Given the fact that they are not going to win in any way, they've resorted to claiming innocent lives through the most brutal ways...Paul Johnson Jr.(RIP),an aircraft engineer, was captured and taken into captivity for several days and later on beheaded after the US couldn't heed to an ultimatum set by the 'barbaric terrorist group'.Isn't there any way these guys can make their ends meet other than instilling fear in the world's population so as to have their demands met?Such groups don't last long especially with the kind of despair exposed;that actually costs human lives...it's simply unpopularity that's gaining peak.At the moment a South Korean national has been taken hostage...awaiting the gallows,too,if the Seoul government doesn't withdraw it's troops from Iraq.The game seems strategic...sickening though.

Perhaps I need to be informed on this...does the United Nations have a disaster prevention policy atleast outlined in its charter somewhere?Among all the catastrophes that take place in Africa, the UN for sure comes in at the last moment either in form of a peacekeeping force or food aid organisation or negotiating agency between factions already in the battle fields...so many examples of this scenario exist and the most recent one being the Darfur Crisis in the Sudan.Does Koffi Annan have an advisor on anticipating trouble? i have never heard of one despite my keen follow-ups on events unfolding at the UN.Whoever is in charge ought to take it more seriously,that is if there is someone in place.