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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
This is a tough one really. You can't dispute that the killings are needless and barbaric, but they are "war kills", so to speak... And whilst I think there's a very good case for describing any deliberate killing as a murder, you can't pick and choose. You would have to brand our own soldiers and pilots murderers too. Murder is the action and not dependant on the method or how brutal the death is.
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I have read some really excellent posts from you TS but I cannot agree here.
'Collateral Damage' during any military offensive is always sad, but it is an unintentional and unavoidable consequence of war. These acts of atrocity are not 'war kills' and have nothing to do with war, and neither are they unintentional. They are the senseless, deliberate evil be-headings of innocent non-combatants by vile cowardly terrorists.