Not since the end of the second world war has a European nation had to deal with such monstrous acts and statements.
"No centre of terrorism will reach its aim with such monstrous attacks," he said in a written statement.
Roosevelt, enraged, released a statement calling Parker's criticisms "monstrous" and "slanderous".
"No center of terrorism will reach its aim with such monstrous attacks," Davutoglu said in a written statement.
On the sound principle -- understood by right-wingers but not by liberals -- that the best defense is a good offense, Sarah Palin has released a self-exonerating video statement asserting that "acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own".
The Niger government said in a statement that it "vigorously condemns this odious and monstrous act of banditism".
But President Goodluck Jonathan was moved to make one firm media statement: "The president believes that the cowardly and ignoble attack by violent extremists is a monstrous assault on the right to freedom of expression".
"When juries fail to comprehend the monstrous scale of a police officer's murder, they fail society itself," Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a statement.
