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2005-02-01 Iraq-Jordan
Web Site Claims GI Captured in Iraq
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Posted by tu3031 2005-02-01 1:32:41 PM|| || Front Page|| [11165 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 It's a GI Joe doll. See Michele among many others.

Rumor has it that they also hold Carrot Top hostage.
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2005-02-01 4:15:47 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-02-01 4:15:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh no! They've captured G.I. Joe!

IT'S A HOAX!! Check out Drudge: http://www.drudgereport.com/

We have to publish this in every newspaper and on every TV channel to show how spent the "insurgency" is.
Posted by Tibor 2005-02-01 4:17:40 PM||   2005-02-01 4:17:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 If they behead him, at least it will be easy to fix.
Posted by sludj 2005-02-01 4:23:01 PM||   2005-02-01 4:23:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The depravity -- they even abuse toys!
Posted by Tom 2005-02-01 4:23:06 PM||   2005-02-01 4:23:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Wotta buncha maroons. The AP are such loooooosers. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-02-01 4:27:10 PM||   2005-02-01 4:27:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dude, I bet that toy is expensive. I'd spank my kid if he beheaded it. ;)
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2005-02-01 4:27:30 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2005-02-01 4:27:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 No! NNNOOoooooo! not GI Joe!!

They've gone to far now!

I quit! I surrender!
Posted by TomAnon  2005-02-01 4:30:04 PM||   2005-02-01 4:30:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol!

Hmmm... So, how much did Dragon Models pay the US Govt for the right to G.I. Joe's image? Intellectual property, dude. For export, make the fee 100x.
Posted by .com 2005-02-01 4:31:23 PM||   2005-02-01 4:31:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fark called it early this afternoon...go read the thread; it's hysterical!
Posted by Seafarious  2005-02-01 4:33:15 PM||   2005-02-01 4:33:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sea - I've found I can't go to Fark anymore. I get distracted by the Boobies links. But thanks, anyway, heh. ;-)
Posted by .com 2005-02-01 4:34:54 PM||   2005-02-01 4:34:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 But CBS authenticated it!
Posted by H8_UBL 2005-02-01 4:40:37 PM||   2005-02-01 4:40:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well they sucked me in. But they also sucked the AP in, so I don't feel so bad.
Posted by tu3031 2005-02-01 4:43:24 PM||   2005-02-01 4:43:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "They're all going to laugh at you!"

/Carrie's mom
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 4:43:55 PM||   2005-02-01 4:43:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It's ok to behead him, just don't cut his hair.
Posted by 2b 2005-02-01 4:44:14 PM||   2005-02-01 4:44:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 The title of the link above now says:

U.S. Military: No Soldier Missing in Iraq
Posted by SwissTex  2005-02-01 4:45:02 PM||   2005-02-01 4:45:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 But there's a poor child, somewhere in Islame, who's crying his eyes out cuz daddy took his GI Joe...

It's For The Children™ that I weep...
Posted by .com 2005-02-01 4:48:20 PM||   2005-02-01 4:48:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 They're lucky they didn't try to capture the GI Joe w/Kung Fu grip!
Posted by Stephen 2005-02-01 4:58:41 PM||   2005-02-01 4:58:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 If President Bush wishes to organize a rescue mission, I'll gladly donate my Six Million Dollar Man doll. It has a bionic grip, bionic vision, and there are tool compartments in the legs.
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 5:01:16 PM||   2005-02-01 5:01:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 This is a job for "Stretch Armstrong"!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-02-01 5:06:12 PM||   2005-02-01 5:06:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 No BH, we want to send the Bionic *woman*. That would really get the islamists knickers in a knot.....

Damn, I forgot about Stretch Armstrong......
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-02-01 5:08:59 PM||   2005-02-01 5:08:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Gonna need a rapid insertion... lemme see if I can find my Evel Knievel Snake River rocket car here somewhere...
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 5:12:06 PM||   2005-02-01 5:12:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Jonah Goldberg at The Corner:

If reports are true and the terrorists have murdererd one of our dolls, we must stand firm. We will destroy ten of their dolls. We will smash their rock-em-sock-em robots. And we will leave the lids of their Play-dough until it grows dry and flaky!

We cannot tolerate this aggression.
Posted by Seafarious  2005-02-01 5:19:17 PM||   2005-02-01 5:19:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Still, they're efforts deserve a reward. We should execute 1 Jihadi prisoner for each hour they hold they're 'hostage.' Fair is fair after all.
Posted by Silentbrick  2005-02-01 5:20:39 PM||   2005-02-01 5:20:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Jihad watch has an interesting item on this.

GI hostage's mother pleads for son's life
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-02-01 5:29:36 PM||   2005-02-01 5:29:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 RESCUE - RESCUE
This is a job for.....

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-01 5:31:18 PM||   2005-02-01 5:31:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 CNN reports that the doll is Dragon Models USA's "Special Ops Cody". Could they have given him a whiter name? Maybe Special Ops Logan, or something?
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 5:51:14 PM||   2005-02-01 5:51:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 I just knew his mom's name was Barbie ;o)
Posted by badanov  2005-02-01 5:52:52 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif]  2005-02-01 5:52:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 No, we yield.. time to send that muslim Barbie to (the children of) Ramadi. I'm sure we can find other appropriate ones to send as well.

