Anyone interested in Pravda’s vicious, anti-American harangue on the Va. Tech massacre? The official Russian newspaper’s vicious propaganda is put forth in the context of an attempt to decipher the words “Ismail Ax,” which were written in red ink on the arm of the murderer. Here are excerpts:

Another violent episode, in this latest chapter being written by the American people, in what passes for their rapidly declining culture, is being written…As the American people search for answers as to how this horrible event could have taken place, and from the perspective of having achieved among all of the World’s peoples the most violent society on Earth, the ‘main clue’, perhaps, for the actions of Cho Seung Hui may lie in the final cryptic message he left behind, written in red ink on his arm and simply saying, “ISMAIL AX’.
According to reports from South Korean Buddhist authorities, the name written on the arm of Cho Seung Hui, ‘ISMAIL AX’, is an anagram for SALAMI XI… The meaning of SALAMI comes from the Italian verb salare, meaning ‘to salt’, and is a reference to salting the earth, and which refers to the practice of spreading salt on fields to make them incapable of being used for crop-growing.
This was done in ancient times at the end of some wars as an extremely punitive scorched earth tactic.
The Latin symbol for the number 11 (XI) is the reference used by Cho Seung Hui to signify his ‘authority’ to ‘Salt the Earth’ as this is the number [considered] by numerologists…to be the ‘highest’ of all numbers.
A further ‘clue’ left behind by Cho Seung Hui lies in the ancient mythology of his ancient Korean homeland…he believed in his ‘right’ to be ‘Shin’ (godlike, divine, supernatural)…[hence] as evidenced by the reports from Western media…his ‘religious devotion’ to a song titled ‘Shine’, which was preformed by a musical group called Collective Soul…
[Thus, it is possible he believed] that by his actions he would, indeed, be ‘salting the Earth’ against a people, and a culture, he so despised towards their future destruction…
As history has too often shown us, the American people, once over their initial shock of this terrible massacre, will begin the institution of new, and draconian, measures designed to keep themselves safe from the madmen of this World, and which from past events has resulted in their becoming a virtual police state…
[T]he Americans [will now turn] their once great universities into virtual prisons for their children…
America [has now] learned firsthand the damaging effects their culture does indeed inflict upon some people.