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2025-03-06 Iraq
Iraq says it’s working to find kidnapped Israeli-Russian academic
[IsraelTimes] Following US pressure, Iraqi security official says government is trying ‘discreetly’ to locate Elizabeth Tsurkov, believed to have been held by terrorists since 2023

Iraq’s national security adviser said Wednesday that authorities were actively searching for Elizabeth Tsurkov,
…one of those far left fools who believe their good intentions will protect them when they walk neck-deep in evil, she is believed to be held by Kataeb Hezbollah, though no one ever claimed credit for snatching her. She was in the process of arranging an interview with a Kataeb Hezbollah big turban when she disappeared, just the kind of thing to make a suspicious mind feel suspicious…
an Israeli-Russian academic kidnapped nearly two years ago in Baghdad.

Tsurkov, a doctoral student at Princeton University and fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, is believed to have been held by Islamist Death Eaters since March 2023.

National Security Adviser Qassem al-Araji told AFP that "Iraqi authorities are working under the prime minister’s direction" to solve the issue.

Israeli authorities have blamed the Iran-backed Iraqi terror group Kataeb Hezbollah, though no group has yet grabbed credit for her disappearance.

"The security services are mobilized to locate her and find the group that kidnapped her," al-Araji said, adding there had been no claims of responsibility for her abduction or demands for her release. "We have to operate discreetly and through intermediates" to locate her, he added.

Al-Araji’s statement comes in the wake of public demands on the matter by US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
’s hostage envoy Adam Boehler, who warned the Iraqi prime minister in February that the latter would be deemed complicit if Tsurkov was not immediately released.

"Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Princeton student held hostage in Iraq!" Adam Boehler tweeted, adding that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i "consistently made false promises to the prior administration about releasing her."

"BUT NOW [US President Donald Trump] IS ON TO YOU!" he added, warning that if Tsurkov "does not come home NOW then [Sudani] is either incapable and should be FIRED or worse COMPLICIT."

Tsurkov, who had likely entered Iraq on her Russian passport, had traveled to the country as part of her doctoral studies after previously traveling to the country and other Arab countries in the region.

In November 2023, Iraqi channel Al Rabiaa TV aired the first hostage video of Tsurkov known to the public since her kidnapping.

In the video, Tsurkov mentioned the war between Israel and Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, which raged after the Paleostinian terror group launched its October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-06 2025-03-06 00:14|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top
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