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Al Jazeera: Japaneese hostages to be freed within 24 hours
Sky News ^ | 10 April, 2004 | Sky News

Posted on 04/10/2004 11:17:25 AM PDT by Eurotwit

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1 posted on 04/10/2004 11:17:25 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit
Good News !
2 posted on 04/10/2004 11:18:44 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Eurotwit
Why do I worry we are being set up here?
3 posted on 04/10/2004 11:19:03 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: traumer
... I wonder what was the 'STICK' ?
4 posted on 04/10/2004 11:19:26 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Eurotwit
What great humanitarians those fighters be.

A gift on Easter.

5 posted on 04/10/2004 11:20:34 AM PDT by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: traumer
... I wonder what was the 'STICK' ?

or the carrot?

6 posted on 04/10/2004 11:20:55 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Eurotwit
I hope al jazeera isn't making this up.
7 posted on 04/10/2004 11:21:17 AM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3000-13052765,00.html
8 posted on 04/10/2004 11:21:30 AM PDT by threat matrix
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To: traumer
Way back in the 1500s the Japanese, almost alone in this practice, were still boiling enemies alive.

Maybe somebody reminded these jerks that if they'd gone to school and studied world history like they were supposed to they'd found out all about the Japanese (who, among other things, pretty nearly conquered China and a lot of other stuff back in the '30s adn '40s.)

9 posted on 04/10/2004 11:21:53 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Eurotwit
Great news !!! Congratulations to the Japanese PM who stood tall ... and hope the lesson is learned by the Chamberlains in the US
10 posted on 04/10/2004 11:22:23 AM PDT by EDINVA (reporters aren't stupid .. they just think YOU are)
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you really believe they did it for popularity... ?
I repeat WHAT WAS THE STICK !?
11 posted on 04/10/2004 11:22:26 AM PDT by traumer
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Re: Reuters quoting Al Jazeera.

A new low for Reuters.

12 posted on 04/10/2004 11:23:36 AM PDT by ChadGore (Mach 7 !)
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you really believe they did it for popularity... ?
I repeat WHAT WAS THE STICK !?

Agreed. Or perhaps they are getting ready to terrorize the world again and needed an audience. Hold tight everyone.

13 posted on 04/10/2004 11:24:01 AM PDT by rhombus
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*** you really believe they did it for popularity... ?
I repeat WHAT WAS THE STICK !? ***

The Association of Muslim Clerics .. and good for them, too .. getting awfully tired for people of influence in the Muslim community to speak out against these savages. About time for them to prove it if, in fact, they are a "religion of peace"
14 posted on 04/10/2004 11:25:19 AM PDT by EDINVA (reporters aren't stupid .. they just think YOU are)
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I'm now leaning more towards the "all a staged event by peace activists" theory.

Why else would they be released?
15 posted on 04/10/2004 11:25:23 AM PDT by HarryCaul
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To: traumer
WHAT WAS THE STICK !?

They threatened to send in the Ninjas


16 posted on 04/10/2004 11:25:47 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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To: Eurotwit
Interesting thread over here:

About those Japanese "Hostages"...

17 posted on 04/10/2004 11:26:11 AM PDT by proust (How many deaths will it take till he knows too many people have died?)
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I dunno... perhaps the japanese said they would send the equivalent of four battalions of "peace keeping" troops to the region... if the people were not let go.

Instead of two.

18 posted on 04/10/2004 11:26:22 AM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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I don't trust them! Something tells me that they are going to release these hostages but only after they kill them. I pray it won't happen, but I put nothing past these animals.
19 posted on 04/10/2004 11:27:19 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)
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To: rhombus
It's simple.

After burning and doing other disgusting things to those Americans they are looking to get the world to say "See. they aren't so bad after all". Then they will try to focus the press on American atrocities in Fallujah and elsewhere.

Besides, someone must have told them how the Japanese treated people during WWII and that's enough to scare even the "People of Peace"
20 posted on 04/10/2004 11:29:03 AM PDT by furball4paws (Never less alone than when wholely alone; never less idle than when wholely idle.)
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