He made the claim-which in retrospect, has been by confirmed by events-that this kidnapping was a farce, staged by tribal elements linked to the neo-Ba'athists, working in concert with foreign-imported jihadis.
Essentially, that it was a tactical bluff, calculated to elicit a response from the United States that was never going to happen.
They never would have killed someone who was intimately linked with a powerful Sunni tribe.
Like I said, he was right.
Wonder of wonders.
:7)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Hmmmm!!!
I guess we may never really know...