Also adept at beheading using a machete when needed, Congo's testimony suggested to Oppenheimer that the bravado behind describing this cruelty might in fact hint at a new reckoning; this taboo topic might be ready for discussion for a regime that prefers to stand silent behind its untoward past.
The pair, who had shared a flat in the Longsight area of Manchester, harboured such deep hatred for Ms Stone that they conspired to behead her using a samurai sword and dump her remains in a river.
A jury at Exeter Crown Court took just over four hours to unanimously convict Junior Bradshaw, 32, and Kevin Liverpool, 35, of harbouring such deep hatred for the international soul star that they conspired to behead her using a samurai sword and dump her remains in a river.
"Right," he's saying, "right: wouldn't it be good to pretend to behead Saf, only using a coathanger as a pretend knife?" They are warming to the idea now, the sun rising slowly over the hills of their imagination.
This is considered the source for the beheading game used in Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight.
In the same stadium that was famous for beheading women and using their heads as footballs, its an inspiring sight to see girls playing football.
They've gone from beheading journalists to using one as a mouthpiece to persuade Western viewers against supporting their leaders in the fight to destroy the Islamic State.
Some wanted to behead us.
"[Isis] is a group that routinely crucifies and beheads people," a US official, using one of the acronyms for the militant group.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced on Tuesday that the Islamic State has killed more than 2,000 Syrians off the battlefield since it declared its caliphate last June, using methods like beheading and stoning.
The murder outside Woolwich barracks was the first time that beheading had been used as a tool of terror in the West and it has, understandably, spread shock and revulsion.
