Posted on 08/19/2004 7:21:15 AM PDT by nuconvert
Militants Threaten to Kill Journalist
August 19, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A militant group calling itself the Martyrs Brigade said it had kidnapped a missing Western journalist and would kill him if U.S. forces did not leave the holy city of Najaf (search) within 48 hours, the pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported Thursday.
Al-Jazeera showed a video released by the group that depicted a man, who resembled missing journalist Micah Garen (search), kneeling in front of five masked militants, who were armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The hostage, who had a mustache, looked down at the ground throughout the video. The authenticity of the tape was not able to be determined.
The sound was not audible, but the announcer said the kidnappers threatened to kill Garen within two days if U.S. forces did not leave Najaf, where they have been fighting with militants linked to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (search) for two weeks.
Garen's father and his fiancee were unavailable for comment when contacted at their homes.
According to witnesses, Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were walking through a market in the southern city of Nasiriyah (search) on Friday when two men in civilian clothes and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles seized them, police said.
At the time of his abduction, Garen, 36, was working on a story about the looting of archaeological sites in Iraq, his fiance, Marie-Helene Carleton said.
Most of the insurgents behind the kidnappings of scores of foreigners here in recent months have been Sunni Muslims, not those aligned with al-Sadr or other Shiite groups.
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Beheadings have lost the shock effect they had a few months back, they just piss us off these days.
I wonder if the MSM and pundits will cover this differently because this is one of "their own" under the threat of the knife, instead of (they'd probably think) a plebian, redneck truck driver or a "mere" soldier?
}:-)4
Let's offer a trade; We will take this journalist and they can have Dan Rather, behead him and use the head for polo.
Wonder what happened to "his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi"? Is he still alive?
Jewish?
Why is Al Jazeera still on the air ?
Don't know. He was born in Conn, but lives in N.Y. and supposedly has dual American and French citizenship.
Cause it's owned and controlled by very wealthy, influential Arabs?
They are an accessory before and after the fact in every murder they broadcast.
Yes, they are.
Poor guy has had it I am afraid....
Just another great example of "Islam a religion of peace" when in reality they are a Blood Thirsty, barbaric death cult.
Any foreigner who remains in Iraq at this point is a fool. I mean, there comes a time when you lose much of your sympathy for people who insist on skateboarding in heavy traffic.
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