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2006-11-12 Iraq

US offers $50,000 for soldier kidnapped in Iraq

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Posted by Pappy 2006-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "alive"

They left it out.

Posted by .com 2006-11-12 01:39|| 2006-11-12 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I would offer that I won't kill them when they return the soldier alive.

Not if, when.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-12 03:47|| 2006-11-12 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 I think they need to start dragneting the river, in case no one comes forward with info.

Posted by smn 2006-11-12 05:22|| 2006-11-12 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Am I the inly one who is suspicious when a US soldier called Ahmed is captured? Remember that soldierr who reappeared in Beiruth?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-11-12 06:45|| 2006-11-12 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM, I too smell something, have from day one. Current indicators: no all out search for him (that I can see), a lousy $50K bounty, is he really a US soldier, is he an interpreter working for the US, etc.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-11-12 07:08|| 2006-11-12 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 The $50K sounds like it is part of a "Wanted" poster.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-11-12 07:09|| 2006-11-12 07:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Her family says he fell in love with and married her in Iraq, the Army and his family say he married her five months before he left America. The kidnappers were lolling about a house down the street from hers for some time before snatching him as he went to visit her. He may have merely been criminally stupid about which of the Army's rules he chose to break, or he may have chosen to ignore her family's warnings, or he is complicit. We know that Saddam Hussein supported many spies and saboteurs in the Iraqi community in America, just as does the Iranian regime.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-12 09:34|| 2006-11-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's see. It was 250K for SGLI payout, but I think Congress got embarrassed enough to push it up to 400K. Payout 50K for a live body or pay the widow 400K for a dead one. Whatcha think?

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-11-12 09:40|| 2006-11-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

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