Air America: 2 US Soldiers and civilian kidnapped; CNN: "several" civilian

[Renew Deal]

Breaking

[Qanisqineq]

1. on CNN, too

they said 2 soldiers MIA from attacked fuel convoy, at least 2 American civialians missing

[saigon68]

15. They won't show this on the NEOCON TV Network

Soldiers of the Salvadoran Army carry a coffin with the remains of their colleague, Natividad Mendez, at Comalapa air base, 40 kms (24 miles) south of San Salvador (news - web sites), April 9, 2004. Mendez was killed on April 4 during a violent demonstration that left another 12 Salvadoran soldiers wounded in Nayaf, Iraq (news - web sites). The Salvadorans, who are serving in Iraq are under a Spanish command, are part of an international force that include troops from Central America. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez

[wuushew]

2. I predict a grandiose Raygunesque speech by the end of the week

"...blah blah we do not negotiate with terrorists"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. Reagan got us into the messy business of negotiating

with terrorists. It's now up to Bush to get us out of it.

[Zynx]

19. Reagan is the ONLY president, I think, to negotiate with terrorists.

[k in IA]

3. CNN said "several civilian contractors" were missing.

This was from the convoy attack this morning.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Didn't the tanker explode?

I would think they were incinerated.

But if they were kidnapped at least they are alive and we can hope for their safe return.

[k in IA]

5. Not everyone was killed.

[doni_georgia]

6. What's it going to take

to get our troops out of there? What are we fighting for? Seriously? We supposedly went there because Iraq had WMD. We know now they didn't. We saw Saddam as a threat for backing terrorism - he's gone. Terrorism is increasing in Iraq daily. Each day we are in there we are adding to the validity of the Islamic extremists claims that this is a war on Islam. Every day we stay there we empower terrorists to hate the US and attack us. It's a fact. you cannot fight a war against a tactic of war. We've been down this road before - can't we learn from past mistakes. In Nam we had no clue who was friend and who was enemy. We are facing the same in Iraq. This administration is willing to sacrifice young American lives for their own personal agenda. We've ostrasized ourselves worldwide. Bush accused the Clinton administration of nation building during the 2000 election, but what the hell has this admin been doing since 2001? They want to put in a US friendly government in IRaq, but any US puppet regime will be overthrown. We are making enemies of all the Iraqi people and all the Muslim world. I'm sick of the whole mess. I have friends risking their necks in Iraq for an administration that doesn't honor their sacrifice.

[nodehopper]

12. What are we fighting for? OIL. NOTHING else.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. and don't forget nationalism. and revenge. and Jesus. n/t

[Malva Zebrina]

17. I understand your angst

but it is not "terrorism" that is increasing. It is "resistance"

You know. It is the same resistance we in this country engaged in against the king George.

We invadeed their defenseless ocuntry, we killed their children and now they resist this occupation because they are geing robbed of everything they are entitiled to.

They are being robbed because American corporations want their stuff--their oil

They are akin to the French resitance. They are NOT terrorists

[bpilgrim]

7. haven't heard anything on AIRAMERICA yet

but who can be suprised if this is true :argh:

peace

[Just Me]

9. Weird. There is an AirAmericaDude posting on a thread about,...

,...the refugees streaming out of Fallujah,...

It doesn't mean anything except that it is just weird timing.

I also "noted" that all the kidnappings are not yet,...ummmm,...what was the word they used,..."fully determined",...or something like that.

Downward spiralling,...downward, downward, plunging. Will the American people finally begin to THINK about why we are really there and who will actually benefit from all this?

[girl gone mad]

10. How will the cons spin this one?

They've been saying that the Japanese hostages were really war protestors who staged their own kidnapping.

[nodehopper]

13. assholes. unbelievable.

[54anickel]

18. No way! Really? I haven't heard that one, but it's getting pretty hard

to keep track these last few days.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. Link from Reuters

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Iraqi Insurgents Say Seize Six Foreigners
Fri Apr 9, 2004 03:27 PM ET

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents said they had seized four Italians and two Americans on the western outskirts of Baghdad Friday but Italy said all Italians registered in Iraq were accounted for.

A Reuters journalist saw two captive foreigners, said by the insurgents to be Italians, being hauled into a mosque in a village in the Abu Ghraib district.

One was wounded in the left shoulder, apparently from a gunshot. Both were weeping. They were wearing close-fitting dark blue t-shirts.

LINK

From Another Source:


NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Two Americans were seized by Iraqi insurgents on the western edge of Baghdad, the Reuters news service reported Friday.

The Americans were said to have been taken to a mosque, where four Italians who were also reported seized in a separate incident were being held, Reuters reported.

U.S. soldiers in a tank in the area near the village of al-Dhahab al-Abyad told Reuters they had been told Americans had been taken but had no details

LINK

[ninkasi]

14. I wonder if Whistle Ass

will bother to interrupt his latest vacation to get us the hell out of the war he was determined to start? There has been too much bloodshed on both sides; he has almost completely destroyed our country to satisfy his own desires. It's time for America to wake up, and demand that he get us out now.

We can no longer afford to be led by madmen and crooks.

[daleo]

16. I think they will become pawns in a propaganda war now

If BFEE is really planning a large scale atrocity in Fallujah, he could use a small scale atrocity about now to help in the propaganda justification. For political reasons, I think he would prefer that these hostages die, and in as public a fashion as possible. If this does happen, it will be on CNN, etc. constantly, to provide psychological cover for the Fallujah operation. This madness gets worse every day.