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Naive journo’s hell tale as Somalia hostage
New York Post ^
| September 1, 2013
| MAUREEN CALLAHAN
Posted on 09/01/2013 4:27:35 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Bored with her life and fresh off a New Years Eve epiphany, a 24-year-old Canadian named Amanda Lindhout quits her job as a cocktail waitress and decides to become a journalist. To get famous fast, shell start in Afghanistan, landing in Kabul in May 2007. She moves on to Iraq in January 2008, and is held hostage for several hours in Sadr City before paying off her captors.
Affirming that I have the world in the palm of my hand, she has written in her journal. Amanda has no training and is using TV Reporting for Dummies as her manual. She gives an interview in which she says every other journalist in Baghdad, aside from herself, is too scared to leave the Green Zone. Shes so naive, she doesnt realize her fellow reporters fancypants, she called them will see this boast online.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: lindhout; muslims; somalia
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Naivete, thy name is liberal.
To: ConservativeStatement
Liberal woman + muslim country + public leftist education = hostage, rape and/or death
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:34:43 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:36:08 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: carriage_hill
The part about her BF and the ransom is spectacular. I wonder if that is a reason the two don’t communication. Nah, he must be shallow.
To: ConservativeStatement
This is without a doubt the most arrogantly stupidest woman I've ever heard of. She's not only a danger to herself but anyone she comes in contact with. I doubt this moron knows just how lucky she is to be alive. She could have been gang-raped to death or raped and then sold into slavery and never heard from again. Unfortunately Canada and the UK are fool of moral idiots like this woman. And the US is too. Rachel Cory is a prime example.
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:40:39 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Sounds like she didn’t learn. She went back to Somalia. The liberal mind is hermetically sealed.
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:42:57 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: ConservativeStatement
I wonder if she learned anything?
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:44:52 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: ConservativeStatement
They’re both lucky they got out alive. Many don’t. Plus, she had a muzzie’s kid.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:02:41 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: null and void
I wonder if she learned anything?
Does not sound like it. The outright support for radical islam by the left defies logic and explanation beyond their shared hatred for the West.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:07:11 PM PDT
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: ConservativeStatement
You could learn a lot from this girl. A real survivor this one.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:15:07 PM PDT
by
tupac
(the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe)
To: tupac
Let me get this right .... do something extremely stupid then suggest that something could be learned .... a real survivor ... I don’t think so.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:17:10 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
To: ConservativeStatement
This was a good experience for a liberal.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:18:32 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: ConservativeStatement
Wow, quite an amazing story..hard to believe someone can be that incredibly naive and stupid rolled into one person...
...and she gets to vote...
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:21:52 PM PDT
by
Popman
(PTRD (Post Traumatic Racism Disorder)....coming to a court room soon....)
To: Popman
yeah, but she only gets to vote in canada, so no big whup.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:25:20 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: ConservativeStatement
This astoundingly, world-record beating self-centered selfish woman...I don't know how she dare show her face in public, much less "tell her story". I cannot believe the selfishness in this POS to talk another human into doing this (not that he's lacking in his own stupidity and weakness), then blithely getting them into such a situation, then attempting to save her own life with the money his family raised, and to hell with him, as far as she's concerned. Just think, bitches like this will be in the military, putting men's lives in danger. I know this is utterly politically incorrect, but females just have a different kind of survival instinct and sense of loyalty, especially when men are involved, and have no business being one of the links in that chain. It's an extraordinary woman who will sacrifice herself for anything other than her children, and especially for grown men. It's just not one of the basic instincts provided to most women.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:28:42 PM PDT
by
mrsmel
(toOne Who Can See)
To: ConservativeStatement
Incredible story, and she still won’t reveal how bad it really was, what a whack case she is.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:32:33 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: 2banana
Having read this story elsewhere, i have concluded she is/was trouble. To be avoided.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:35:40 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: RetiredTexasVet
Went through hell and shows great courage. Winner baby.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:37:44 PM PDT
by
tupac
(the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe)
To: ConservativeStatement
Now that is a special kind of stupid.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:41:14 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
To: ConservativeStatement
Poor thing. Best that intelligent people can do is steer well clear of her.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:44:14 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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