http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp

As much as I would like to believe it happened, I can find nothing definitively supporting the fact that it did. He may have threatened it once.

"We haven't eliminated the possibility that Pershing at some point chose to deal with a group of "Mohammedan fanatics" in a manner similar to the one described above, but so far all we've turned up are several different accounts with nothing that documents Pershing's involvement.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp#uuZwYz8betSDTiUl.99"

Now I understand snopes is not the perfect source, nothing is, not even wikipedia. We have flogged this dead horse before and no one was able to link to or produce any hard evidence this event happened. I'm ambivilent either way, but if there is proof this occurred, I'd love to see it.

FLT if you can point us in that direction, I know Jafar and I would be grateful !

NJC