Posted on 07/23/2004 11:46:18 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
Report: Egyptian Diplomat Kidnapped in Iraq
I can't wait to see Egypt issue the inevitable "we will not communicate with terrorists" statement. If that was true, their government would shut down.
An armed group has kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq, according to a video tape shown on the Al-Jazeera Arab network.
A man identified as Mohammed Mamdouh Hilmi Kotb, a third most senior official at the embassy in Baghdad, was shown on the footage sitting in front of six masked armed men dressed head-to-toe in black.
Kotb was purportedly kidnapped by a group called the Lions of Allah in response to Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's offer to Iraq of his country's security expertise.
Meanwhile, a group in Iraq which has threatened to behead seven foreign hostages has issued a new 48-hour deadline.
The new ultimatum was made to the hostages' Kuwaiti employers and they demanded that Iraqi prisoners are freed, according to Al Jazeera television.
The TV station said that the group has given 48 hours to meet demands that the company pays compensation to the families of the dead in Falluja and Iraqi prisoners in American and Kuwait jails.
A masked man is seen reading a statement in front of seven men, one Egyptian, three Kenyans and three Indians who were sitting on the ground.
The hostage's employer, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company said earlier that it is refusing to give in to the kidnapper's demand that the firm pulls its operations from Iraq.
Meanwhile an armed group has kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq, according to a video tape shown on the Al-Jazeera network.
DUBAI, July 23 (Reuters) - An Egyptian diplomat has been kidnapped in Baghdad by a group which demands that Egypt not cooperate with U.S. forces in Iraq, Al Jazeera said on Friday.
"The group said the abduction was in response to comments by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif that Egypt is ready to offer its security experience to the temporary Iraqi government," Al Jazeera said, naming the hostage as Mohamed Mamdouh Qutb and showing a videotape it said was sent to it by the group.
"The hostage said in the tape that the Egyptian embassy does not cooperate with the American forces and should help the Iraqi people in rebuilding," the channel said. Qutb was shown sitting in front of six masked men in black.
This sh*t isn't going to end.
This will bring Egypt down on them hard, pull Egypt firmly into the new Iraqi government's camp, and make the battle an obvious one between the Islamic insurgents versus the Islamic countries of Iraq and Egypt.
It's a major miscalculation on the part of the terrorists. They just took the U.S. off of the front burner of Iraq.
5 Full Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Not until we utterly wipe them from the face of the earth, it will not end.
If its egyptians they're kidnapping, let em go at it.
One terrorist killing another is fine by me.
Yes, it is.
the Islamists don't care about the current government in Egypt....they are against them too.
I was thinking the same thing about your negative posts.
Now they're just making stuff up on the fly. Their "demands" are getting more and more ludicrous. No one can, or will, fulfill these "demands". So the hostages will be killed because that's what the hostage-takers planned to do all along. They have no political agenda, they are simply cold-blooded killers. Will Reuters stop calling them "militants" now?
They've been so successful getting people to just pick up and leave that now they've upped the ante.
That's reality.
Stooooopid move, boys. Mubarak's got enough trouble at home with his domestic salamikazes. The last thing he's going to do is encourage them by giving in to you. The first thing he's gonna do, is start hunting you boys down.
Stop bitchen......
When are they supposed to slice off THAT guy's head?? /sarc
With regards to the Iraqi insurgents, why not just switch our orders to "shoot-to-kill" and be done with it??
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