Posted on 03/11/2009 10:20:44 AM PDT by Candor7
David Rhodes Still Missing
11 March 2009
Few people realize that New York Times journalist David Rhodes was kidnapped in Afghanistan back in November. There were a few scattered stories early on, but big reporting apparently has been squashed. In December, during a trip with Secretary Gates, I asked a New York Times reporter if she knew the status of the situation. The story had been kept so quiet that she didn’t actually know the kidnapping had occurred. The information came to me from several sources some weeks after the kidnapping in Afghanistan. I sat on the information, but there are a growing number of snippets on the web, and it can safely be said that the word is out. One extremely well placed Pentagon source told me in December that Rhodes is believed to have been moved to Pakistan.
Obama is doing what?
Hillary is doing what?
It ain’t politics in this case.
It’s generally considered safer to keep the matter under wraps while negotiations are going on.
Kidnapped in Afghanistan Ping.
You mean pay the ransom like Italy does or NOT?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Michael Yon thinks its been too long or he would not have posted on his site.
I agree with him.
Let’s hope the poor guy doesn’t get separated from his head. Not to fear messiah Obama wants to talk with the moderate Taliban. Like Rush says, the moderate Taliban only cuts your head halfway off.
Why would the Taliban hurt one of their best allies?
I didn’t say I disagreed with Michael Yon on this. But I’m wondering why the family of this Rhodes guy hasn’t broken ranks and held their own press conferences and interviews.
They may end up doing it anyway out of sheer despair.
Then again, the kidnappers may have privately promised to behead him if word gets out. Your guess is as good as mine.
They might be ‘moderate’ Taliban, having a inter Taliban tussle with left wing Taliban, as opposed to the Pro Heroin Taliban.
Anyways, Obami says he can talk to them. You know, peace in our times, stuff like that.
Nothing to worry about here. NYTs assures us that Islam is the religion of peace.
Usually when there is no reporting on a kidnapping it’s because negotiations are going on to arrange and deliver a ransom. They’ll deny it, of course.
And the longer it takes, the more likely Rhodes' head will be displayed for all on a platter.
Keeping it quiet makes the Tangos use the final solution to get their point across: ALL RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
I can imagine the Obawimps wringing their hands behind the scenes and doing very little except trying to set up "talks".
The tangos are playing them like fiddles, just like they did with Jimmy Carter.
And we know how that went.
Reagan took care of it in a few weeks.
In general , experience shows that if it is not solved in a year, its decapitation time.So we have a 8 more months to go, or NOT.
And the Obama government must be pressured to act to save Mr. Rhodes and face the public on the way it was accomplished or not accomplished.
The NYT has been treasonous against the Bush administration by releasing intel from the CIA, but now that Obama is in office, they are atrangely silent on their investigating and reporting on government activity in relation to their own staff reporter.
LOL.
No wonder they are tanking.
Poland lost a UN worker in Pakistan, and they were not willing to negotiate.
Where is the transparancy if Obama is changinng the Bush policy?
I am beginning to understand now why Obama is giving so many concessions to terrorists, ending the USS Cole mastermind trial, and pronouncing aid for Hamas. He thinks that the tangos who have Rhodes will be satisfied and release him. Such will not be the case. That route is a bottomless hole of surrender monkey proportions.
JImmy Carter and his horrible legacy in this field is proof positive. We may now have an entire war policy which is hostage, not just David Rhodes, which is exactly what the Tangos want.
And therefore there is no incentive for them to give Rhodes back, and every incentive to keep him.
Do you think the NY Times would have kept silent if a soldier had been kidnapped? Or a non-journalist citizen of the United States? If you do, there are some newspapers around the country I would like to sell to you.
He’s just going through basic and advanced training.
“Usually when there is no reporting on a kidnapping it’s because negotiations are going on to arrange and deliver a ransom.”
I took a business trip to an area of the world where kidnappings are common. Before I left I received a call from the chief security officer of the company to tell me that if anything happened they wouldn’t pay a ransom. I went home and told my wife and she said the same thing!
That is always the official position, but behind the scenes lots of businesses and some governments (France, Italy) pay the money. They never admit it, but they pay.
1. The United States does NOT negotiate with kidnappers.
2. The MSM is obviously trying to prevent another 'hostage crisis' that would sink Obama's poll numbers.
This is the NYT we’re talking about here, NOT the United States of America. They probably have eschewed official assistance.
Obama is happy to go along with the hear-no-evil game.
He’s not about to accept this little Rohdes problem as HIS hostage problem.
And how long were Terry Anderson and the other Lebanon hostages held during the Reagan administration?
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