talking to an old PI soldier

[Federico]

Originally Posted by zamboanga

That is if they are willing to part with it... in my experience they usually don't no matter the price...

here is a link about the beheadings captured on video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/1829211.stm

Thanks for the link, I remember watching that footage on the Filipino channel a few years back when my father was alive. I believe this was after shortly after the capture of a school by Abu Sayaff, and when they holed up in a hospital to be surrounded by Philippine troops in APCs, to only escape from the back (since somehow the troops didnt feel that they would be able to safely guard the back).

As for cut vs stab, another thing to throw in is targetting, targetting, targetting. What is the attacker targetting with his cut or stab. I would be more worried about a cut at my femoral artery than a stab to a large muscle mass such as my outside thigh, and vise versa, a stab to the jugular would be far more dangerous than a lateral slash to the bicep (which would even be a stopping cut as it would not properly sever the connecting tissue). Then there is the whole, what is the fine line between a cut vs stab. If I stab someone, and then proceed to cut out that stab, is it still a stab or a cut (make sense?).