US marine shooting the wounded Iraqi prisoner in a Fallujah mosque, according to this video footage by NBC. “Those that scaped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stincke and sente there of, but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie.”
William Bradford, History of the Plymouth Plantation, of Captain John Mason’s attack on a Pequot village on the Mystic River
William Bradford, History of the Plymouth Plantation, of Captain John Mason’s attack on a Pequot village on the Mystic River
Terrorism. The deliberate massacre of civilians, the physical and psychological horror of it accomplishing both political and military objectives. Considering the account at the beginning of this article, this “strategy” is hardly a new one for the United States of America, even before it bore the name.
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