Posted on 07/10/2004 8:04:12 AM PDT by kattracks
MANILA, Philippines - Insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) have freed a Filipino truck driver whom they kidnapped and threatened to behead, the Philippine labor secretary quoted the president as saying Saturday."While this man is still not in our hands, he will be brought to a hotel in Baghdad, where he will be turned over to our people," said Labor Secretary Patricia Santo Tomas, who was staying with the hostage's family in a hotel at the former U.S. Clark Air Base.
Great news.
At what cost?
They agreed to pull out their troops, and suspend schedule deployments.
Score another victory for the Jihadists.
Undated handout picture of Filipino worker Angelo de la Cruz, who was kidnapped in Iraq. The family of a Filipino driver kidnapped in Iraq appealed to the government on July 9, 2004 to bring him home as diplomats tried to contact militants threatening to behead him unless Manila withdraws its forces. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
They were scheduled to pull 51 personnel in August.
Anyone tell me what that shirt says and whose flag that is? (I think it's a flag).
Flag appears to say France...Dark Blue, white, Red...You can find it via google!!!!
So they saved one guys head in return for how many in the long run?
They also had the option of extending their deployment.
The actions of the Jihadists made that decision for them.
They are weak, but this is the price you pay when you strive for a coalition.
That's the way blackmailers work.
The Philippines is basket case of incompetence, corruption and poverty --- pretending they are a nation...
In their own land - they have plently of Islamists and Lunatics that need killing --- and an economy that survives on the exportation of their women to Arab and Asian lands for every purpose under the sun....
Semper Fi
Everyone Nation have to draw the line somewhere at some time, why not start early and save yourself more humiliation and destruction later?
How many Americans were taken Prisoner and/or murdered in the 1942 Philippines? Good thing for the Philippines we opted to extend out deployment.
About 10,000 in Corregidor and Bataan.
We also freed them from a brutal Japanese occupation, at a very high cost as well.
Yes, we'll certainly miss all 50 troops the Philipinos had stationed in Iraq.
Hardly the point.
The point is an entire country cowed in the face of a terrorist action.
I must have missed something here. Every article on FR pertaining to this subject states that they are pulling out "on schedual".
If their public education system is anything like ours, probably fewer than 5 in 100 are aware of the fact that we saved their asses not 60 years ago.
Excuse me, Pilipine government, but you might ask Vice President Cheney what you can do with yourself.
(And what you just did to yourself.)
Ive heard it said that in Pilippine culture, the wife rules the family. I wonder if that is why Philippine government is as strong as it is.
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