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| StrategyPage: Update on hiker hostages |
| 2010-07-06 |
| Bit old but first article I've seen corroborating that the Iranians kidnapped the 3 US hikers from inside Kurdistan. June 25, 2010: In northern Iraq, Kurdish villagers, who saw three American hikers seized by Iranian border guards a year ago, came forward with eyewitness accounts of the incident. The villagers testified that the three Americans were on the Iraqi side of the border, when the Iranian border patrol troops, who frequently cross the border, showed up. The Iranians decided to grab the Americans, and quickly took their captives across the nearby border. Iran is trying the three hikers as spies, and trying to get the U.S. to offer ransom (freed Iranian terrorists, cash, tech, whatever) for them. |
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