Sounds like work for Operation Give!
Posted by Dishman  2005-02-01 5:53:23 PM||   2005-02-01 5:53:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 This is serious folks. A true hostage situation in the making. Latest intelligence reports the teenage jihadis are demanding a hostage exchange (NSFW). Reports say they are holding out for the post bomb belt model (definitely NSFW) since they can relate to it better.
Posted by ed 2005-02-01 5:56:48 PM||   2005-02-01 5:56:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 


Cody's wife pleads with Zarqawi for safe return.
"He is anatomically correct. Don't hurt anything!"

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-01 5:58:35 PM||   2005-02-01 5:58:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Dammit, Ed! I sprayed coffee! LMAO!
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 6:01:24 PM||   2005-02-01 6:01:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 Give me back my kid or I'll take out Mekkah!
Posted by .com 2005-02-01 6:09:03 PM||   2005-02-01 6:09:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 BH-

My cousin who is a bit older than me managed to save most of his old toys from childhood; he still has all those original GI Joe toys; he has the model of Frendship 7 gemini capsule with Joe as an astronaut; Joe as WWII soldier, Joe as WWI soldier, etc. I think the Orbiter capsule and the GI Joe Jeep and Footlocker were the most interesting, but he has lots of them I have never seen. Wotta nerd! ;-)
Posted by Mark E. 2005-02-01 6:48:13 PM||   2005-02-01 6:48:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 This made my day. I have a history of hoaxing the media, crop-circles and that sort of thing, but I would never have attempted something this lame.
It amazes even me to see how gullible they really are.

Besides AP; CNN, Al-Guardian, Das Independent and several local outlets ran with the story. Better yet, posters at DU and other LLL cesspools are STILL defending its authenticity, complete with now-hilarious pontifications about the exploitation of African-Americans and all that.

It is wonderful to see the Institutional Media Culture, the Beast, collapsing before our very eyes. Better yet, most of its legions of slaves are blissfully unaware of this and remain as arrogant and pompous as ever. This means that the Beast will take them all with it as it goes down.

The torpedoed ship is fully submerged and headed for the bottom, and the rats haven't even thought about jumping overboard.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-01 7:07:39 PM||   2005-02-01 7:07:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 I have G.I. Joe! He'll wish the jihadis had captured him by the time I'm through with him.......bwhahahaha...
Posted by Cobra Commander 2005-02-01 7:10:24 PM||   2005-02-01 7:10:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Excellent summary, AC, heh. I wonder why I have no difficulty picturing you hoaxing the media, lol! Need any help? Lol!
Posted by .com 2005-02-01 7:14:11 PM||   2005-02-01 7:14:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Mark E - I had the footlocker AND the jeep (sadly lost to the ages) - the jeep had a spinner springmetal thing under the hood to make noise when you rolled it...
Posted by Frank G  2005-02-01 7:14:39 PM||   2005-02-01 7:14:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 Anyone have a "Cody"?
Lots of fun to be had with him now...
climbing the Eiffel Tower, beheading bin Laden...
Posted by Dishman  2005-02-01 7:17:30 PM||   2005-02-01 7:17:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 Many thanks, .com, and belated thanks for your wonderful remarks in response to my "bet the ranch" opinion piece the other night.

Btw, I suspect that this originated not with jihadis but with some anti-idiotarian hoaxer who has even less respect for the MSM than I do.
How is that possible, some may ask?
Well, I've long thought that the institutional media were a depraved whorehouse, but I never thought they were especially stupid. I have been proven wrong.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-01 7:22:45 PM||   2005-02-01 7:22:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 FWIW, my 14-year-old nephew (whose real GI father just returned from Iraq) now claims that he originated this, posing the pics and posting to the jihad website.
He's smart and he has the Cody action figure, but I still think he's pulling my leg.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-01 7:51:55 PM||   2005-02-01 7:51:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 Does your nephew have an Osama doll?
Cody posing with the Osama's head would be a great rebuttal.
Posted by Dishman  2005-02-01 7:55:18 PM||   2005-02-01 7:55:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 Does anyone know enough Arabic to tell whether or not the banner in the baqckground really says "There is no god but God and Muhammad is His prophet." ? Perhaps it says "The AP is a bunch or Arab Terrorist Tools."
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-01 8:12:44 PM||   2005-02-01 8:12:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 "Mattel sucks"
Posted by Frank G  2005-02-01 8:17:48 PM||   2005-02-01 8:17:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 Here's a link to the big picture
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-01 9:23:51 PM||   2005-02-01 9:23:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 LOL you can see the stucco blob at the bottom of the wall where it meets the concrete, It's very out of scale. The "bumps" on the wall are huge.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-01 9:36:04 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-02-01 9:36:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 COBRRAAA!!!!!
Posted by Cobra Commander  2005-02-01 10:18:09 PM||   2005-02-01 10:18:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 The wizard of Ott is on it with his usual witty satire.
Posted by GK 2005-02-01 10:23:01 PM||   2005-02-01 10:23:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 Gentlemen: Get a Kung Fu grip on yourselves.
Posted by Penguin 2005-02-01 10:29:19 PM||   2005-02-01 10:29:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Mark E.:

Unfortunately my brothers and I, being too old to play with GI Joes anymore but too young to realize they might be worth anything, gave all our stuff to my sister's kids to play with. And we had a bunch of stuff. She promptly turned around and sold it all.

Yep, family reunions are chilly affairs.
Posted by BH 2005-02-01 10:48:03 PM||   2005-02-01 10:48:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 This just in from the AP:

GI Joe Tortured In Response To Abu Gharib Abuse
LINK

Posted by 2b 2005-02-01 11:02:08 PM||   2005-02-01 11:02:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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