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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
St. Pancake's Folks Dang Near Kidnapped
2006-01-04
Lots of stuff in the article, but EFL
In a separate but completely believable incident on Wednesday which further underscored the growing lawlessness in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian gunmen burst into a house in and tried to kidnap the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 as she protested the impending demolition of a house in the southern Gaza town, according to their host.
growing lawlessness?
The five gunmen, who also appeared to be affiliated to the ruling Fatah movement, eventually relented after being told who their targets were, according to Samir Nasrallah, in whose house the couple was staying.

Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to stop it from demolishing Nasrallah's arms cache house. Her parents, Craig and Cindy, have repeatedly visited Nasrallah since. They left Gaza safely after the incident, Nasrallah said.
Yes, but will they be back?
Easier to be a witness to the truth from a few thousand miles away.
Posted by:Penguin

#17  Dang!

Missed 'em by that much!

/off Maxwell Smarter than the paleos
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-01-04 17:15  

#16  Not into womens attire, but I understand she looked flattened by a D9.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-04 17:14  

#15  Caterpillar Corrie?
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-01-04 17:11  

#14  I like "Our Lady of the Bulldozer" as well.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2006-01-04 17:07  

#13  YJCMTSU

Kinda make me feel sorry for ScrappleFace. How is is possible to compete with self-parodying buffoonery like the Dolphin Lady and this?

The funniest thing would be if the Paleos that hotwired the bulldozers to smash part of the wall between Egypt and Paleostine accidentally ran over St. Pancake's kidnapped parental units. But I'm not going to mention it because that would be mean-spirited, right?
Posted by: SteveS   2006-01-04 15:36  

#12  YJCMTSU
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-04 15:06  

#11  "St. Pancake" is one of the best names yet. :)
Posted by: mjslack   2006-01-04 13:58  

#10  I still wonder about the whole nature-versus-nurture thing, and this family leaves me none the wiser.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-01-04 13:47  

#9  The Pals should hand out get out of Kidnapping free t-shirts so the dump gunmen can know right away which targets are worth taking and which are not. Like the Corrie,s the Dolphin lady and the whiny kidnap victim from this week. They're just grabbing the worst of the lot.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-01-04 13:35  

#8  If only they'd gone through with the kidnapping . . . it would've been a crushing blow to the ISF. Knocked 'em flat, it woulda.

(I know, that's sick . . . but somebody had to do it!)
Posted by: Mike   2006-01-04 12:58  

#7  You can't write comedy like that. It would have been better if Mother Sheehan and Jesse "Hustler" Jackson were kidnapped along with them.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-01-04 12:53  

#6  stupid paleos. can't even get THAT right.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2006-01-04 12:10  

#5  Her parents, Craig and Cindy, have repeatedly visited Nasrallah since.


Some people just never learn, even after the loss of a child.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-04 11:55  

#4  The parents were released after the kidnappers looked at this link.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-01-04 11:27  

#3  And to add insult to injury...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants angry at the jailing of their leader stole two bulldozers Wednesday and smashed through the border wall between Gaza and Egypt.

Wonder if the mention of her name clicked on some lightbulbs in some Pali's little minds?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-04 11:27  

#2  Curses! Foiled!!!

And this was going to be so sweet.
Posted by: Ghost of Darwin   2006-01-04 11:25  

#1  They should've talked to the crazy British chick first...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-04 11:24  

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