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Centanni and Wigg Kidnappers Likely Zarqawi Inspired

James Joyner · Thursday, August 24, 2006 · 3 comments

Rusty Shackleford has strong reason to believe that the group behind the kidnapping of Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wigg are an “al Qaeda 3.0” group that sees Abu Musab al Zarqawi as a source for inspiration. Given that Zarqawi got on the map by personally beheading hostages on videotape, that’s bad news indeed.

FILED UNDER: Uncategorized, al-Qaeda, Fox News, Hostage Beheadings, Rusty Shackleford, Steve Centanni

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Anderson says:

Thursday, 24 August 2006 at 17:36

The fact we haven’t seen them executed yet is a reason to hope that Shackleford is wrong, as I’m sure he would be happy to be.
Ugh says:

Thursday, 24 August 2006 at 18:45

Inspired by Zarqawi? But we killed him, why would they be inspired by that? I thought it showed that we mean business. Huh.
LJD says:

Friday, 25 August 2006 at 07:47

Maybe we should release the video (ala Jazeera) of Zarqi coughing up blood following the strike.