[Dog]

The big bad wolf called Al Qaeda.....huffed....and puffed.....then gave up. The insurgency is on its dying legs.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Wow. What a show of weakness.

[ChicagoRepublican]

Oh come on guys, let's not be silly. Do you think insurgents/Al Qaeda would willingly let go of this guy because of weakness. Hell, if they were weak, shouldn't they have killed him.

There's more to this story then is being let on.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Michael Moore will be extremely dissapointed.

[No Blue States]

Good, I didnt think he would survive.

It must be hard keeping up with a prisoner while you are being hunted like dogs.

By this time next year Iraq will look much different imo.

[builder]

I'm not so sure who blinked here. Didn't they say they would let him go if we left? We left,they let him go.

You know this "Governor" is at least tacitly on their side ,or he would have been killed.

[cripplecreek]

bump.

[God luvs America]

why did we end the fight? slaughter those bastards!

[lizma]

Now if they would only let the other hostages go. We have seem to forgotten about them.

[need_a_screen_name]

Sheesh... the demands were that we leave the area, as we have pretty much done. Our Op was complete, so we left. That's about all there is to this.

[ScreamingFist]

The big bad wolf called Al Qaeda.....huffed....and puffed.....then gave up. The insurgency is on its dying legs.

Errr, no. More likely a huge ransom was paid, subsidized by your tax dollars.

[cherokee1]

When this first happened I said this guy had to be part of the problem----the dirtbagz were holed up IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. I'm betting he got out of the way so as to avoid what we call " turning state's evidence" . How come he hadn't called Marine 911? Severe case of being caught with his rags down!!!

[Deetes]

I have to wonder what connections this governor has to al qaeda , other than being kidnapped ... But it is good he's back. But they usually just kill these guys...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good reading here ....

A Marine's view of nighttime Iraq from above
Valley Press | on Sunday, May 15, 2005. | LT. COL. BERNARD "BULL" KRUEGER Commander, USMC Detachment Bravo

[AFPhys]

Good news ping!

[No Blue States]

Australian's kidnappers lift ultimatum: mediator

BAGHDAD (AFP) - "An Australian cleric in Iraq to negotiate the release of a kidnapped contractor told AFP that an ultimatum hanging over Sydney to withdraw its troops had been lifted to allow further talks.

Nothing has been heard of 63-year-old Australian contractor Douglas Wood since his kidnappers released a DVD which was broadcast on May 6 and set a 72-hour deadline for Sydney to pull out its troops from Iraq."

Yet another blink? Could be, Backing down from ultimatums doesnt exactly exude confidence or a strong bargaining position. I hope this guy gets free too.


http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050515/wl_mideast_afp/iraqaustraliahostage_050515184215

[Choose Ye This Day]

The insurgency is on its dying legs.

I think so, too. Last gasps of desperation. However, I believe that AQ will now return to global terrorist attacks again in earnest, since that is where they are most effective. They can't win conventional guerrilla war, but they are pretty good at cowardly strikes against defenseless innocents.

[Avenger]

I believe the governor was Sunni. It's quite likely that he was a willing "victim" and just spent the past week chilling out with his buddies smoking on a hokah watching reruns of Laverne & Shirley.

[ArmyTeach]

#1 Are you sure? are you absolutely sure? We have fires in Alaska that we thing we put out in the fall. They lie low in the tundra under the snow during the winter, and emerge the following summer. Like insurgents?