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Thank you.

What?

I have money. Keep your mouth shut.

Or you will die.

What is your name?

Of course I do.

What's your name?

Wilhelm.

Adam.

My name is Adam.

I'm fine.

I'm hot.

I'm sick.

Are you

going

to kill me?

I live in New York.

I grew up in Delaware.

Perhaps you should have stayed there.

Your English is very good.

What's your name?

And why you are here, my friend.

Do you have a goat in your life?

No.

Yes.

Yes, I... I don't know.

Why?

You might want to make your peace with him now.

Oh my god!

Oh my god!

There are a lot of Iraqis here in the United States.

We're supposed to talk to them. Because we have the opportunity to talk to them

now. You understand?

And there will be a change.

This person will give us his secret.

Okay? Okay.

No problem.

Where will he go?

If he crosses this line, I'll kill him.

We are not barbarians, Smith.

So what happens now?

We are going to feed you.

And then we have a task for you.

But first, I must tell you the rules.

I have just informed my friend here that he is to shoot you.

If you cross this line,

we

will take care of you, Smith.

If you do everything you are asked without question, you will live.

Understand?

Yes.

How many children?

I don't have enough food here.

One million children do not have enough...

You are to read this statement to the camera.

Do you want me to read it first?

No.

You read it when you record it.

You can read, can't you?

Yes, I can read, sir. I can read very well.

Let us begin.

Say your entire name Adam David Smith

Again keep saying it My name is Adam David Smith

My name is Adam David Smith. My name is Adam David Smith. My name is Adam David

Smith My name is Adam David Smith.

My name is Adam David Smith. My name is enough

Wait till you are told.

Look at my hand. I'm going to count to three.

One.

Two.

Three.

My name is Adam David Smith.

and I am being held by members of the Swords of Truth in Iraq.

I am a crusader.

I am here to rape Arab lands of their resources so that I may profit from

satisfying the ravenous, avaricious appetites

of infidels.

Iraqi resistance will give the United States and Great Britain

exactly

48 hours to show intent to remove

their soldiers from Mesopotamia. Failure to comply.

They're here to comply with what was out in my decapitation in two days.

Hungry?

Please don't kill me.

Eat something.

I know what you do to the hostages.

Seen it on the internet.

Propaganda.

No, it isn't.

I know what you did to the Turkish guy.

You sawed off his head with a bread knife.

He shouldn't have been here. He was a traitor.

How?

He was a Muslim.

And he worked for the occupiers of a Muslim country.

Now he has the rest of eternity in hell to think about what he did.

Are you going to kill me?

Eat something.

It is land.

Can I talk to you?

What about?

Money.

I know you have a heart.

My family is rich.

We will give you money if you let me go.

Is that what they teach you?

Get close to the captors, make friends with them, bribe them.

Now eat your food. Or don't. I don't care.

Sit down!

Down!

A newspaper.

You have newspapers in America, don't you?

Go on, read it.

What am I looking for?

For yourself.

There's nothing there. Exactly.

And they don't care about you.

They are going to let you die.

A miserable death.

And then they will peddle more lies about what is here.

And there will be a thousand people willing to take your place.

You will be forgotten.

Are you just trying to fight me so you can make a better video?

Leave it. No.

If you're gonna kill me, I'm not gonna make any more of those things.

I swear.

I swear I will.

Sit on the stool.

After

three.

One.

Two.

power to save my life.

The Arabs are peaceful people, but they will not tolerate more massacres. They

will fight to the death of the last martyr until Arab lands are free from

Christian crusaders and the Zionist bankers who financed them.

I appeal to the people who rise up against the sinful governments who sent

here.

Misguided soldiers who fight for the greed of corporations who

in turn profit from reconstructing the very homes they have destroyed.

My hosts have shown me the knife that will... will remove my head.

I have exactly 36 hours.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

You don't believe they'll do anything, do you?

Spain did.

Turkey did.

The US won't.

So why do you get me to record these messages?

Because they will fester like wounds.

I know that at first there will be anger, and that innocent people will die

in acts of imperial vengeance.

But afterwards, people will go back,

and they will witness your death once again.

And again.

And when they have finished pointing their crooked fingers at me, they might

stop and ask themselves, why do they hate us?

Only then might they begin to see who the real monster is.

So you say the message of murder has a solution to murder.

It is God's will.

I have a family.

A daughter!

She's only two years old, but she's going to be able to see her own father

decapitated just as soon as she is old enough to type his name, my name,

into an internet search engine. Now, what kind of reaction are you

expecting?

Compassion?

But that is the beauty of the Internet, Smith.

Your governments cannot control it.

