On the road to perdition
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1312829,00.html
While this botched, illegal war remains unresolved, there will be many
more Kenneth Bigleys
Mary Riddell
Sunday September 26, 2004
The Observer
He called himself a man of little consequence. 'Mr Blair, I am nothing
to you,' he said. Kenneth Bigley was too modest. The lurid coverage of
his ordeal has repelled and gripped a nation following every twist of
a story infused with hope but always likely to end tragically. Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, the murderer of Mr Bigley's two American housemates,
plays a short and and vile game.
The past week has seen a revolution in the history of fear. A Britain
consumed by worry that terror was coming home imagined gas on the
Tube, bombs at Heathrow or Beslan inside the beltway. Instead, the
capture of a middle-aged engineer touched a bedrock of dread. Few
visions are more horrible than helplessness.
Mary Riddell
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