Introducing the softer, gentler side of Al-Qaida.
Al-Qaida has urged its commander in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to shoot rather than behead hostages because brutal executions alienate the Muslim world, according to American officials.Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Islamist group’s second-in-command, allegedly told his colleague that a bullet was as deadly as a knife and would not repulse so many potential supporters.