Cannot force -feed people the same lies that they do on the state -controlled

youth nations.

Ironic, huh?

But you created the very thing that we can use to haunt you.

Well, in the end, they're creating more of the same monsters.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Maybe your daughter will see it and be deterred from coming to this country.

Maybe she will not let her sons don imperial uniforms and come to this

to murder our children so that they can drive bigger cars.

Maybe she will not be happy to work for companies that...

That pour concrete into holes.

Hole smith that were once the homes of the devastated people I have loved.

Maybe she'll come here looking for revenge.

And maybe I will remove her head too.

She wouldn't want to hurt you.

Or anybody else.

Her mother told me not to come here.

Said I had no right to be working in this country.

My son, Ibrahim.

You must be very proud of him.

An American helicopter.

It, uh... It attacked us at a wedding, Smith.

18 months ago.

It was an Apache gunship.

My son, Ibrahim... Smith...

He was... He was 20 feet from me when he was hit.

A one -second burst from a 20 -millimeter cannon. Have you ever seen

No? No?

He was hit so many times, Smith, so quickly that

he exploded.

I watched his arms and his legs come off.

Why tell me all these things if you're just going to kill me?

I could tell people your story.

I don't want you telling people my story.

You are from a nation of liars.

You know what your newspaper said?

You know what lies they told about my son?

They said we were a terrorist training camp.

It was a wedding party, Smith.

A wedding party. Ibrahim was training to be a doctor. Why are you telling me

this?

Why?

Why?

Because when you die, and in one and a half days, You will die.

It will be me who kills you.

And I want you to know my pain.

So that when you meet your God, you can tell him about my son.

You are going to kill me, aren't you?

And this... This is

what I will use to do it.

And don't ask anybody here to cry for you, Smith.

To show you compassion.

We have too much.

Look at it tonight while you pray.

Western powers should not be here.

They should not force their doctrines upon the world, a world that does not

them.

Every child that dies here by an American weapon will be avenged a

times.

My gracious hosts, hereby decree that

Great Britain and the United States have just one more day to leave Iraq.

One more day to change what you do.

You all have just one more day to change what you do.

Do you hear me?

I can see what you are all doing.

The lies, the deceit, the blackness in your hearts.

Going to your churches every Sunday, your synagogues every Saturday, and your

mosques every Friday.

Praying to know me while you scatter the seeds of destruction all about you.

Do you think I care about the books in your buildings?

Do I care about the clothes on your back?

I created an entire universe with a single divine cord at the dawn of time,

you are not what I planned.

So do not claim to do things in my name, because you do not have my

permission.

Can you see what you are doing?

No.

With your bombs and your bricks, you are building the very hell that will

consume you.

Be warned.

I know you.

Hey.

How did you sleep?

It's not a trick question.

It was very cold.

We could not put on the heating since your warplane

killed all our power stations.

I'll make sure you have a blanket tonight.

You'll have no pleasure in making yourself.

You shouldn't have done that.

They carry eggs inside them which now would hatch.

There will be many thousands in its place.

like you, really.

Third Western civilian has been kidnapped by insurgents in the latest

in Baghdad. Early yesterday morning, 43 -year -old Adam Smith, a consultant for

U .S.-based construction giant Robertson Group...

...City

District, a group identifying itself as... The force of truth has claimed

responsibility for the kidnapping.

...were executed at the scene. Adam Smith is the third...

...since

the start of the current insurgency and fears are growing for his safety.

I'll kill you!

Executed after the authorities refused to cave in to demand for a complete...

Points have been set up throughout the city.

Location are being hampered by the ferocity of the Shia insurgency.

Get up.

Check the road.

No.

I will

stay here

for now in case the soldiers decide to come back and he tries to alert them.

Swear to take him.

I'll get you some food.

I prayed last night.

And who did you pray to?

I don't understand.

Who did I forget?

What do you want me to say?

The truth.

The search for truth is the search for God, Smith.

Because I'm not free to tell the truth here.

Aha.

You can talk freely now.

You wouldn't want to hear it.

I promise.

Nothing you say now will change that.

So you have nothing to say.

How many people are all the same?

Fanatics?

You all seem to think you know the only way and everyone else is beneath you.

So you have no faith.

I do, just not yours.

See, I think that I have a faith that there's room for everybody.

So do I.

So what's the name for that?

What is your point?

I don't want you defining my relationship.

With God.

Who are you to give me a name? I don't belong to you or your religion.

I am a Muslim, Smith.

Alhamdulillah. I am duty -bound to be a Muslim.

It is not something I wear only on Sundays like the hypocrites who sent you

here. I'm born in the heart of God, and I will live in the heart of God. That

makes you a man of God, doesn't it?

