Posted on 11/17/2004 7:30:22 PM PST by Snapple
17 November 2004 -- Officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry are trying to confirm a report today that at least 31 police officers were kidnapped while returning from training in neighboring Jordan on 14 November.
The report came from one policeman, who says he escaped while some 20 armed men entered a hotel on near the Jordanian border where they were staying. He said the kidnappers hooded the unarmed policemen, tied their hands, and took them away.
The authenticity of the report could not be immediately confirmed.
In the northern town of Baiji today, at least five Iraqis were killed when a bomb exploded close to a U.S. patrol.
The city of Mosul, also in the north, was relatively quiet today after days of clashes between U.S. and Iraqi forces and insurgents.
In Al-Fallujah, U.S. and Iraqi forces were still hunting for insurgents after nine days of fighting that the U.S. military says has left some 1,600 insurgents dead.
this should make for a hell of a video.
The latest is they talked their way out of it.
That's good. Do you have any follow-up article?
Different note, related topic...Iraqi policemen are being trained in several different countries, and have been for several months. Yet, John Kerry claimed we needed to "start" doing this to speed up the pace of training Iraqi police. I never understood why the B/C campaign didn't explain that Kerry's "great plan" was already underway, and that he was a day late and a dollar short.
Maybe the countries taking them need to stay low-profile.
I trust you. You're my anti-heebie-jeebie.
Thank you..(I think!)
Thank you..(I think!)
That double Domino's crust pizza DOES look good!
do these iraqi police ever fire a weapon, anyplace but into the air for crowd control?
Iraq's Interior Ministry and the office of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said they had not been able to confirm the kidnapping, but Karbala Police Chief Karim Hajem told Reuters that the police “hid their police papers and told the gunmen they had been visiting Jordan on business.” The kidnappers then “let them go,” he added.
The recruits were part of a group of 56 returning to Karbala after undergoing training in Jordan. Hajem said some of the recruits had left the hotel where the abduction occurred before the incident.
MSNBC
That was very smart. Looks like they had a contingency plan in case something like this happened.
They were ready with their story.
You really have to admire these guys.
Need more troops, now.
Good news. Thanks..
E-mail the White House.
I don't have any troops.
any unconfirmed report out of the middle east is dubious. more often than not, it is terrorist propaganda.
President Bush did say in one of the debates, that he heard of John Kerry's "plan", and proceeded to say that It was the BUSH PLAN. I don't have the exact quote, but I know what was said.
If some terrorist ****heads tried to abduct me, I'd tell 'em "to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words." [to quote Woody Allen]
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