Western Aid Workers Freed

CBS News ^ | Nov. 14, 2001 | David Martin

[YaYa123]

Watching President Bush come out to express his happiness over the release of these people, you can almost feel his genuine happiness and relief. When he said he had been deeply concerned, when he said the people of Crawford had been in deep prayer, when he spoke as a parent, saying he knew the anguish those parents have been through, didn't you understand the love he has for his girls. Nothing he said was a soundbite for effect...every word he said was real and from his heart.

We got ourselves quite a president!

[habs4ever]

You're welcome, thought you'd like to know :-)

[Clinton's a rapist]

Any word yet on how they came to be freed?

[YaYa123]

President Bush said that Rumsfeld would give the details, (I thought he implied later tonight, but I might have misunderstood that part.)

I understood him to say the Taliban willingly released them to the Northern forces, and then the Americans flew them out of Afganistan to Pakistan, by helicopter. It seemed sketchy...President Bush said he did not want to misstate the details, that reporters would have to wait on Rumsfeld or the DOD.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Nothing he said was a soundbite for effect...every word he said was real and from his heart.

We got ourselves quite a president!

Yes, indeed!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yes. Thank you.

[Weirdad]

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"Eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, were safe in Pakistan Wednesday after being held in Afghanistan for three months by the Taliban for preaching Christianity, U.S. officials said."

Thank God. Praise God. Praise Jesus. This is truly a miracle that only God, working through people, could have accomplished. I have learned over the years that when the very thing happens that you have been praying for that you Thank God For It, acknowledge the answer to prayer, and you DON'T minimize it and say that it just would have happened on its own. I am sure this rescue will prove to be an interesting story in human terms, but it is even more momentous as a miraculous answer to the prayers of millions. Praise God.

[Angelique]

I just heard it on the news!!!!!!!! This is so grand, so wonderful, such a great day! AMEN!

[Sir Gawain]

Wonderful! Praise the Lord, and pass the ammo!!!

My kinda girl! :-D

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hehehe

[Irene Adler]

A position of strength works better than whiney weakness and "accommodating" terrorists. If we had started giving concessions to try to get these people out, the Taliban would just have made many more demands while continuing to hold onto them.

[Snow Bunny]

This is just so wonderful, I was so worried about their safety.

[Alamo-Girl]

PRAISE GOD!!!!

[agrace]

Does anyone else like saying this word...Jalalabad? I do....Jalalabad...Jalalalalalalabad...hee hee hee.

BIGJOESADDLE, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EASILY AMUSED.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! too funny.

agrace, Vice President in charge of uncontrollable giggling.

[Don Joe]

Gadhafi's son said his foundation made contact with the Taliban "with the aim of finding a solution for these people through third-party mediation," and that the effort was bearing fruit "because of the good standing the foundation enjoys in this area."

You know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of the story about the little banty rooster who believed that the sun rose because he crowed every morning.

Methinks Gadhafi Junior is trying to cash in on somebody else's done deal.

[GretchenEE]

bttt

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Robert Herber and his wife, Stefanie, above left, celebrate Wednesday night with other members of Antioch Community Church in Waco after learning that church members Heather Mercer, Dayna Curry and six other foreign aid workers had been freed in Afghanistan.

Aid workers safe after U.S. airlift-Baylor grads taken to Pakistan-- At 3:40 p.m. CST Wednesday, or shortly after midnight today in Afghanistan, the group was taken to a field near Ghanzi, about 50 miles southwest of Kabul, where three Special Operations helicopters swept in, loaded the workers and flew out, