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Iraqi commandos free Lebanese hostage
2004-08-02
Iraqi commandos freed a Lebanese hostage, a Lebanese foreign ministry source said, but there was no word on another Lebanese seized in a growing wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq. "Iraqi commando forces carried out a military operation on the kidnappers of Vlad Damaa and released him half an hour ago," the source said in Beirut, declining to give any more details. Damaa was seized at gunpoint on Friday from a construction concern he runs with a brother that sells prefabricated buildings to US forces in Iraq, his family said. No comment was available from Iraq's interim government, which is building up its own forces but remains heavily reliant on about 160,000 mostly US foreign troops for security.

The second Lebanese hostage, Antoine Antoun, was kidnapped from his Baghdad dairy along with a Syrian trucker by gunmen, relatives said. Antoun's tearful parents pleaded from their home in northern Lebanon for the safe release of the 29-year-old, who was also seized on Friday. "I say to the Muslim clerics and the Iraqi people, I am willing to sacrifice myself for my son and Iraq," said his father Robert. A growing wave of hostage-taking has hit Iraq since April as guerrillas wage a campaign to undermine US-led forces and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's interim government.
Aided and abetted by Arroyo's caving in to them.
Scores of foreigners from two dozen countries have been seized, most of them truckers working for foreign companies delivering supplies to US forces or Iraqi companies. At least eight hostages have been killed, four by beheading. In the case of the seven truckers, Kenyan Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere told a news conference in Nairobi all of them had been freed and were at the Egyptian embassy in Baghdad. But the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company which employs the seven truckers said they were still being held hostage. "They have not been released ... We are still negotiating," said Rana Abu Zaneih, a company spokeswoman.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#4  I still bet it were Kurds tho... Just a guess.

Preshawar is yiddish?
Well now that do explain a lot.
:)
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-02 5:56:56 PM  

#3  Iraqi commandos freed a Lebanese hostage

well how about THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2004-08-02 2:44:37 PM  

#2  and the reason that should stir me up is that "preshawar" sounds vaguely yiddish?

"You sit right down, you little presha ...."
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2004-08-02 2:43:40 PM  

#1  Usually Iraqi Commandos = Kurds.


And just to stir up LH:
calling themselves the Black Banners Division of the Islamic Secret Army

Let's form a secret army at RB a cross between the Skull un Bonz and the Salvation Navy and get it for you WholeSale Salvation Shoppe.

My nom de guerre is abu Hatfield code name Preshawar.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-02 2:34:28 PM  

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