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Thomas Hamill Free from Captors in Iraq!!!!

Posted on 05/02/2004 4:00:40 AM PDT by Timeout

Press conference right now announcing Hamill escaped from his captors. That's all right now.

Thanks be to God!


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: breaking; escape; iraq; rescue; theguild; thomashamill
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To: theophilusscribe
".........could this guy be be some sort of political statement for the left?..........."

No no. You're wrong wrong.

181 posted on 05/02/2004 6:57:36 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Catspaw
I can't wait to hear his story as well...

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There will probably be a made-for-tv movie on tonight at 9pm...smile.
182 posted on 05/02/2004 6:58:11 AM PDT by gooleyman (You'll NEVER agree with ANYONE about EVERYTHING. You'll NEVER agree with a DemocRAT about ANYTHING)
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To: FreeAtlanta
According to the AP story in the NYT, he led the troops back to the building where he was being held and they captured two of his captors. He also has an infected gunshot wound in his arm.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Hostage.html?hp
183 posted on 05/02/2004 7:06:49 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: txrangerette
Brown & Root name - apparently his direct bosses - instead of any reference to his indirect one, which is Haliburton. Even Fox did!

Cover-up! Hamill+Haliburton would RUIN their DNC Agenda.

Stay safe...

Thanks.

Actually, KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton. KBR employees and management refer to it as "KBR" and rarely as "Halliburton." Not out of any desire to disassociate, it's just that there are so many subsidiaries and KBR is probably the most prominent among them.

(Now, how would I know that? {innocently batting eyelashes}...)

184 posted on 05/02/2004 7:11:02 AM PDT by Allegra (Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, MUSHROOM!)
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To: Liberal Me
Abviouslly there was no will to level Fallujah with air power and jarheads proved to be unable to take Fallujah in an ground assault, hence the deal with with our newest member of the coalition of the willing, the Ba'athists.

You missed the point of my remarks and then went off on a tangent. As far as the Marines being unable to take Fallujah, I think you are dead wrong. It was a political decision, not a military one to take the city by force. The Marines had a kill ratio of more than 10 to 1. They would have isolated and destroyed the enemy if they had been let off the leash. Make no mistake about that.

185 posted on 05/02/2004 7:13:46 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Timeout; WKB; smonk; somniferum; Keltik; John Vaught; Sybeck1; fatrat; RKB-AFG; southern bale; ...
A kinda late left coast time great news Mississippi ping!
187 posted on 05/02/2004 7:22:48 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: Liberal Me
"...You can spin it all you want but the fact remains that Marines are out and the much hated Ba'athists and Republican Guard are in..."

I don't recall spinning anything, anyway. You seem to think our marines were incapable of taking Fallujah. Wrongo. Big time. And "the Ba'athists" being back in is a result of having slim pickings to choose from, when looking for senior army officers among the Iraqis. Cherry picking from a rotten orchard. Personally, I think it's a really good idea. Let the Iraqis see that they have a choice between accepting American largesse, or having the former regime back!
189 posted on 05/02/2004 7:27:40 AM PDT by jim35 (A third party vote is a vote for the DemocRATs.)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Asad has a big mouth and I did rape his sister once" ROTFLOL
190 posted on 05/02/2004 7:31:59 AM PDT by watchin
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To: jim35; Liberal Me
Don't let armchair generals who are 6,000 miles away from Iraq bother you Jim.

They have been popping up like weeds around FR, lately.

JMO, I think most of them are liberal disruptors trying to tear down morale.

191 posted on 05/02/2004 7:34:03 AM PDT by Dane
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To: Liberal Me
It was a political decision, based on the fact that muslims heroically shoot from behind women and children, knowing that dirtbags like you will spit on the troops and call them baby-killers when they return fire.

The marines could level the city, but then we'd have to fight the likes of you and your traitorous candidate.
192 posted on 05/02/2004 7:39:58 AM PDT by watchin
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To: Liberal Me
You can spin it all you want but the fact remains that Marines are out and the much hated Ba'athists and Republican Guard are in.

And from that you were able to intuit that the Marines were incapable of taking Fallujah. LOL!

I bet you just clean up on the carnival guessing games.

193 posted on 05/02/2004 7:40:07 AM PDT by been_lurking
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To: Dane
You don't suppose someone with a name like 'liberalme' could be a liberal disruptor, do you?
194 posted on 05/02/2004 7:40:55 AM PDT by watchin
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To: Timeout
Thank you G-d.
196 posted on 05/02/2004 7:42:27 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: tscislaw
You know, I had a feeling that this guy would escape.

He didn't have that "deer caught in the headlights" look in the video of him being held captive.

He was cool as a cucumber in the footage taken the day he was kidnapped.

197 posted on 05/02/2004 7:46:34 AM PDT by dennisw (GD is against Amalek for all generations)
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To: Liberal Me
How does that compare to your milage? Just curios

I'm 6,000 miles away also. I am also not a military expert and don't play one on FR, but I will trust the military and their commanders over a liberal press any day of the week.

198 posted on 05/02/2004 7:46:38 AM PDT by Dane
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To: liz44040
on the topic of Fallujah = this appeared in my mailbox this a.m.:

Very interesting statement. If this is authentic, it definitely means that the turning over of (part of) Fallujah to the former Baathist general was a clever stroke. One of the problems of the Iraqi Governing Council is that they seem to be heavily Shiite and it seems to me that they are beginning to regard Iraq as automatically belonging to them (note the gentleman from the "Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq"). Saddam and most of his head honchos were Sunnis, so perhaps this will provide a counterweight.

It will be interesting to find out what Hamill might have found about the situation during his capitivity.

200 posted on 05/02/2004 7:55:25 AM PDT by livius
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