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2005-06-15 Iraq-Jordan
Details emerge about Doug Wood's rescue
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Posted by Seafarious 2005-06-15 14:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Go Iraqis! I'm glad he is free and the Australian government didn't pay a dime. I also hope they string up the kidnappers with pig entrails along the streetlamps as a warning to any future people thinking about this line of work.
Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-15 15:27||   2005-06-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "Terrorism in the Grip of Aussie Justice."
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-06-15 15:29||   2005-06-15 15:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "He has been blindfolded, handcuffed, he has not been well looked after," Australia's counterterrorism chief Nick Warner said.

So, did Mr. Wood's captors not bother to follow the Geneva Conventions while he was being held? Seems to me ol' Saddy got better treatment at the hands of Americans than Mr. Wood at the hands of terrorists.

Now could someone please explain to me why the Geneva Conventions should be applied to captured terrorists..?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-15 15:29||   2005-06-15 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Did they take the "residents" outside and shoot them?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2005-06-15 16:49||   2005-06-15 16:49|| Front Page Top

#5 But did they piss on his Bible?
Posted by Spot">Spot  2005-06-15 17:02||   2005-06-15 17:02|| Front Page Top

#6 an Iraqi hostage also was freed, he said.

info from the tribe maybe.

/Cochise
Posted by Shipman 2005-06-15 17:14||   2005-06-15 17:14|| Front Page Top

#7 This is actually extremely impressive. As military operations go, it takes a lot more skill to get a hostage out alive than it does to kill terrorists. (Many hostage rescue attempts against hijacked airplanes have failed, even though the terrorists were isolated and did not have an army of informants keeping them apprised of their surroundings). If Iraqi units are capable of things like this, the terrorists are in deep doo-doo. It'll take time to wipe them all out, but the writing is on the wall.
Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei  2005-06-15 18:42|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2005-06-15 18:42|| Front Page Top

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