Posted on 09/08/2009 1:27:46 PM PDT by jacobny
Ynet has obtained a copy of the first letter kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit sent to his parents from captivity in September of 2006, just three months after his capture.
The letter was apparently written one month after the kidnapping, and in light of the many Arab phrases used was probably dictated to the soldier by his captors.
Go to link for copy of hand written letter
The letter says:
"To my mother and father, brothers and friends, I send you Shalom.
My health is deteriorating daily, I am especially struggling emotionally and this is causing me much depression. I am waiting for this intolerable human nightmare to end and to be released from the closed and isolated prison, especially since my 20th birthday has gone by, which I had hoped we would celebrate together.
I appeal to my government, and especially Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and defense Minister Amir Peretz, to do everything in their power to release me as soon as possible because every day that goes by hurts me more, and to consent to the requests of mujahideen that detained me from within a tank near Kerem Abu Salem. I hope you will do everything so that I can celebrate Rosh Hashana and Sukkot at home".
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“I hope you will do everything so that I can celebrate Rosh Hashana and Sukkot at home”
-Gasp..I dont even want to know what that involves.
Hell, I wouldn't even give them marked graves.
"Let this glass parking lot be a warning to anyone who defies the Untited States", the sign will say at the area formerly known as Mecca.
Funny, I watched a few episodes of the NCIS marathon that was on my TV yesterday. The one that sticks out had a Hamas guy take Ducky (the pathologist), his assistant and another agent captive, to get back a fast food worker from a military base that was spreading smallpox. Sort of a biological warfare suicide bomber.
Very interesting, and I can see how easily it would/could be done.
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