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1 posted on 05/21/2004 7:35:06 AM PDT by knighthawk

To: MizSterious; rebdov; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...

2 posted on 05/21/2004 7:35:27 AM PDT by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)

Spain abandoned us. The terrorists can keep this one.

3 posted on 05/21/2004 7:36:39 AM PDT by nonliberal (Bush 2004: He is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)

al-Sadr must have missed the memo that Spain has switched sides in the war...

4 posted on 05/21/2004 7:40:45 AM PDT by danneskjold ("Somebody is behind this..." - George Soros)

Appeasing terrorists does not seem to work...

5 posted on 05/21/2004 7:45:56 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)

According to elmundo.es, Sevilla has been released.

6 posted on 05/21/2004 7:46:36 AM PDT by Ben Chad

So much for the liberal belief that apeasement and concilliation will work with these Islamic beasts. Spain bugs out to appease the terrorists and this is their reward. Islamofacists know only one language, FORCE.

7 posted on 05/21/2004 7:47:23 AM PDT by TheCrusader

But, but, but, the Spaniels have already surrendered...

8 posted on 05/21/2004 7:59:57 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks

"He is physically fine."

… but requested a roll of toilet paper to be airlifted immediately.

Perhaps his new Prime Minister could call their brothers in arms, the frogs, to form a rescue mission.

9 posted on 05/21/2004 8:01:32 AM PDT by schaketo (Never skinny dip in the same pond as snapping turtles.)

They'll let him go. Spain abandoned the fight there. Just like they let the French guy go. Both countries have no backbone and already gave up to the terrorists.

10 posted on 05/21/2004 8:05:15 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)

Gee whizz ... It would seen that if'n them thar Ali Baba's would just ask them thar Spainynerds to disband their country, forin to git that thar Spainynerd back, they would shore do it.

11 posted on 05/21/2004 8:16:26 AM PDT by G.Mason (A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)

Iraqi Insurgents Release Spanish Reporter

MADRID, Spain - Iraqi insurgents in Najaf freed a Spanish radio reporter after holding him captive for four hours, the correspondent's station said.

After his release, reporter Fran Sevilla called his wife in Madrid and the newsroom to say he was unharmed, Spanish National Radio said.

Sevilla said he was returning to Baghdad, said Aurora Minguez, a reporter on the station's international desk.

Sevilla had reported Friday morning on the withdrawal of Spanish troops from a base in another city, Diwaniyah, and was intercepted after he traveled to Najaf to report on a sermon from the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Spanish National Radio said.

He had called the newsroom in Madrid on a satellite phone as he was being abducted and managed to speak briefly before the line went dead, Spanish National Radio said.

Sevilla, 43, is an award-winning correspondent who covered the Iraq war, the war in Afghanistan, conflicts in Central America and the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

His most recent stint in Iraq began last week when he traveled to Diwaniyah to cover the withdrawal of Spanish troops.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=732&e=3&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_re_eu/spain_iraq_reporter

12 posted on 05/21/2004 9:29:56 AM PDT by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)

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