You have nothing to teach the world about God.

Only violence.

Is this a joke, Smith?

Are you blind?

Have you not seen what your armies have done to my country? We are not going to

let you keep threatening the world with your... your... your doctrines.

We are an ancient country, Smith.

We were here long before your oil -addicted, bloated nation birthed itself

the swamps of Everest. And inshallah, we will be here long, long after you have

all gone back into the darkness from where you came.

You see, you've just... No humility. You can't accept that we're different.

You... You astound me.

What do you know of humility, huh?

Of acceptance and tolerance.

You have come here to my country without invitation, without mandate,

and you expect us to bow to you.

We will not do that.

Could you tell me who's buried in all those mass graves we found here in the

Garden of Eden?

Who was it who pulled the trigger on all those 80 ,000 rotting corpses in the

desert?

Saddam Hussein can't have killed them all.

There were death squads here?

We had no choice. We had to do what we were told.

Was he just following orders?

That's great.

He looked like the Nazis.

The world is just about sick of you and your sharing of love.

The world is sick of watching you beheading women. It's sick of watching

Taliban killing people for carrying vitables or just reading books.

We're sick of your backward medieval imams who issue fatwas against anyone

dares to criticize them.

Finished?

If you have finished, then let me enlighten you. We had no Sharia law

had no Taliban here, you fox news puppet.

Our deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, was Christian.

We have synagogues in this city where Jews have prayed for the last 30

centuries.

You're an intelligent man.

Why do you believe all the lies, the false propaganda your government feeds

The invasion of Kuwait, a lie.

Okay, so tell me this. What about the invasion of Panama, huh?

Or Nicaragua? Or the British invasion of the Malvinas? Or why not talk about the

annexation of California where your government stole it from the Mexicans?

Or the overthrow of democratic governments in the Philippines, in

Iran?

I could go on and on, but the fact is that you are the warrior nation, not us.

Yeah, it's ancient history.

No, it is not. No, to you it may be because you have no history, but our

history, it goes back 50 centuries, not 50 years.

Don't pretend that you're the innocent bystanders here.

You're the ones who flew planes in the buildings in 9 -11 in front of the whole

world. Who did?

You did.

Muthamud. He wanted a war.

into your ignorance.

There were no Iraqis on those planes. Only your friends, the Saudis.

Saddam had a secular country. We had no Al -Qaeda here until you disbanded our

armies.

You were all Muslim.

Judy Bowne, remember?

This is 3 ,000 dead Americans.

That's the human carnage that binds you all.

And 100 ,000 dead Iraqis.

My countrymen, my brothers, it's the human wreckage that binds you all.

That is one World Trade

Center every month.

Do they deserve retribution?

They're casualties of a conflict. They're not the target.

I will tell that to my son.

We have a right to defend our country.

And don't we have a right to defend our country?

You know something, Smith?

I've begun to feel sorry for you.

You have no history, no culture, and no

faith.

And that is why we will drive you back into the sand with

your face hanging in shame.

The sand is all that will remain here if you do.

We shall see.

Let us be very clear, Mr. Smith.

I do this...

For my son.

So that one day when I see him, he will be proud.

That his father did not forget him. That is... That is why I do this.

That is why I fight.

You created me, Smith.

You created me.

Ahmed will try to kill your father tomorrow. Okay.

Rest a little.

God willing, everything will be fine. Stay with me.

Okay.

You created me, Smith.

Thank you. Be quiet!

You both said that I wasn't to be... That was very stupid.

What do you think?

We were just talking. I didn't mean to... Be quiet.

What do you mean, Tate?

Who are you?

There are S .E .S. forces around the area. They know you are here. I'm trying

contact them. The S .E .S. are here?

I'm trying to contact them, but it is very difficult. We are all watching each

other. What can I do? What can I do?

Be a good prisoner, Smith. Don't try anything.

Even if somebody tells you they are your friend, do not attempt to leave.

You wouldn't get out of here alive.

If you tell anyone about me, I will kill you myself.

I understand.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Pray.

I promise you'll get your money. What?

I promise you will get your money. What money?

The money we talked about last night.

Tell me.

Last night somebody came in with a mask. I thought it was you.

He asked for money and I offered $250 ,000. What did he say?

He said I should be ready that it could happen.

This is bad.

Trust no one.

I'll come back to you later. I'll tell you what to do.

Do you understand?

Do you understand?

I should kill you while you sit!

They say?

You're trying to get yourself killed before tomorrow.

No, no, I'm talking about what he said to Dakheel.

What did Dakheel say?

Dakheel said that the world hates Islam.

And he criticized the Prophet, too. Do you see this?

