Al-Qaeda militants behead U.S. hostage
Paul M. Johnson, Jr., was an Orlando-based field engineer who has been working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting the Apache program's Target Acquisition and Designation Sites/Pilot Night Vision System.
Life's a bitch, and it ain't fair, eh? There you are just trying to do your work, you don't worry too much about working for an arms manufacturer, a man's gotta make a living.. You don't ask too many ethical question about what you are doing helping the air force of a corrupt absolute monarchy who's been financing a particularly extreme version of Islam for decades, maybe you're just obeying orders, who knows? And then, whoops, things catch up with you and you loose your head... Or maybe you were wondering "what the hell am I doing here", and then... Bad luck hits...
And then everybody's horrified and few question what you were doing in Saudi Arabia in the first place…
Here's a link to Lokheed Martin's web page...
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fnec&ti=100Hundreds of billions worth of military hardware forced onto the sidelines while a small, but ever growing group of wackos make the US watch as they behead one of their own citizens in some anachronistic reality show...
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