Hostage Held in Iraq Is Former Marine

AP ^ | Dec 7, 2005 | DAVE KOLPACK

[jmc1969]

Ronald Schulz was the captain of his high school cross country team and a four-year letter winner who won an award for practicing on 77 consecutive days, said Russ Schmeichel, who was his coach at Jamestown High School.

Family and friends said Schulz, 40, is the blond, Western-looking man sitting with his hands tied behind his back in a video broadcast Tuesday by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera. The video, bearing the logo of the insurgent Islamic Army, claimed insurgents had kidnapped a U.S. security consultant.

The video also showed a U.S. passport and an Arabic identification card with the name Ronald Schulz, but the spelling of the name was uncertain because it was written in Arabic.

Ronald Schulz graduated from Jamestown High School in 1983, then left to join the Marines.

"He came up here alone, and bought a big house," and hung a large U.S. Marine Corps banner in the front window, family friend Bonny Stark said.

[madison10]

Ya know, maybe the MSM shouldn't be blabbin' this info about. The guy's value as an expired hostage just went up with that bit of news.

The MSM is the most treasonous bunch in the U.S...right up there next to Lib Congresscritters.

[SevenMinusOne]

Ya know, maybe the MSM shouldn't be blabbin' this info about. The guy's value as an expired hostage just went up with that bit of news.

Exactly right! His family should have kept quiet as well - This does not help his situation at all -

[armymarinemom]

Thank you AP and ABC news for putting this man at great risk. I really hate our media.

[penelopesire]

Leave it to the LSM to blow the guys cover! God.. how I hate those people(forgive me)!

[SpaceBar]

It should now be obvious that AP newswire is an intelligence organ of global islamic terror groups.

[penelopesire]

Let's all pray as well.

[Youngman442002]

Treasonous....but they want him to die..it makes their point..and their headlines..

[Theresawithanh]

This is outrageous. Not that another reason was needed to hate the MSM...

[lizma]

Has anyone heard anything about Jeffery Ake taken hostage last April?

[penelopesire]

Sadly..you are right. 'Utter disgust' does not even begin to measure my feelings right now.

[Wristpin]

Ed Schulz, 42, said the FBI had asked family members to give reporters only limited information on his younger brother.

"I don't want to get my brother killed," Ed Schulz said. "But the fact that he has blond hair and blue eyes might get him killed.


Sheesh.....Then why discuss his military service?!!!!

[Wristpin]

I sending an email to ABC over this. Let's bombard them.

[StarCMC]

BTTT

[Baraonda]

"Treasonous....but they want him to die..it makes their point..and their headlines.."

Sorry, but I haven't heard/read that this marine wants to die. I doubt it very much he wants to.

Praying for this man's life.

[DTogo]

Ed Schulz, 42, said the FBI had asked family members to give reporters only limited information on his younger brother. "I don't want to get my brother killed," Ed Schulz said. "But the fact that he has blond hair and blue eyes might get him killed."

Associated Press Writer James MacPherson in Bismarck contributed to this story.

But the AP runs with this story anyway.

[penelopesire]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DAVE+KOLPACK&btnG=Google+Search

Google search on the AP writer..DAVE KOLPACK!! May a pox be on his house!! Sorry, folks..enough is enough!

[jmc1969]

Zarqawi would pay through the nose to behead a Marine.

[txhurl]

How has he been shown? With or without blindfold?

[nuconvert]

It sounds like it was his friends and neighbors who the media got to for the information.

[Wristpin]

There was a story the other day about a Contractor being kidnapped. The only photos I've seen are of the ethereal Peace Activists.

[JennysCool]

Bombard AP -- they're the originator of the story:

www.info@ap.org

[operation clinton cleanup]

"He came up here alone, and bought a big house," and hung a large U.S. Marine Corps banner in the front window, family friend Bonny Stark said.

Prayers for this hero to come home safe to his family and friends.

[Wristpin]

Yes...Not the brother..It was tough to read the partial article.

The gregarious neighbor effervesced the info.

[Chode]

RIP...

[Wristpin]

My email:

I cannot believe you people published information on the military service of the man held hostage in Iraq. You may have just signed his death warrant as the terrorist would like nothing better than to saw the head off of a US Marine. The writer notes that the brother stated the FBI warned not to release personal information, yet you released this information anyway.

Shame on you

[SpaceBar]

We have just witnessed Judas accepting the bag of silver.

[Enterprise]

Whoever was the source of this needs to be arrested. IMO it is gross negligence to reveal information which will guarantee his death.

[Fruitbat]

Ya know, maybe the MSM shouldn't be blabbin' this info about. The guy's value as an expired hostage just went up with that bit of news.

The MSM is the most treasonous bunch in the U.S...right up there next to Lib Congresscritters.

And you think knowing this is gonna help stop the media? It gives them excitement to do it. Anything to bring deaths to bring America down. No cost is too high for them to succeed in bringing America to its knees.

[creamnsugar]

Accessory before the fact.
If something happens to this marine it is on the authors head.
The news media in our country is beyond shameful


Thoughts and prayers for the marine and his family .

[TomasUSMC]

Too bad all those "Good" Shiite moslems don't round up 7200 Sunnis and hold them hostage until our guy comes home safe.

Or maybe we put hoods on the prisoners at Abu Graib and promise them they will be enjoying 72 virgins shortly unless we get our man back.

[creamnsugar]

Very sad =(

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