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| Bulgarian Hostage Killed in Iraq | |
| 2004-07-14 | |
| Insurgents killed a Bulgarian hostage in Iraq and vowed to kill a second Bulgarian within 24 hours, al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The Arab satellite station said it had decided not to broadcast a videotape of the killing because it was Bulgaria, which has contributed 470 troops to U.S.-led forces in Iraq, confirmed that one of the two truck drivers had been killed. "One of the Bulgarians has been executed," said Bulgarian government spokesman Dimitar Tsonev. Bulgaria, which has said it will keep its troops in Iraq as long as they are needed, had urged the militants to release Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivailo Kepov, 32, who disappeared June 27. There was no word on which man had been killed. The Monotheism and Jihad Group, which had asserted responsibility for the beheading of an American and a South Korean in Iraq, threatened Thursday to kill the Bulgarians within 24 hours unless U.S.-led forces freed all Iraqi detainees. The U.S. military has branded the group's leader, Jordanian-born Abu Musab Zarqawi, its number one target in Iraq, saying he is behind much of the violence racking the country.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Bulgaria has lived under the Soviet jackboot for 50 years or so. They do not want to go back to that type of existance. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-07-14 8:59:50 PM |
| #6 Quit calling them bastards. That's an insult to real bastards who had no choice in their parents' marital status. If you want to insult the jihadis try calling them sons of bitches. Dogs are unclean in their lexicon. Sounds like Bulgaria still understands the cost, and the value, of freedom. |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2004-07-14 8:51:16 PM |
| #5 I think that here's a lady who understands that 'freedom' isn't some nebulous concept dreamt up by cynical right-wingers to justify war for [insert your choice of conspiracy theory here], but is something very real, and worth making sacrifices for. She believes this, even though her son wasn't a combatant. She has the kind of intestinal fortitude and integrity you just wouldn't find in many soft-living Westerners nowadays. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-14 7:43:55 AM |
| #4 I don't blame anyone in Bulgaria, everything that could be done was done. Refreshing to read clear thinking. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-14 7:32:50 AM |
| #3 I hope we get this Zarqawi shithead alive - straight to Diego Garcia for a spin on the electrodes. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-07-14 5:59:19 AM |
| #2 From a BBC report: "...Mr Lazov's mother said that she "sensed" it was her son who had been killed. "I don't blame anyone in Bulgaria, everything that could be done was done," she said..." |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-14 5:44:30 AM |
| #1 Money is more important than anything ellse ! |
| Posted by: Anonymous55492 2004-07-14 1:39:24 AM |