American CIA agent beheaded in Iraq: Islamist website.

DUBAI (AFP) - An Islamist website showed a videotape which it said was of a US national and CIA agent being beheaded by members of a Islamic militant group in Iraq.

In the poor-quality video, whose authenticity could not be verified, a young Western-looking man is seated on a chair surrounded by five hooded gunmen, one of whom uses a long knife to cut through the man’s neck and then brandishes the head.

The same site (http://ansarnet.t35.com/dabh-cia.htm) shows a dozen photographs of the operation to kill the “CIA agent”.

During the four-minute video, an identity card is shown with the purported American’s photograph and the mention “visitor”.

But the gunmen’s words are unintelligible, apart from their cry of “Allah Akbar” (God is great) when the head is cut off.

What sort of God is it whose “greatness” is proven by the brutal slaughter of a helpless captive?

UPDATE at 8/11/04 5:08:13 pm:

Good lord. I watched this thing. Why do I do this, when I know it’s going to turn my stomach?

Because it’s the enemy, people. They have no trouble watching this stuff. In fact, they exult in it. They pass these videos around like US teens pass around video games.

This is the enemy.

I sincerely doubt this is a fake. And I despise that rotten creep in his underwear in San Francisco for even planting such an idea in people’s minds.

The scene is in some sort of enclosed outside area. You can see trees over a low wall.

Whoever the victim is, he looks either drugged or beaten half-conscious. His head is nodding and eyes half-closed while they strut around him with their weapons and masks, parading some sort of ID card labeled “VISITOR.”

Then everyone clears away, a holy warrior steps out with a sword and takes a big hack at the left front of the victim’s neck. The head does not come off easily. It takes five or more slashes. I wasn’t counting.

They’re all screaming “Allahu Akhbar!” while this happens. It’s unbelievably sickening and chilling to hear.

Finally he separates the head, grabs it by the hair, and holds it up for the camera. They’re still screaming “Allahu Akhbar!” in what sounds like religious ecstasy.

These snuff videos are the work of demons.