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2004-04-07 Iraq-Jordan

Sadr's thugs took NYT journalist prisoner

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-04-07 11:51:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What do you bet this reporter'll be another Yvonne?

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-04-07 12:05:51 PM|| 2004-04-07 12:05:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "It was God who finished Saddam, not the Americans,"

Yeah, all those tanks were God's.

BTW -- I suspect they released the reporters once they were sure they were NYT. After all, they're all on the same side, aren't they?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-07 12:24:23 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-07 12:24:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 After all, they're all on the same side, aren't they?

RC -- you beat me to it. I was just going to say that.

Posted by Infidel Bob 2004-04-07 12:46:08 PM|| 2004-04-07 12:46:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm glad that Burns got out of the situation, since he seems to be just about the only mainstream reporter in Iraq who consistently focuses on the facts rather than promoting some some agenda.

It's still surprising to me that he works for the NYTimes -- but I'll read any article he writers, in spite of that.

Posted by snellenr 2004-04-07 12:51:19 PM|| 2004-04-07 12:51:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 RC and Infidel Bob, if John Burns is one of the reporters indetified in the story, remember that he is one of the good guys (read, "not suffering from cranio-rectal compaction").

Burns is the one who broke the story last year on how many (most?) of the major media reporters in Baghdad sucked up to Hussein's regime to get stories.

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-04-07 1:46:08 PM|| 2004-04-07 1:46:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess there's an exception in every bunch, but I still think the jihadis freed them because they're NYT.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-07 2:03:21 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-07 2:03:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know...there is something about this story that sounds a bit unrealistic to me. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't sound quite right.

Posted by B 2004-04-07 2:59:04 PM|| 2004-04-07 2:59:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm trying to figure out if this incident is the same thing as the reported capture of unnamed foreign journalists that hit the air in the last few hours or not. What do y'all think?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-04-07 3:16:53 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-07 3:16:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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