You're going to get hit on the head, Salibi.

Dakheel is the one who decided.

He didn't say anything about Dakheel.

Dakheel is a bastard.

I'll tell you.

Dakhil is the one who decided.

Yes, what does that mean?

Enough.

You're the one who chose.

Please don't kill me. I can give you money.

Go back to your place.

Go back to your place.

Go back to your place.

Go back to your place.

Go back to your place.

My brothers.

My brothers.

And then you dare offer us money.

Money.

I want to kill you so bad.

I want to kill you so bad. I'm like a dog. Look at me.

Look.

Look.

A big bad!

A big bad!

Hey!

I'm sorry about Ahmed.

I don't know what to do.

All I can see is my daughter's face.

Her face as she watches what you're going to do to me.

I understand.

I really am sorry for what is ahead of you.

Then change it.

Don't record my death.

I beg you.

I was unkind to you earlier.

You can break the cycle any time.

Your death will mean something. No, it won't.

It's just going to sit like a cancer in the heart of the few people in this

world who actually love me.

It will do more than that.

No!

Bush and Blair might say a few words. They might even send...

A few more troops, but they'll forget about me in a day or two when something

more important happens.

Something more important than what happened to me.

You're right.

They don't care about you, that's true.

But they will not be able to ignore it.

You would not have died for nothing.

You think so?

So does that mean that you can actually name five of the hostages who've been

beheaded here?

Huh?

Can you name two?

Names are not important. That is not the point. Well, then what is the point?

Would Ariel Sharon have ever left the Gaza trip if the suicide bombings had

stopped? What?

Would the French have left Algiers?

The British have left India. Would the Americans have ever left Vietnam?

Governments have never left willingly. They've always had to be driven out.

You know, I... I can't do this.

If this is my last night, then I'm not going to spend it with you tormenting

Don't ask me to do this. You know I cannot.

Then don't ask me to shoulder your guilt.

You are right.

I should leave you to... to find your peace.

Go ahead.

I don't think I believe in God.

I've really tried to find him, but I can't.

That does not mean he doesn't exist.

I've tried to pray so hard, but...

I only know one prayer, and it's not even a proper prayer.

I am told God listens to all our prayers.

Like I would talk to a friend.

I don't think he's listening.

That is a question of fate.

I just don't understand why God is so angry with me.

Why don't you tell me your daughter's name?

Angela?

Angela?

Angela, like, like, Angel?

What's your name?

I remember the first time I heard my daughter laugh.

My wife and I were bathing her and we blew.

Bubbles with the soap suds.

And every time we did it, she would laugh louder.

My wife left me because I stopped caring about her.

If I could change that, I would.

I never thought my life would lead me here.

I would change, God, you know. I mean, each day would be as

full as possible. I tell somebody I love them every day.

Why in God?

Why send this man to show me compassion before he kills

me?

I just don't understand it, you know.

It makes no sense.

He comes to spend my last hours with me and...

He falls.

I really lost, God.

And I don't even know if you care.

If you sent me a sign, I'd...

I didn't see it.

I really don't want to die, but... You're all I've got.

He told me to pray, so... I only know

one prayer, and that's the psalm I learned in Sunday school, so...

You want to hear that?

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in weak pastures.

He leadeth me beside the Philharmonic.

He restores my soul.

He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear not

him.

For Thou art with me, and I run at night and day.

O come, free me.

Thou prepare the tape of the throne of the Christ.

Thou are going to slay him.

I come from above.

Truly, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.

And I looked well.

Is everything okay?

Yes, everything is fine. I thought I heard voices.

Do you want anything?

No, thank you.

I will not let them kill you.

What are you going to tell me? Don't worry about the others.

I told them that they are not to come here dead.

There is a change in plan that we will hold you ransom because you have money.

Only Ahmed might be a problem.

There's a problem.

What?

One of them came in and asked for money.

When?

On the first night he offered to free me for a quarter of a million dollars.

Who was it?

I don't know. He had a mask. It was me.

When did you decide to betray me?

Why

did

you lie to me?

Why didn't you tell me you just wanted the money?

What about the soldiers? Are they coming? Don't worry about them.

But are they coming? No, they are not. No more questions.

But why didn't you tell me people were coming to set me free?

You shouldn't have been here last night.

But how was I to know?

Why didn't you tell me?

Why? Why?

If you want death, I can give you death.

Move!

Move!

$230 ,000.

I beg you to speak.

Farah.

Leave me alone.

Get out of the way.

Dakhil. Put the camera down.

Dakhil. I beg you.

Speak.

But I'll shoot you.

Do it now. I'll shoot you.

I swear.

I will.

Open up yourself, you...

Thank you.