Posted on 02/01/2005 9:27:11 AM PST by 1LongTimeLurker
It's a figure....probably one made by Dragon or another company. It's obvious from the rifle, as well as the stiffness of the main subject's pose.
HHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
That doll is a white dude.
we should not let the meia forget this little episode. They fell for it because they wanted it to be real.
it goes from "gee, i hope this isn't true" to, frankly,
muahahahhahahahahahahahahahhah
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1945 State of the Union Address
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"And I would express another most serious warning against the poisonous effects of enemy propaganda.
The wedge that the Germans attempted to drive in western Europe was less dangerous in actual terms of winning the war than the wedges which they are continually attempting to drive between ourselves and our allies.
Every little rumor which is intended to weaken our faith in our allies is like an actual enemy agent in our midst--seeking to sabotage our war effort. There are, here and there, evil and baseless rumors against the Russians--rumors against the British--rumors against our own American commanders in the field.
When you examine these rumors closely, you will observe that every one of them bears the same trade-mark--"Made in Germany.
We must resist this divisive propaganda--we must destroy it -with the same strength and the same determination that our fighting men are displaying as they resist and destroy the panzer divisions."
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hehe.. not so baseless.
Ah, you remember Mr. Bill?! LOL
ROTFL! (#143)
Far from it my friend. And in other news
Uday Is Alive(just)
Ain't he well "armed" for a hostage?
DUBAI (Reuters) - A picture of an "abducted" U.S. soldier in Iraq (news - web sites) appeared on a Web site on Tuesday, but suspicion grew it was a hoax after a U.S. toy maker said it appeared to show a model soldier made by the company.
"Our mujahideen ... have managed to capture the American soldier John Adam after killing a number of his colleagues," said the Mujahideen Squadrons in the undated statement on a Web site monitored in Dubai. It threatened to kill him.
But Liam Cusack, marketing coordinator for California-based Dragon Models USA, said the picture appeared to show a special forces operative figure the company had made for collectors.
Defense officials at the Pentagon (news - web sites) in Washington said the U.S. military had no indication any of its soldiers were missing in Iraq.
Cusack said the striking similarity between his company's action figure, which was marketed under the name "Cody," and the published picture, were pointed out to him early on Tuesday by an Arizona retailer.
"I worked on the development of that figure so I had seen the look of that head before," Cusack said. "We don't want to be the ones to say that it is (a hoax) for sure. Because if there is a search and rescue, that needs to be done."
Cusack, speaking from his office at City of Industry, California, noted the rifle being pointed at the figure in the photograph posted on the Web site also appeared to be the plastic M4 rifle included with the figure.
The message and photograph were posted on a site run by a group calling itself al-Muntada al-Ansar, which has in recent months restricted access to the site to registered users in an effort to avoid unknown groups posting messages.
The site has been the main channel of communication in recent months for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Insurgents in Iraq, including al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, have been waging attacks on U.S.-led forces since they invaded the country in 2003. (Additional reporting by Kevin Krolicki in Los Angeles) Terrorists are idiot !
Interestingly enough, the NYTimes, CNN and USAToday are not running any stories about the toy soldier on their front pages right now. I have to wonder why?
:: In best Dan Blather tone ::
Well, you see, the insurgents do kidnap people and they do demand such things so even though we cannot prove the authenticity of this particular photo we here at 60 Minutes II stand behind our story and this photo."
She comes with GI Joe, and fakes it with Ken.
As Woody Sez: "You are a TOY! You are not an [American Soldier] you're an ACTION FIGURE!!!!!"
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