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Iraq - Female Western journalist kidnapped in Baghdad - police
ABC News & Reuters ^ | January 7, 2006

Posted on 01/07/2006 1:38:41 AM PST by HAL9000

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1 posted on 01/07/2006 1:38:43 AM PST by HAL9000
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BBC News -

US journalist kidnapped in Iraq

A US journalist has been kidnapped and an accompanying translator killed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.

The body of the translator, along with identity papers, have been recovered.

The journalist and the translator were reported to have been on a visit to the Sunni coalition headquarters in the city's western Adel district.

Western journalists and aid workers have frequently been targeted for kidnapping in the country by insurgents and criminal groups.


2 posted on 01/07/2006 1:41:55 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

I'd bet a dollar to a donut that it was another planned setup by a leftist stooge terrorist sympathizer reporterette to get the government of whaqtever country she calls home to pay a big ransom for her.


3 posted on 01/07/2006 1:49:24 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Speaking of...that story went nowhere. Americans should be rioting over that flap.


4 posted on 01/07/2006 1:55:33 AM PST by endthematrix (None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
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To: LegendHasIt
With her driver/translator having been killed, I'd bet .50¢ it's a real kidnapping.
5 posted on 01/07/2006 1:56:20 AM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: HAL9000

Those FrenchYouths sure get around.


6 posted on 01/07/2006 2:00:02 AM PST by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: HAL9000

Can we send 10 more journalists to replace her, including Dan Rather?


7 posted on 01/07/2006 2:02:08 AM PST by peyton randolph (<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
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To: BykrBayb
If the journalist is Christiane Amanpour, one could surmise that she has been kidnapped because of the story that she was the subject of an NSA wiretap, which of course the terrorists would read as "she is a spy."

If so, her kidnapping and perhaps death can be laid at the hands of the media itself.

I fevently hope it is not, and that this is a set-up like some of the other kidnappings. However, as you said, the killing of her driver seems to indicate otherwise.

8 posted on 01/07/2006 2:05:32 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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Drivers/translators are pretty much a "disposable item" to such people; so THAT hardly is an indicator it was ''real'.

Yeah, it very possibly is a real kidnapping, and she is very possibly a "complete innocent".. If so, may God bless and keep her safe.

But color me skeptic. These pseudo-kidnappings have become all too common lately.


9 posted on 01/07/2006 2:07:41 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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Agence France Presse -

US woman journalist kidnapped in Iraq

A US woman journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad Saturday and her translator killed, Iraqi security sources said, in the latest hostage crisis involving Westerners in the war-torn country.

"An American journalist is missing. We are investigating," said US embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton, who declined to name the missing reporter.

Iraqi security officials said the journalist was abducted by armed men in the Adl district of western Baghdad and her translator found dead.

An Iraqi defence ministry official said the interpreter was able to tell soldiers that a US journalist was kidnapped before he died.

Officials said the journalist was seized as she was on her way to interview prominent Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi.

A guard outside Dulaimi's office told AFP he heard gunshots fired a short distance away and rushed to find the body of a slain man.

Dulaimi however told AFP he had no appointment to meet a Western journalist.

People living in the neighbourhood, which has been cordoned off by US and Iraqi security forces, were frightened and refused to talk to journalists.

Several Westerners are already being held hostage by insurgents in Iraq, including an American, a Briton and two Canadians, all members of a Christian peace group.


10 posted on 01/07/2006 2:10:00 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Miss Marple

If it was her, I'll KNOW it was a setup. She is, pretty much, a long time, well known "useful tool" of the islamists.


11 posted on 01/07/2006 2:10:28 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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12 posted on 01/07/2006 2:13:34 AM PST by devolve (<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
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Xinhua -

Baghdad: US Journalist Missing, Interpreter Killed

An American female journalist went missing and the body of her Iraqi interpreter found near a mosque in Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

The body of Alin Ghazi Jack, an Iraqi Christian interpreter, was found near the mosque of Anas Bin Malik in western Baghdad, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. journalist was heading to make an interview with Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Iraqi Consensus Front, a Sunni Arab political body, the source said, quoting the information from an Iraqi army force.

The Iraqi army said they only found the body of the interpreter, but the American journalist was not found.


13 posted on 01/07/2006 2:14:18 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

Hmm... Well, if it was an American, (other than Christine Amanpour) that cuts the odds of it being a setup.

They won't get the Government to pay a ransom, although maybe her employers will be glad to pass a few million bucks along.

Hopefully she doesn't work for the New York Times. They don't have enough money to meet payroll, much less pay a big ransom.


14 posted on 01/07/2006 2:15:51 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: MonroeDNA; HAL9000

<< Those FrenchYouths sure get around.>

As do those Australian yutes "of Middle-Eastern and Mediterranian extraction!"

[And, not to forget, those Indonesian youths with a bent to beheading babies and to bombing that blow bits off bare-bummed British, Bonn, Berne, Borga and Brisbane babes]


15 posted on 01/07/2006 2:17:18 AM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said Saturday.

Maj. Falah Mohamadawi said the abduction and slaying took place on Friday.


16 posted on 01/07/2006 2:21:14 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: LegendHasIt
Ah, but if the islamists thought her conversations with them had been tapped, then they would kidnap her to get info, and perhaps kill her to prevent her froom being questioned by authorities.

And her death would be the fault of the press.

17 posted on 01/07/2006 2:29:10 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: HAL9000

I wonder why they haven't given her name?


18 posted on 01/07/2006 3:02:17 AM PST by Daralundy
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To: HAL9000
Is there any hope?


19 posted on 01/07/2006 3:10:11 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: HAL9000

No doubt she was thinking, "They won't hurt me. I'm against the war and think Bush is wrong on Global Warming. They will see me as a friend and ally."

The naivete of the press on the vicious nature of the enemy we are engaged with is astounding and at times like this, tragic.


20 posted on 01/07/2006 3:12:37 AM PST by Da Mav
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