyrs are found guilty, we can always execute justice on their surviving relatives.”" -- as reported by Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

Who says all is fair in love and war? Main Stream Media is ripe with double standards regarding the ethics and the rules of engagement in this conflict of civilizations. The above satire by Scott points out the sheer insanity of attempting to engage in rational thought with an enemy who sees nothing immoral in the taking of innocent lives, even those supporting their own cause to further their evil political ends. The idea that a tribunal might exist in Al-Qaeda to prosecute acts of barbarity by their side in this conflict points out the utter absurdity and one sidedness of the "terrorist as victim" mentality in much of the main stream western media.

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