Apparently, killing a terrorsist is wrong, if the terrorist is in a wheelchair. At least according to Robert Fisk.
It doesn't take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair.But wait. Isn't this the same reporter who just 2 weeks ago was eulogizing Abu Abbas, who killed a wheel-chair bound hostage just because he was Jewish. No couldn't be. Even Robert Fisk has a better sense of the ironic than that.
When 55-year-old Mohamed Aboul Abbas died mysteriously in a US prison camp in Iraq on Tuesday, nobody bothered to call his family.(hat tip: Michele) Posted by Kevin Murphy at March 23, 2004 11:15 PM | TrackBack
His American captors had given no indication to the International Red Cross that he had been unwell and his wife Reem first heard that he was dead when she watched an Arab television news show.
Yet in his last letter to his family, written just seven weeks ago and shown to The Independent in Baghdad yesterday, the Palestinian militant wrote that, "I am in good form and in good health", adding that he hoped to be freed soon.