The Associated Press is reporting that communist dictator-for-life Fidel Castro has labeled the U.S. airstrike that killed serial beheader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "a barbarity."
The United States acted as "judge and jury" against the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq, Castro said late Friday.
"They bragged, they were practically drunk with happiness."
"The accused cannot just be eliminated," he told a literacy conference. "This barbarity cannot be done."
So Al Qaeda terrorists who are waging war against the United States and its troops must all be taken alive, at the cost of the lives of countless U.S. soldiers?
Since when? Under what rules of war?
Oddly enough, the AP cites not a single legal expert to support Castro's opinion of the rules of war.
The Associated Press should be embarrassed to report such drivel as if it were news.
Be nice to have a 500-pound bomb drop on Fidel's pointy head, eh?
Posted by: benning | June 14, 2006 at 10:17 AM