"Please help me, please help me, these might be my last hours....

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Please help me, please British people ask Mr. (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair to pull the troops from Iraq and not bring them to Baghdad.

"Please, please I beg of you, the British people, to help me. I don't want to die like (Kenneth) Bigley. I beg of you, I beg of you."



:cry: I have no words......

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/22/iraq.kidnapping/index.html

Care's feedback page on the kidnapping: http://www.careusa.org/feedback/hassan.asp

[rkc3]

1. America is so ethnocentric, we have no idea why these people would

do this.

Sure they hate America, but it's not just for our freedom. Maybe if middle America knew that, we wouldn't be there.

This is worse than a train wreck.

[Snivi Yllom]

14. she's dead

or soon to be dead. Expect a really nasty blood curdling video that will shock Americans.

[951]

18. And you know what Americans do when they are "scared"

They support this dumbass for president

[Snivi Yllom]

21. dunno

Not sure how americans will react to video or the news of this woman getting butchered live.

I think her bloody execution will be the Madrid Train Bombing before the election.

[Snivi Yllom]

22. dunno

Not sure how americans will react to video or the news of this woman getting butchered live.

I think her bloody execution will be the Madrid Train Bombing before the election.

[patcox2]

32. Nah, Bush reached his low point with the first execution video.

The desecration of the bodies in Fallujah was the start of the public turning against Bush's Iraq policy. Images like this erode his approval ratings and support for the war. There is no comparison between public reaction to a report from Iraq that proves how screwed up Bush's war is, and an attack here in the US, that would have the opposite effect. Graphic images of the shitstorm in Iraq always make Bush look bad because they prove he's lying when he says everything is going great over there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. I'm worried about that too. :^(

[maxsolomon]

2. The kidnappers have released women hostages before

i hope that they retain enough basic humanity not to perpetrate this.

i'm not holding out much hope.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Nor do I have words --

[Misunderestimator]

4. Oh dear god...

The picture alone breaks my heart.

[donco6]

5. Hope they release her.

She's only done good things for Iraq.

[Javaman]

6. This is the face of morons glorious war

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Oh, God

This is horrible and I abhor the tactic being used. It's sub-human.

Hubby and I had a discussion about this when they first started abducting/beheadings. I can't imagine being in such a terrifying situation. As much as I'd want to live, be able to live out my life with my family, I'd like to think that I would have the courage to say do not negotiate. Chances are, I'd be killed anyway and negotiating would only fuel the fire for more innocent people to go through a similar, horrifying ordeal.

Bush should not have created this hell hole and must be held responsible. Him and all of the people he appointed that put this into play!

God, I feel for this woman's family and the heartwrenching reality they have to face. :cry:

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

8. Why did these dumb fucks kidnap HER?

She has worked as an advocate for the Iraqi people for decades. She considers herself an Iraqi. She is their friend, not their enemy.

If they kill her, they can't claim a cause. They will just be psychopaths who enjoy killing people.

[DrWeird]

19. Which is why you have to ask who kidnapped her.

Obviously the Iraqi resistance would have no motive for killing her.

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. Agreed. It has long seemed to me that some (not all) of these

'terrorists' might be provocateurs, maybe the long-fabled 'CIA within the CIA', out to show the enemy to be inhuman beasts who must be exterminated without quarter. Certainly,it could be the so-called foreign fighters, who have shown little regard for Iraqi civilians, but to what end? She is no collaborator to be made an example of. She was not brought in from exile, with the exiles, to aid the takeover.

Any target of kidnapping must be weighed against the risks, however minimal, of the operation. They don't just grab people at random.

So why her?

[Snivi Yllom]

25. people who cut off the heads of other human beings are not exactly

what I would call 'clear thinkers'.

They will kill her and say its punishment for US and British tropps occupying Iraq.

[Suspicious]

9. Is it just me,

or does this make absolutely zero sense? Why would they target this woman, of all people?

[noiretextatique]

16. not just you

wondering the same thing...

[DrWeird]

20. Timing is awfully suspicious.

I can think of two drastically different groups who would be interested in doing this, and neither are the Iraqi resistance.

[noiretextatique]

24. cheney's threat

vote for us...or else.

[DrWeird]

28. It'd make for quite an October Suprise.

I'm not sure who it would ultimately be good for.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. "Mission Accomplished", "Bring it on!" The price of hubris.

Bush is still waiting for the throngs of cheering Iraqis that are so delighted to have us subjugating their country.

Not to mention Blair getting doggie bone from the Glorious Leader at the cost of his own citizens.

[Auntie Bush]

11. Send that picture to Mr. bush to put on his dresser and another

one for his desk in the oval office. Oh never mind...it wouldn't do any good. I can just imagine him saying with pursed lips, "Please please, don't kill me".

Seriously...I feel so sorry for that poor woman. How can anyone experience such fear? God bless her!

[nonconformist]

12. Oh my god. Speechless. nt

[booley]

13. I don't understand why they took her anyway?

I mean, she was doing actual humnanitarian work for the iraqis. She has long been one of thier advocates. I can't see the iraqi population's response to this as being anything other then negative and the insurgents need the iraqi people's support to survive. I beleive that she is even an iraqi citizen

Are the insurgents as stupid as Shrub is in that they kill thier friends as quickly as thier enemies?

it just seems th ewhole point of this war for both sides is to just kill as horrificily as possible,

[TahitiNut]

15. I have a hard time believing "they" are the same "they" ...

... for each kidnapping. This one, in particular, is just too inconsistent with others. I'm not buying the spin on this.

[Suspicious]

17. "I'm not buying the spin on this."

Neither am I. It reeks to high heaven.

[Rose Siding]

26. I wish we knew how the press in Iraq is reporting this

If she's generally respected there, sympathy for her could sway public opinion.

The old question, "who profits", is easy to overlook.

[prayin4rain]

23. Didn't "they" let the reporter go after they googled him?

So, if they google her they will certainly let her go, right? Or are these a different "they"?

OOOps I just read TahitiNut's post......yeah I'm with you!

[Zorra]

27. Tony Blair or Bu$h should be stand up guys and offer to take her place.

And let her go free. They are fully responsible for her situation.

That is what a real leader would do.

You can bet all British troops would be drinking beer in their local pubs by the end of the week.

The only value Bu$h and Blair place on human life is as expendable cannon fodder to be used to boost corporate profits.

[Radio-Active]

29. expect a triumphant rescue, close to election day;

a la Jessica Lynch.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. You sayin she's the October surprise?

Could be - they kidnap someone everyone can sympathize with and then "rescue" her

:shrug:

[Tyler Durden]

31. "Please don't Kill me!"

Spoken by George Bush as governor of Texas....Shit, you guys all know the story.

If Bush stays in office, this country has no moral reason to exist.

[Dark]

35. My god.

Words fail me.

I hope everything turns out alright.