Sub-Humans

Every time I think they can't possibly get more debased and perverted, they can't possibly sink to an even deeper level of barbarity, the sub-humans of al Qaeda prove me wrong.

The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11-years-old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.

It seems to me the families served in this way were those with whom al Qaeda had been making no progress. This sort of barbaric treatment is unlikely to convert parents to the barbarians' point of view.

There are those who have suggested this is some sort of urban legend. And that is possible. But these actions were clearly believed by the official who reported them, and who showed a firm grasp on what had really been going on in the Baqubah area in the rest of what he said. And I, for one, would not be ready to assert that those rape and kill women and children in front of their families, and who enjoy using power drills on people in al Qaeda torture houses, would shrink from this additional barbarity.