[Glenn]

also said al-Sadr officials

Will they get UN recognition soon enough?

[AmishDude]

Garen was working on a story about the looting of archaeological sites in Iraq (news - web sites) when he was abducted, said his fiancee, Marie-Helene Carleton.

I am suspicious. This was debunked some time ago. Time to do a Google search on this "journalist".

[AmishDude]

Micah Garen runs something called "Four Corners Media". Suspiciously, many of the organizations' sites are down. Reporters without Borders has the following:

"We were making a documentary film on the country's cultural history and the archaeological sites at risk inside the war zones, in the hope that they might soon be afforded some protection," she explained from New York City, where she resides. Micah Garen went missing on 13 August 2004, but for Ms. Marie-Hélène Carleton, kidnapping is the most likely explanation.

Uh huh...

He seems also to be a "French-American journalist". Some articles:

• War Within the War
• Looting continues at archaeological sites around Iraq
• Too Little, Too Late

Here's the summary: Looting is still going on, but not nearly as bad as right after the invasion. But it's still a really, really bad thing.

He's kind of amateurish, a Johnny One Note, but despite the places in which he's published, his biased articles don't have the firebreathing property that I expect.

I don't know how he explains the early reports of looting which were almost wholly false and wildly overexaggerated.

[JimRed]

Why would they want to harm their enablers?

[Cinnamon Girl]

Good news. I hope both he and the intepreter are freed soon.