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Friday, June 18, 2004
THE HORROR, AGAIN. The wires
are reporting that American hostage Paul
Johnson has been executed
by the terrorists who were holding him, presumably in Saudi Arabia.
The early word is that he was decapitated, just like Nicholas Berg
and Daniel Pearl before him. You could see this coming, but that
doesn't make it any less sickening.
Although this particular group of
terrorists has been demanding the release of prisoners in Saudi
Arabia, the focus of terrorism in that country in recent weeks has
been to get Western workers - especially Americans - to
leave.
I'd say it's going to work,
wouldn't you?
This is terrible, terrible news,
and further evidence - as if we needed any - that our enemies are
intent on dragging the entire world back to the eighth
century.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
