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2006-03-25 Iraq
Released hostages refuse to help their rescuers
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Posted by Steve White 2006-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I'm kind of surprised they were held for four months by a criminal gang. I thought al Qaeda was in the market for Western hostages - i.e. they should have been sold a long time ago. Maybe al Qaeda is running short of cash, or it's hard to get a hold of al Qaeda middlemen these days.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-25 00:21|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-25 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 It looks more and more to me like these non-christians were in cahoots with their 'kidnappers' all along.

Unfortunately one of them was killed -- That is what happens when you willingly take the viper to your chest.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-03-25 00:24||   2006-03-25 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Canuck SF involved in Canuck PeaceNitWit rescue.

Send em back until they get some gratitude, or their heads handed to them.
Posted by Captain America 2006-03-25 00:27||   2006-03-25 00:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Assholes. They sacrificed their American cohort on the altar of Total Lunacy. For nothing. These shitheads are a total waste of skin. Take their water, Stilgar.
Posted by Jans Snomble4884 2006-03-25 00:28||   2006-03-25 00:28|| Front Page Top

#5 the only people who will care will be the next set of hostages that don't get rescued, thanks to these pious souls.
Posted by 2b 2006-03-25 01:09||   2006-03-25 01:09|| Front Page Top

#6 They must be French.
Posted by DMFD 2006-03-25 01:34||   2006-03-25 01:34|| Front Page Top

#7 who gives a shit if one got killed ? Lokks too me thats what they where there for in the first place
Posted by Ebbineque Gletle8901 2006-03-25 03:04||   2006-03-25 03:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Arrest them for being accomplices to murder I bet that starts talking.. They are all ungrateful wastes of human skin. Treat them as such.
Posted by SPoD 2006-03-25 03:42|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-03-25 03:42|| Front Page Top

#9 This is just a friendly fire incident from our enemy.

CPT is not gong to be grateful because it was action by their sworn enemy that secured their release.

They are not likely to cooperate with their enemy by providing intel about their ally.
Posted by badanov 2006-03-25 07:12|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]  2006-03-25 07:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Too bad we can't send them back....but at least that Scottish git went on record and said he didn't want our icky military saving his sorry ass. I suggest we honor his desire if/when he becomes a guest of the local hostage takers, and concentrate on others who don't suffer from incurable rectal cranio-insertion.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-25 08:29|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-03-25 08:29|| Front Page Top

#11 If there are any, DB.
Posted by lotp 2006-03-25 08:47||   2006-03-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#12 The Canadian SF involved was JTF-2 (Joint Task Force), our elite team. And they are mighty pissed off at the lack of thanks.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-25 09:34||   2006-03-25 09:34|| Front Page Top

#13 I agree - arrest them for accessory to murder. Put them in the pen right next to their hero Saddam.

I think at least an investigation is in order to see if they were 'really' kidnapped. Ask people in the neighrhood where they were found if they had been seen walking around.... partying... and carrying on with their captors.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-03-25 10:26||   2006-03-25 10:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Have the Iraqi government declare them persona non grata and deport them. If they reappear, make them disappear.
Posted by RWV 2006-03-25 10:40||   2006-03-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey Thinemp. Keep it quiet please. If the Canadian public becomes too aware, the Canuck bad asses may not be allowed to come out and play. They are great warriors and we need them on the team.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-03-25 11:14||   2006-03-25 11:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Scusi CL, you're quite right. Canada is nowhere near reaching a tipping point currently and so far left, they're deaf in that ear.

Just proud, lone tho' I might be. I take it mentioning our snipers is haram (LOL).
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-25 11:34||   2006-03-25 11:34|| Front Page Top

#17 50 soldiers, led by the SAS, including men from 1 Bn the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marines, as well as American and Canadian special forces

That's one hell of a rescue squad.
Posted by Matt 2006-03-25 12:55||   2006-03-25 12:55|| Front Page Top

#18 What chaps my hide is that men like Colin Powell or the recently lamented Desmond Doss are more "anti-war" than these Judas-loving filthpig Nazi supporters.

"Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good."
Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-03-25 15:19|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]  2006-03-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Perhaps, after four months with them, their captors wanted them to be found.
Posted by Darrell 2006-03-25 15:23||   2006-03-25 15:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Canada has a new conservative government. Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent two days this month visiting the troops in Kandahar. So I am not surprised to hear JTF-2 is in Iraq.

Harper said Friday in an interview on CTV that it's hard for him to comprehend why some Canadians have such deep-rooted objections to the military mission in Afghanistan.

Harper was asked by an interviewer: "Do you understand the Canadians who feel passionately that they (Canadian soldiers) shouldn't be there?"

Harper paused briefly and responded, "You know, in a way, I don't. In this case, I'm not sure what the case would be for not being there."

When it was suggested that people oppose the mission because it's not Canada's war, Harper quickly interjected.

"But it is our war. The entire world signed on to this mission."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/
story.html?id=40bc8a42-eb4c-488d-bcec-c576a99eb49d

This guy doesn't pull punches.
Posted by john">john  2006-03-25 19:19||   2006-03-25 19:19|| Front Page Top

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