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Terror Tactics THE NETHERLANDS In a procedural hearing in the case against Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, judges were told that Bouyeri twice ignored Van Gogh's pleas for mercy. Prosecutors said that Bouyeri first shot Van Gogh dead, then slit his throat, and that the gruesome slaying was intended to terrify the Dutch population. Bouyeri, who faces charges ranging from murder to impeding democracy, waived his right to attend the court. His trial is expected to start before the summer...
...Gogh, a great-grandnephew of the artist Vincent van Gogh, had just finished a film about Fortuyn when he was murdered. Amsterdam's public prosecutor says Mohammed B. shot Van Gogh as he cycled to his studio, then slit his throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans...
...named Lau, gestures toward a pig in a nearby butcher shop. "A man in a pair of bloodied shorts stepped up to it, grabbed one ear and yanked it back," writes Booth. "The pig squealed, an eerie, unearthly sound. The butcher ran a sharp knife under its neck and slit its throat, stepping smartly backwards. The pig fell on its side, thrashing about and gurgling obscenely. Blood sprayed from its neck. Lau put his hands on my shoulder in an affable manner and said, 'You talk [about what Booth had seen in the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like...
...chicken was either “shocked” through starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...
...shooting began, at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 4, the soldiers awoke with a start and dived to the floor. Not one reached for a weapon: their guns were securely stowed in the battalion's armory. That night, four soldiers guarding the armory were killed?one had his throat slit?and more than 300 M-16s and pistols were stolen by the intruders. "It was frightening," says a soldier. "We could do nothing to stop them." So who were the killers? "I don't know," he replies...