If you can read this story and come out the other side cheering for the terrorists then I will be sure to pray for you -- you're at least in de-nihilism. Myself, I had shivers of repulsion and the urge to retch... (Hat tip LGF.)
By the way, the Healing Iraq blog has a very apropos tagline: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." -- Jonathan Swift
Look at my tag line and you'll see kindred spirits...