The leader of the terrorists told them he'd grant

each of them one last request before they were

beheaded and dragged naked through the streets.

Katie Couric said,

'Well, I'm a Southerner, so I'd like one last

plate of fried chicken.'

The leader nodded to an underling who left and

returned with the chicken.

Couric ate it all and said, 'Now I can die content.'

Charlie Gibson said, 'I'm living in ' New York ,

so I'd like to hear the song, The Moon and Me,

one last time.'

The terrorist leader nodded to another terrorist

who had studied the Western world and knew the

music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians

and played the song.

Gibson was satisfied.

Brian Williams said, 'I'm a reporter to the end.

I want to take out my tape recorder and describe

the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe,

someday, someone will hear it and know that I was

on the job till the end.'

The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape

recorder and Williams dictated his comments.

He then said, 'Now I can die happy.'

The leader turned and said, 'And now, Mr. U.S.

Marine, what is your final wish?

'Kick me in the ass,' said the Marine.

'What?' asked the leader, 'Will you mock us in

your last hour?'

'No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in

the ass,' insisted the
Marine.

So the leader shoved him into the yard and kicked

him in the ass.

The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees,

pulled a 9 mm pistol from inside his cammies and

shot the leader dead.

In the resulting confusion, he emptied his sidearm

on six terrorists, then with his knife he slashed the

throat of one, and with an AK-47,