China Hostage Dies After Pakistan Rescue Assault

Reuters ^ | 10/14/04 | David Brunnstrom

[TexKat]

Abdullah Mehsud (AKA "the goat fancier") was in the news recently in a story about how he was released from Gitmo and then kidnapped the two Chinese. Hopefully the book has been closed on that POS.

Yep, one and the same.

Abdullah Mehsud walks at an International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) office in Kabul following his release from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in this March 16, 2004 photo. 'Commander' Abdullah, who says he leads a group that has threatened to kill one of two kidnapped Chinese engineers in Pakistan on October 11, 2004 unless security forces ended a siege of their hide-out, was among a group of 26 detainees released by the United States in March. Picture taken March 16, 2004. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Abdullah Mehsud, Pakistani tribal Commander and leader of the Islamic militants who kidnapped two Chinese engineers, speaks to the media in the Chagmalai area of the South Waziristan some 330 km southwest of Islamabad October 10, 2004. EUTERS/Kamran Wazir

[Publius6961]

Chinese engineers Wang Ende and Wang Peng were heading to work on a dam project in the remote South Waziristan tribal region when they were kidnapped on Saturday by Uzbek and Pakistani militants led by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

No comment.

[FreeReign]

3 Cheers for the ACLU!

If I remember correctly, Mehsud was a DOD release based on a DOD screening process mistake.

[Se7eN]

Pretty courageous, and proficient nonetheless, to storm a group of men armed with suicide-explosives.

[AdmSmith]

A background of him is here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155685/posts?page=1044#1044

[Blowtorch]

According to snopes, the Pershing account never took place. The story lingers on, apparently.

[Blowtorch]

Ok so snopes says it's not confirmed. I worded my statement incorrectly. I hope the account did happen and that it may be tried as you say because it shows the level we can and should escalate this war. We have to put an end to young islamists seeking martyrdom in the name of 72 virgins. Liberal application of pig entrails is the quick solution to this problem. I've been pro pork products for years, and teaming them up with islamists who want martyrdom just makes sense.