May they rest in peace. All they wanted to do was work their asses off at any menial job they could get so that they could earn a few bucks for their families that they simply found impossible to earn in Nepal. What a sad commentary on the state of Nepal and of the world in general. What a way this century has unfolded..both in Nepal and in the world! It's really sad to see these poor souls be hounded from Nepal by the corrupt, self-enriching and utterly incompetent politicians/governments that have slaughtered the economy and the murderous Maoist leadership that convefniently hides behind India while it turns Nepal into a rubble in the pretext of saving it...only to fall prey to the greedy middlemen who dumped them into the hell that is Iraq, probably to earn a few extra bucks that the suckers were going gobble instead of sharing with these men. And these self-righteous terrorists in Iraq...they are the cancer of this world...them and their ideologies...and this group is the worst of the worst...if there is such a scale of these terrorits. When they realized they had caught the wrong prey and that there was really no demand to be made against them, they just decided to take the life of these 12 people, instead of letting them go. No matter how hard I try to convince myself that all major religions are good in nature and that they emphasize the same basic human values, only in different ways, this one appears to be different. Yes there are a vast number of peaceful Muslims, but as far as I can tell, that's IN SPITE OF the hatred, violence and oppression this religion preaches, not BCAUSE of it. Why were these poor souls killed when countless other hostages in Iraq from other countries have been released? Did the government do enough? And what's with the Minister of Labor as well as the ambassador in England emphasizing these people were in Iraq illegally? What the f**k are they talking about? Your citizens are hanging by a noose and what you do is publicly blame them?? If that's the best they can say in public, how sincerely did they try to save these poor souls? I am also disappointed by how much coverage the fate of these folks received in the US, especially beofre their killing. I can't blame the US for the fact that these gorkhes are dead, but the fact is that these killers are pissed off at the US. When one European or a Japanese gets caught, it's a big deal. When these 12 poor souls who would be the US armed force's cooks and cleaners are about to die, it's not a news. I have always understood that US is a big bepari nation at heart and is mostly driven by its econimic interests, but when there is such a massively tragic human story linked to its glorious quest for "freedom and democracy" in the Middle East, I would have thought the US media would think the US population would want to be informed, although the souls whose lives were on the line were from farway Nepal as opposed to any other country with which lots of dollars could be traded. --Sad and angry in NYC. To add insult to injury, George Bush is going to be sounding his uncompassionate horn in person in NYC tomorrow. :(