http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191709.php
March 12, 2008
“US Receives Fingers of Iraq Hostages (Updated and Bumped)”
“A possible break in the case of the 5 kidnapped contractors? Via the Washington Post:”
VIENNA (Reuters) -
SNIPPET: “UPDATE: McClatchey Newspapers are reporting that one of the fingers belongs to Ronald Withrow, an American computer technician kidnapped in January 2007 in Basra, but who was not confirmed as being held by the kidnappers of the Crescent Security contractors:
Authorities have confirmed that the fingers belonged to hostages Jonathan Cote, of Gainesville, Fla., Joshua Munz, of Redding, Calif., Paul Reuben, of Buffalo, Minn., Bert Nussbaumer of Vienna, Austria, and Ronald J. Withrow, of Lubbock, Texas.
[. . .]
There was no word today on a fifth contractor who was seized with them, John Young, of Kansas City. Contrary to Austrian news reports, none of the fingers belonged to him, authorities said.”
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_re_as/thailand_denmark_protest
See Poster with a beheaded subject here with the poster caption: “It must be cut off!”
PHOTO CAPTION - QUOTE:
Thai-Muslim protesters chant slogans next to a photo of a Danish cartoonist during a protest outside the Danish embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Some 800 Thai Muslims took part in the protest against the reprinting of a cartoon in Danish newspapers perceived as insulting to Islam. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_re_as/thailand_denmark_protest
“Thai Muslims protest Danish cartoon”
Wed Mar 12, 5:21 AM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BANGKOK, Thailand - About 800 Thai Muslims protested outside Denmark’s embassy Wednesday against Danish newspapers’ reprinting of a cartoon perceived as insulting to Islam.
Members of an organization called the Muslim Group of Peace demonstrated peacefully outside the Bangkok embassy for about two hours and called on all Thai Muslims to boycott Danish products.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Muslims are a minority in Buddhist-dominated Thailand, which faces a bloody Islamic insurgency in its southernmost provinces.”
Very sad news. Those moaning that terrorists should be treated like royalty and talk-it out sessions should suffice as "discipline," should spend a day in the shoes of these hostages before their next ridiculous rants about what should and should not be done to terrorists.
Quesions surround Chinese claim of foiled hijacking
The story just doesn't hang together," said Steve Tsang , the director of the Pluscarden program for the study of global terrorism at Oxford University in England.
Tsang said China had failed to identify those arrested in the alleged plot or detail how they'd planned to use flammable liquid to bring down the China Southern Boeing 757, which was flying last Friday from Urumqi in far west China to the capital.
Airlines spot new tech security concerns
While only just over half of the airlines surveyed in the Sita survey currently offer check-in over the web, 89 per cent expect to offer it within the next two years. By then, 52 per cent of airlines are planning to offer self-boarding services and 76 per cent plan to implement mobile-phone check-in services.