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Iraq Group Takes 2 French Citizens Hostage
Reuters ^ | 8/2/04

Posted on 08/28/2004 12:13:43 PM PDT by TexKat

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two French citizens and is demanding the French government end a ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television station Al Jazeera said Saturday.

The channel, quoting unidentified sources, named the group as the Islamic Army of Iraq (news - web sites). It gave no further details.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: appeasementfailed; frenchhostages; hostages; iraq
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1 posted on 08/28/2004 12:13:44 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
An Iraqi militant group

Does Iraq have any other kind?

2 posted on 08/28/2004 12:15:03 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: TexKat

Is this a joke??

Kidnapping over headscarves??

Un-freakin' believable


3 posted on 08/28/2004 12:15:12 PM PDT by sissyjane (Does Rice show up on X-Rays??)
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To: TexKat

And the Islamic looniness goes on.


4 posted on 08/28/2004 12:15:20 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: sissyjane

The French respose to this will be rich.


5 posted on 08/28/2004 12:15:58 PM PDT by zarf
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To: TexKat

Paris will fall within 3 hours.


6 posted on 08/28/2004 12:16:15 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: zarf
The French response to this will be rich.

They're already passing out the white flags.

7 posted on 08/28/2004 12:16:35 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Hannity Was Right, FReepers Tend To Eat Their Own)
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To: zarf

How do you surrender after you've already surrendered?


8 posted on 08/28/2004 12:17:43 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: TexKat

In response, the French government ordered that all French women must now wear scarves.... oh yeah, and report for a clitorectomy.


9 posted on 08/28/2004 12:17:47 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Benedict Arnold - Jane Fonda - John Kerry)
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The militants ought to be a little careful. While it is true France opposed the war to topple Saddam, France is also where most of the Crusaders came from. Don't get them started, militant-man, France is nearly synonymous with Crusades.


10 posted on 08/28/2004 12:18:07 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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>>They're already passing out the white flags.<<

...and waiting for us to save them.

Hope we say send in your own troops..NO, Wait send in Francois Kerry!

He's a war hero don't ya know!!


11 posted on 08/28/2004 12:18:08 PM PDT by sissyjane (Does Rice show up on X-Rays??)
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I'm sorry, but I had to laugh on this one. How long will it take for France to give in? Less than 24 hours? Shall we place bets?

They don't call them Surrender Monkeys for nothing.

12 posted on 08/28/2004 12:22:08 PM PDT by gramho12 (Kerry, Kerrey, Bo-Berry..)
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Well, it's good to see that by staying out of Iraq the French have carefully cultivated good relations with Islamic extremists.

See? Talking does work!


14 posted on 08/28/2004 12:25:10 PM PDT by HarryCaul
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To: TexKat

The over-under on surrender is 48 hours.


15 posted on 08/28/2004 12:26:03 PM PDT by Loyalist
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To: sissyjane
Is this a joke??

Kidnapping over headscarves??


Nope.
The Islamics (like any sane person) can see through the French charade.
The French ban other markers of Judaism and Christianity at the same time
and say they are being fair...but the real target was to get the headscarves out of schools.

But, the French have to use these machination because they are scared...they've let
their country become so infiltrated by their future masters (now 10% Muslim)
that they don't really know what to do.

While I feel for anyone captured as a hostage of the Islamics...maybe this sort of
event will wake up true France and bring them over to the right side.

But I won't hold my breath.
16 posted on 08/28/2004 12:29:51 PM PDT by VOA
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17 posted on 08/28/2004 12:29:55 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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Hope we say send in your own troops..NO, Wait send in Francois Kerry!

He's a war hero don't ya know!!

I heard he served in Vietnam.

18 posted on 08/28/2004 12:30:14 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Hannity Was Right, FReepers Tend To Eat Their Own)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

OMG!! ROFLMAO


19 posted on 08/28/2004 12:30:53 PM PDT by Airwinger01
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To: TexKat

Quick, send in The Frenchurian Candidate™: John F(*cking) Kerry to save the day!


20 posted on 08/28/2004 12:36:25 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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