Hey Serendipity,

Thanks for such a long and exhaustive.... shud i say exhausting!! reply....

Jokes apart i really liked your polished and informative response...

Now coming to your reply.... You HAVE to stand corrected becos i have personally seen an american being beheaded on aljazeera .... this wasnt live... cos it wud sound absurd... if it was live... however it was almost a year ago.... i wasnt in Doha then .... cant remember this guys name.... he was beheaded after several days of suspense filled talks ended in deadlock....

Of course the narration was in arabic and i cudnt follow a word.... but i cud see an unkempt unshaven scared white man being slowly behaded by a group of almost 4 men who were masked....

two held him down and two did the gruesome act... for all those who dont feel disturbed by gory pictures i wish i had recorded the telecast... u wud have stopped watched al jazeera... like i did...

i dont need to disseminate wrong info like u have assumed ... i dont gain anything from this...

I have many smart arab friends and i like arab people... but im not fanatical to condone anything in the name of religion or race like how most muslims keep doing the world over....

the reason why i spoke about me not being an american was how you started talking about american tv channels when i was discussing al jazeera.... i find this logic very vain.... just becos american channels are sanitised in their war reports doesnt mean you have to be expilictyly horrific in your reportage....

two wrongs doesnt make a right....

having said all this in the short span of 2 weeks or so that i have beeen a member on this site you have been the first person with whom i have enjoyed sharing info...

I have had people pass jokes on my name and mock at the issues... but u seem to be genuine... though we disagree on issues i like ur postings....
keep the good work going....

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The only failure is failing to try harder.....