The horror of the CNN al-Quada tapes

Dear folks,

Just to share with you something that has deeply upset me in the al-Quada training tapes shown on CNN this week. The unecessary and terrible murder of those dogs --

I watched the dogs die -- in a perverse way, I thought I owed it to their memory, and perhaps to
understand the enemy better -- but I cried the whole time, and still hear the death cries of one of the
dogs. I do not understand such wickedness. I know it goes on -- that animal experiments are done in
clean, government-sanctioned labs all over the world. But the tape got me.

And I sincerely hope that it got most people world-wide. Not just as a condemnation of al-Qaeda, but of
all animal experiments in the end. We are nearing a time when we can do most of the final testing through computer simulations. Perhaps when humans reach a point of honest compassion for the animal and plant and inanimate environments, someone will finally make the development of simulated methods a priority.

Still upset....Catherine

I saw part of that on CNN. When I watched, it was just a short segment about all the captured videos of al-Quada. It did not show anything bad, it showed events leading up to the bad part, so you kind of knew what occurred next on the video. It was a bad mental picture to have.

Dear Fuzzy -- even worse if you consider that I and my neighbors will have the pleasure of being human demonstrations if things don't go a lot better in the Middle East...

Catherine...I still have the image of that poor little puppy dying, embedded in my mind. I wish I had not seen it...it was SOOOOO horrible, and I think these people are pure evil.....