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ABDUCTED IN IRAQ Four Months on Planet bin Laden
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Posted on 01/21/2005 7:09:55 PM PST by GermanEnglishHistorian

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1 posted on 01/21/2005 7:09:56 PM PST by GermanEnglishHistorian
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To: GermanEnglishHistorian

yeah, they were kidnapped, like Patty Hearst was.


2 posted on 01/21/2005 7:11:55 PM PST by oceanview
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To: GermanEnglishHistorian

Oslo syndrome.


3 posted on 01/21/2005 7:17:45 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: GermanEnglishHistorian

"We immediately distanced ourselves from the Americans and stuck to the French position,"

"The French position""...we were there to do our work and show the realities of the resistance."

Need we say more? (Moore)


4 posted on 01/21/2005 7:18:32 PM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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To: oceanview; marron; Mitchell; Fedora; blam; seamole
"There was a lot of talk about chief Osama (bin Laden), references to Chechnya and how the Muslim world is fighting the Western world in Chechnya, Pakistan and Afghanistan. ... The group's main goals are far from modest. They want to defeat America in Iraq, drive a wedge between Europe and America and "overthrow the Arab leaders in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and return to the caliphate (Islamic rule) from Andalusia (Spain) to China."

Yep, those are Osama-types. Wonder if the MSM will follow up.

5 posted on 01/21/2005 7:19:00 PM PST by Shermy
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They know they are marked for death if they delineate from the prescribed story they were told to say as a condition of their release. The old saying: "you may know who we are but we definitely know who you are" is evident. They fear for their life. Any Islamic Jihadi can kill them at any minutes notice anywhere in France or the rest of the world. They will spout the Jihad line that America is doomd to failure in Iraq in order to ave their own a$$.
Thugs all of them.


6 posted on 01/21/2005 7:27:45 PM PST by bubman
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"They know they are marked for death if they delineate from the prescribed story they were told to say as a condition of their release"

Very possible.
But I think ""The French position""...we were there to do our work and show the realities of the resistance.", is the truth, not a story.


7 posted on 01/21/2005 7:31:10 PM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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"...The French position...was the equivilent of a white flag..." Hee hee. He's got that part right.


8 posted on 01/21/2005 7:32:26 PM PST by chadwimc
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"We immediately distanced ourselves from the Americans and stuck to the French position,"

This could easily be a quote by Chirac, or any number (majority) of U.N. member nations.

9 posted on 01/21/2005 7:37:00 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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He returned convinced of one thing: America's policy is doomed.

I bet that was also his conviction before he was captured.

10 posted on 01/21/2005 7:37:20 PM PST by oldbrowser (You lost the election...........get over it)
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Malbrunot says that these fighters will not give up until the last of them is dead.

So be it. Let's redouble our efforts to kill them. We can be more savage than any cowardly Muslim.

-ccm

11 posted on 01/21/2005 7:38:08 PM PST by ccmay (Question Diversity)
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>They thought being French would be the equivalent of a white >flag, a "get out of jail free card" or at least a means of >assuring a timely release. France has long believed that it >has a special relation with the Arab world and that it wields >more leverage than other nations.

Ummm, so what they are saying is that the world should treat these murdering thugs the same way France has so that they can consider irrivelevant as well?

Sounds to me like this guy has been indoctrinated and is a mouthpiece for the terrorists.


12 posted on 01/21/2005 7:38:15 PM PST by sandbar
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We've got a whole lot of killing to do...from Andulasia to China.


13 posted on 01/21/2005 7:40:40 PM PST by blam
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they think big. Like the Iranian Mullahs.

In our MSM they're often posed as angry about Abu Ghraib or miffed Ariel Sharon wouldn't meet Arafat.


14 posted on 01/21/2005 7:44:38 PM PST by Shermy
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This is just proof that the War on Terror is an us or them fight.

It's also proof that we can't count on France for anything. If these fools are stupid enough to believe that they are somehow safe from these fanatics even in France, well...


15 posted on 01/21/2005 7:45:14 PM PST by Middle-O-Road (In favor of blowing all terrorists to China, via other hotter places where they'll linger a while.)
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"The experience nearly broke him, but it also offered him stunning insights into the way jihadist groups operate. He returned convinced of one thing: America's policy is doomed..."

Nah....they broke him.

16 posted on 01/21/2005 7:51:22 PM PST by NordP (MAY YOUR DREAMS COME ALIVE IN 2005!)
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  He returned convinced of one thing: America's policy is doomed.

We're DOOMED!!

17 posted on 01/21/2005 7:53:04 PM PST by Mike-o-Matic
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ha, if they do I'll bet its some how our fault.


18 posted on 01/21/2005 7:54:59 PM PST by chaos_5
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To: GermanEnglishHistorian

An article posted here not long ago quoted one of these guys as saying he kept hoping to see the Americans so they would be rescued.

I could be wrong, but he may have even said that he was "praying" for the Americans to come.

They hate us with everything they have until they need to be rescued. As usual.


19 posted on 01/21/2005 7:57:06 PM PST by texasflower (Liberty can change habits. ~ President George W. Bush 10/08/04)
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"These people will not surrender...not willing to budge." So what exactly is the French position?
20 posted on 01/21/2005 7:58:18 PM PST by Malesherbes
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