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Kidnapped American in Iraq Shown on Video
AP ^ | FierceKulak

Posted on 04/13/2005 2:17:18 PM PDT by FierceKulak

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Indiana man, scared and clutching his passport to his chest, was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, two days after he was kidnapped from a water treatment plant near Baghdad. The station said he pleaded for his life and urged U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq.


TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq

1 posted on 04/13/2005 2:17:18 PM PDT by FierceKulak
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To: FierceKulak

The fierce and brave Muslim armies are at it again. Unable to defeat anybody on the field of battle, they have their women capture individual civilians. It is easy to see why God does not smile on them.


2 posted on 04/13/2005 2:20:17 PM PDT by ReadyNow
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To: FierceKulak

Cowards. Show your faces if you're so damn brave!!


3 posted on 04/13/2005 2:21:19 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: FierceKulak

Was this video aired anywhere?


4 posted on 04/13/2005 2:23:52 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: ReadyNow
Al-Jazeera television aka Jihadi-TV. They should shoot all their camera men b/c they are always around when bad things happen. I can't see it as a coincidence any more. They have embedded reporters all right..
5 posted on 04/13/2005 2:25:08 PM PDT by BayouCoyote (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: FierceKulak

Does anyone know where in Indiana this gentleman is from?


6 posted on 04/13/2005 2:26:35 PM PDT by Indiana Girl
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To: Indiana Girl

I know, I was curious myself.


7 posted on 04/13/2005 2:27:21 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Indiana Girl

The story says LaPorte


8 posted on 04/13/2005 2:30:34 PM PDT by Knute (W- Still the President!)
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To: Indiana Girl
Does anyone know where in Indiana this gentleman is from?

LaPorte


9 posted on 04/13/2005 2:31:28 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: FierceKulak

Oh, no ... that poor man.

I'll be praying for him.

Islam is EVIL.


10 posted on 04/13/2005 2:32:35 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: EggsAckley

Thank you to you and Knute for the info. I must have missed Laporte in the article.


11 posted on 04/13/2005 2:33:45 PM PDT by Indiana Girl
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To: BayouCoyote

Exactly. I am convinced that Al-Jihadi TV is nothing but a mouthpiece for Islamic terrorists. They are 100% complicit with the Jihadi terrorists (satan worshippers). This is not freedom of the press, it's direct action against the US interests.


12 posted on 04/13/2005 2:37:21 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberals) and gasoline producers and sellers- the cult of Satan)
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To: Echo Talon
Yeah, on al-Jazeera, Muslim terrorist central. They've aired actual beheadings in the past, but then they've aired the 'captured' G.I. doll hoax also. Unfortunately, this poor man talks and is real.

You have to understand, our sense of honor is not theirs'. To televise a kidnapped Muslim with an obvious death threat over him would bring down the whole world's anger, but if Muslims do it, it's just business as usual for the religion of peace. They have no shame as we know it, and they know how to play our media like the violin they never could invent.

13 posted on 04/13/2005 2:37:54 PM PDT by xJones
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To: mainepatsfan

I don't understand why these workers, and others do not have "micro chips" to be able to trace where they are.


14 posted on 04/13/2005 2:39:03 PM PDT by Old anti feminist
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To: FierceKulak

I pray for this man and his family. He better be right with the Lord because his time is short.


15 posted on 04/13/2005 2:39:28 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Conservatism: doing what is right instead of what is easy)
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To: FierceKulak

Meanwhile, the UN is blathering about how Islam needs to be defended from defamation. This is the worst defamation possible, to be a cult of evil and malice.


16 posted on 04/13/2005 2:43:05 PM PDT by FierceKulak
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To: Indiana Girl

You're most welcome.


17 posted on 04/13/2005 2:51:36 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Knute

oh wow i have been there before.


18 posted on 04/13/2005 2:52:50 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: TheBattman
This is not freedom of the press, it's direct action against the US interests.

RIGHT! I believe they are trying to get Al-jehadi on air in canuckastan right now. Funny thing is, they won't allow FOX on air. Go figure. IIRC, Rumsfield brought up al-jehadi in a press interview. Something about how they were always on site prior to something bad happening to our troops(IED). They know, and that makes them the enemy as far as I am concerned. Any muzzies/muzzie sympathizers wanna challenge me on it?


...Are those crickets I hear??
19 posted on 04/13/2005 3:05:19 PM PDT by BayouCoyote (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: xJones
but if Muslims do it, it's just business as usual for the religion of peace.

Exactly. It's obviously cool with our press, too, because they never seem to get upset when an American is beheaded. But "abuse" a Muslim terrorist by having a woman put a leash on him, and all hell breaks loose.

20 posted on 04/13/2005 3:05:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: xJones
They have no shame as we know it, and they know how to play our media like the violin they never could invent.

So true. Anyone who bows down 5x a day to pray to a pedophile lunatic is beyond help.
21 posted on 04/13/2005 3:13:22 PM PDT by BayouCoyote (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: FierceKulak

Why don't these chickenshit scum come out and fight like men?


22 posted on 04/13/2005 3:24:35 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: FierceKulak

Prayer bump.


23 posted on 04/13/2005 3:27:01 PM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: popdonnelly
Why don't these chickenshit scum come out and fight like men?

Because they are not men. They only target the weak, the young, and the innocent. And when they decide to attack the strong they normally do so using the dumb, the indoctrinated, and the demented (eg homicide bombers). These oafs think they are the modern incarnations of Saladin, but the truth is Saladin would probably slay them and stick their heads on a pike for cowardice!

I want to say these people are beasts, but i cannot think of a beast that does what these people do.

I also want to call them monsters, but monster by definition is an evil but worthy foe. These scum are not worthy. They are merely evil. They are not malevolent dragons that need to be slain .....they are a dark pestilence that needs to be disinfected. The Soviets may have been an evil empire, but they were a worthy foe. The Chinese shall some day be a foe like no other. But Jihadis are merely a collection of murderers!

Hence my term for them ......evil scum of the earth.

24 posted on 04/13/2005 3:49:52 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: Old anti feminist
I don't understand why these workers, and others do not have "micro chips" to be able to trace where they are.

If I was going to take a chance working in that part of the world as a civilian I wouldn't be without one.

25 posted on 04/13/2005 3:57:42 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Echo Talon

I'm originally from around there (got my wedding dress there).


26 posted on 04/13/2005 4:15:25 PM PDT by TwoSue
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To: BayouCoyote
Anyone who bows down 5x a day to pray to a pedophile lunatic is beyond help.

But they don't bow, they lift their rumps to him 5 times a day.

27 posted on 04/13/2005 4:18:27 PM PDT by xJones
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I'm listening and listening and the only thing I hear from CAIR's speakers are crickets. No calls for the immediate release... no denouncing this horrific act...

... just crickets.

28 posted on 04/13/2005 5:12:28 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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