I still want The Few and The Proud to open an industrial-sized can of large-scale whoopass on 'em.This has gone beyond just being a curious story.
BTTT
BTW. A new talking point emerging with the DNC hacks on the Sunday shows this morning..
"Cheney Liability"
Ah yes. The old echo chamber at work again..
But this pig ain't gonna fly....
God bless America, and wish her a happy birthday today..
I also believe the first report that they killed him and are now denying it because they sense the approaching whirlwind. When justice catches up to these murderers, they won't like what Allah has in store for them.
These savages just threw a rock at the wrong hornets' nest. The CO's need to turn our Jarheads loose on these animals ....... they need to be squashed like the bugs that they are !!
The father said he was not a "fighter"!! Why was he a Marine, then?? I thnk this guy went over to the enemy.
These snatch-and-behead and remote detonation events are seen within their own camp as not only futile and counterproductive but lacking in honor. Not one missive from Osama failed to mention the willingness of his brigades to martyr themselves for the cause, which is their ONLY source of power. NOW who's the strong horse?
I still want The Few and The Proud to open an industrial-sized can of large-scale whoopass on 'em.I've got Fox on right now, but yesterday, I think on Fox, one of the guests expressed doubt as to the story that this execution occurred. I can only pray to God.
Hmmmm.....
The original claim of having kidnapped Hassoun — in a video aired last week on Al-Jazeera television, showing the blindfolded Marine with a sword brandished over his head — was issued in the name of “Islamic Response,” the security wing of the “National Islamic Resistance - 1920 Revolution Brigades,” rather than the Ansar al-Sunna Army.
This does seem strange. Could some other, rival, group be trying to place the blame on Ansar al-Sunna, in order to bring our wrath down upon them?
Hmmmmmm, this just gets curiouser and curiouser every day, doesn't it?
Since the mooslimes lie so much, which lie are we to believe?
Though that doesn't mean the bad guys wouldn't still kill him if they thought they could gain something by it (like proving how tough they were relative to rival groups - that dynamic would be part of the mix). Something for any Islamacists in the coalition armed forces to think about.
Militants in Iraq threaten to behead hostages, including U.S. marine
Chris Tomlinson
Canadian Press
June 28, 2004
BAGHDAD (AP) - Arab television broadcast videotapes Sunday of two men taken hostage by militants, one described as a U.S. marine lured from his base and the other a Pakistani driver for an American contractor. Insurgents threatened to behead them both.
Also, militants hit a coalition transport plane with small arms fire after takeoff from Baghdad's airport, killing an American passenger and forcing the aircraft to return. Earlier on Sunday, Turkey rejected demands by militants threatening to behead three Turkish hostages unless Turkish companies cease business with U.S. forces in Iraq.
Death threats against hostages as well as insurgent attacks on U.S. and Iraqi security forces have accelerated as Iraq's interim government prepares to assume sovereignty Wednesday. [surprise!]
The U.S. military confirmed that a marine named Wassef Ali Hassoun had been missing from his unit for nearly a week. It said it was unclear if he had been taken hostage, but Hassoun's name was on a marine "active duty" identification card shown by militants in the videotape aired by the Al-Jazeera network.
Late Sunday, Hassoun's family in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan confirmed that he was the kidnapped marine who appeared in the videotape.
"We accept destiny with its good and bad," Hassoun family friend and spokesman Tarek Nosseir said in a brief statement Sunday to reporters. "We pray and plead for his safe release."
In the video, the hostage had a white blindfold covering his eyes. He wore military fatigues, and his moustache was trimmed. The U.S. military said Hassoun was of Lebanese descent, though the Al-Jazeera report said the hostage's origins were Pakistani.
The kidnappers claimed to have infiltrated a marine outpost, lured Hassoun outside and abducted him. Al-Jazeera said the militants demanded the release of all Iraqis "in occupation jails" or the hostage would be killed.
They identified themselves as part of Islamic Response, the security wing of the National Islamic Resistance - 1920 Revolution Brigades. The name refers to the uprising against the British after the First World War.
The group, which has claimed responsibility for previous anti-American attacks, first surfaced in an Aug. 12 statement claiming the United States was hiding its casualty tolls in Iraq to help President George W. Bush's election chances.
U.S. officials believe the insurgency consists of several groups with different ideologies, among them Arab nationalists, former Baath party members and Islamic extremists.
Earlier Sunday, the Pakistani driver was shown on a tape broadcast by a different Arab television station, Al-Arabiya. The hostage displayed an identification card issued by the U.S. firm Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton.
Four masked men holding assault rifles across their chests said they would behead the Pakistani within three days unless Americans freed prisoners held at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad and three cities of central Iraq - Balad, Dujail and Samarra.
The gunmen said they captured the Pakistani near the U.S. base at Balad, 80 kilometres north of Baghdad. They did not say whether they were affiliated with any group,
The hostage, who gave his name as Amjad, urged Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to close his country's embassy in Iraq and to ban Pakistanis from coming to Iraq.
"I'm also Muslim, but despite this they didn't release me," he said, bowing his head. "They are going to cut the head of any person regardless of whether he is a Muslim or not."
It was unclear how either set of kidnappers was linked to Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who claimed responsibility for the decapitation deaths of American businessman Nicholas Berg and South Korean translator Kim Sun-il last week.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, an American soldier was killed Sunday when a rocket slammed into a U.S. base on the southeastern outskirts of the city, the military said.
Gunmen dressed in black killed six soldiers of the Iraqi National Guard, formerly the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, and wounded four others at a checkpoint in Jalawla, 120 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. In first reports of the attack on the transport plane, U.S. military officials said the aircraft was American. Later, however, Australia's Nine Network television said it was a C-130 transport from the Royal Australian Air Force. The plane was about 20 kilometres from the Iraqi capital when it was fired on and forced to return to Baghdad International Airport.
Australia Broadcasting Corp. radio reported that a passenger on the plane who died of injuries was a U.S. citizen. U.S. Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt also said the victim was believed to be an American, according to the report.
Attacks against coalition aircraft around Baghdad have occurred before, although no fixed-wing planes have been shot down. The main road linking the airport to central Baghdad also has become increasingly dangerous because of ambushes.
In Istanbul, Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul rejected demands by al-Zarqawi's group for Turkish companies to quit doing business with U.S. troops in Iraq to spare the lives of the three Turkish hostages.
"Turkey will not bow to pressure from terrorists," Gonul told the private CNN-Turk and TV8 television stations.
The demand was issued as Bush and other western leaders gathered in Turkey for a NATO summit Monday. Turkey, the only Muslim country in NATO, was put in a difficult position trying to balance alliance solidarity with national interests.
The U.S. mission in Iraq is deeply unpopular in Turkey, and it was feared that any killing of Turkish hostages could intensify anger against the United States.
More than 40 people from several countries have been abducted in Iraq since April - many of them released or freed by coalition soldiers. Several kidnappings have been blamed on the al-Zarqawi group.
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I would bet he is already dead. They screwed up, this is a holiday weekend and very few watch the news. He will pop up dead again on Monday or Tuesday. More shock value when done during the news cycle.
They don't want to kill this Marine,....they want to 'turn' him!
Big Propaganda stuff.......?