| Submit your comments on this article | ||
| Iraq-Jordan | ||
| Footage Shows 10 New Hostages in Iraq | ||
| 2004-09-30 | ||
| ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 This hostage-taking tactic is part of a twisted Islamic PR campaign whose end goal is to complete the alienation of America from the rest of the world. Of 3 recent abductees, 2 Americans were immediately put to death (that'll make the "punish America" folks in the world happy); the Brit's situation remains unknown (as does how resolved Tony Blair will remain in refusing to deal with jihadis who use this tactic)-his life is hanging by the thread of Britain's demeanor in this crisis. Think of who have been released: 2 "sympathetic" Italian women who simultaneously are running out their "newer, gentler jihadi" branding for the kidnappers. The Philippino hostages got their freedom through a commercial transaction that communicates the exact message the jihadis want to send: "see, we're not so difficult to deal with, we let your people go; it's only those Americans who won't be reasonable". These 10 hostages will likely be released as well, since killing them doesn't help the jihadists meet their main objective: isolate America in the world. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-30 12:28:05 PM |
| #3 "Al-Jazeera said the 10 were six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq." Well, that was stupid. Guess the Terror-Facists want to wipe out the ALL their Islamic jihadi buddies in Indonesia. Amazing. What were they thinking? Indonesia just elected an ex-general campaigning on an anti-terrorist/anti-corruption/pro-economic development platform. The Indonesians don't like the terrorists--and it doesn't matter to them, either, that the terrorists claim to be "Moslems." To the Indonesians, the terrorist-Moslems hold, as an idealized creed, what amounts to the antithesis of the Indonesian worldview. Just makes me smile to think what the response will be. Island justice. : ) ! |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-09-30 11:57:21 AM |
| #2 Hey, I just thought of a GREAT use for "human shields!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-30 11:49:07 AM |
| #1 And foreign civilians in Iraq are not armed to the teeth why, exactly? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-30 10:46:28 AM |