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2008-11-14 Great White North

Abducted Canadian journalist was working for Al Jazeera

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Posted by ryuge 2008-11-14 08:53|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 She's not a journalist, she's the enemy. Let her rot.

Posted by Parabellum 2008-11-14 10:42|| 2008-11-14 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder if she has a cousin named Yvonne Ridley, another journalist *cough cough* who went muzzy in Afghanistan.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, AK 2008-11-14 11:11|| 2008-11-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Converted at age 46? Some sort of new midlife crisis crap?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-14 12:27|| 2008-11-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Converted at age 46? Some sort of new midlife crisis crap?

In the seventies, she would have been a leftist radical, maoist or similar brand of marxist revolution, but islam is the new "Strong Horse"... so she converted, and there probably was a lot of "lost" westerners like her, in Europe as well as in the USA, people who found an outlet in islam, militant or not, to "escape" (what passes for) modernity and that they hate in some way or an another.
Again, a classical article (about th emore political aspect of that):
The Reds, The Browns and the Greens or The Convergence of Totalitarianisms

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-14 12:33|| 2008-11-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmm. Wandering around in an area that servicemen and women wouldn't go to without air cover and superior firepower, and probably without an approved male relative as an escort, to boot.

I'm sure Al Jazeera will be busting @ss to get her out of there. Not.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-14 14:39|| 2008-11-14 14:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Wandering around in an area that servicemen and women wouldn't go to without air cover and superior firepower, and probably without an approved male relative as an escort, to boot. Must have a death wish. Or maybe this is yet another ransom demand scam to raise $ for the Jihad.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-11-14 15:29|| 2008-11-14 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be a scam.

Could be a white woman traveling around, and that without proper escort, with pen paper knows how to read write, might have ipod or other music device. "But I'm Canadian I mean you no harm";
"Canadians try to kill us! You are curfew violation! You read and dance! I keeelll you!"
"wait Achmed, she is white we could try to sell her..."

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-14 15:41|| 2008-11-14 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Did she have a maple leaf on her backback?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2008-11-14 23:12|| 2008-11-14 23:12|| Front Page Top

#9 I forgot what I was going to say.

Posted by Captain Ebbuse2407 2008-11-16 16:20|| 2008-11-16 16:20|| Front Page Top

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