Posted on 11/09/2009 6:53:49 AM PST by Scanian
Agreed gator. Just in time for Carter or Clinton, or even worse,Jesse Jackson, to step in and save the day..
Thankfully, Obama is President, the whole world loves him and Iran will want to cooperate with him. (haa)
Sorry, I got confused, that was in answer to Huebolt, about the stone-age. I think they were more than just hikers.
S’ok. I agree, more than just hikers.
| 3 August 2009
BERKELEY — Three hikers reportedly detained by the Iranian government last week are former University of California, Berkeley, students, two of whom have been working as journalists in the Middle East and Africa.
Shane Bauer, a 2007 honors graduate in peace and conflict studies, has been working in North Africa and the Middle East, using his fluency in Arabic, the language he minored in at UC Berkeley. He recently has produced stories on Iraq and Syria for San Francisco-based New American Media.
Bauer, 27, came to UC Berkeley in August 2004, and during his undergraduate years took courses in the Graduate School of Journalism. He won the campus's Matthew M. Lyon Prize in Photography in 2007 for his haunting photos of devastation in the Darfur region of the Sudan in Africa.
Sarah Emily Shourd, 30, transferred from Diablo Valley College to UC Berkeley in the fall of 2000 and graduated in May 2003 with a B.A. in English. An aspiring journalist, she reported a story earlier this year for New American Media on the Golan Heights in Israel.
Back in the first gulf war there were people who were willing to go over and be human shields, Iran is just getting a head start is all.
Right, by no means is Iran in the stone age.
You have most of the entire world to hike in and you choose the border of Iran. Americans or not, it’s hard to feel sorry for someone this stupid.
What kind of idiot hikes in that part of the world.
I’m with you....they were looking for trouble. There are plenty of safe places to hike. I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
I hiked on the Lebanon border with Israel, saw Hizbollah
flags waving in the distance and Israeli troops in ground hides waiting for infiltrators. I suppose I should not have been there but I had a great time and came to no harm.
US people do go into Iran all the time, with visas and
through established ports of entry. Imagine the brouhaha if Iranian hikers blundered into Vermont from Canada...
Sorry, but if you are taking a hike in Iran, you’re guilty of something. Could be a simple as “stupidity.”
But you’re guilty.
Somebody bring me up to speed—since they are Berkeley students, they can’t be too bright, but how stupid is hiking in Iraq for Americans civilians?
Too bad. I don’t want to spend any more money rescuing these morons. Any American stupid enough to go hiking in Iraq or Iran is rolling the dice.
My bet is that these are some little lefty greenie types who are anti-America in general, very possibly limousine lefties, who will now expect their hated mother country to come rescue their commie asses and/or negotiate their release.
Yeah, lol, they expect an American justice system and constitutional rights in an Islamic country practicing harsh Sha’ria law.
Let ‘em rot.
Either one is fine with me.
Two of those last names seem somewhat ME: “Shourd” and especially “Fattal.”
Hmmm...let me see...My wife and I want to go for a hike this weekend. Maybe northern Iraq (really close to the Iranian/Iraq border) would be a great spot for our outing. We’ll have a grand time. If we can’;t make it there, maybe we’ll go to the border of North Korea and China.
Who are the US hikers? ...SHANE BAUER...The fluent Arabic speaker was based in Damascus, where he lived with Sarah Shourd.
Sarah Shourd: “Everyday I feel ashamed at what my country has done to [Iraq]”.
JOSH FATTAL: He travelled to Damascus in the summer to meet Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd for a hiking holiday. He reportedly posted an entry on his Facebook page on 17 July, saying that he was in the Middle East and planning a trip to Kurdistan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8351018.stm I had a LOT more sympathy for the young women wo were held in N Korea. They were doing a story on the NKorean sex-trade. These three, are either up to no good, or willing to harm their country.
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