Posted on 08/22/2004 12:06:54 PM PDT by areafiftyone
Baghdad, Iraq -- U.S. journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago, was released Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Garen spoke to Al-Jazeera television, confirming his release.
Garen was interviewed by telephone by the station moments after an aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said the American had been released.
Garen thanked al-Sadr's representatives in Nasiriyah and everyone else who worked to secure his release.
Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were walking through a market in Nasiriyah on Aug. 13 when two armed men in civilian clothes seized them, police said.
Garen said Sunday he had been taking pictures with a small camera when a misunderstanding happened with people who did not approve, he said without elaborating.
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Stupid. They freakin kidnapped you and now you thank them? IDIOT!
I agree with you. There is no need to inflate this evil men or to treat them with any civility or respect, and certainly not gratitude.
Agree. Garen has not gotten away from the vermin (Al-Jazeera) yet. He should lie to save his life.
Regardless, thank God they're alive. Thank God for answered prayer.
I have my suspicions about this so called kidnapping. The pictures of the captive certainly did not show the man under duress.
From the looks of his website (someone linked it on another thread), it wouldn't surprise me if he was in with them anyway. It never looked like the other kidnappings to me.
"Garen thanked al-Sadr's representatives in Nasiriyah..."
These scumbags in the leftist media are the greatest allies these terrorists have, so why would they harm them? It wouldn't surprise me in the least is this were a collaborative effort to improve al Sadr's image, given the media's constant propaganda supporting our enemies.
They finally realized that westren journalists are their best friends.
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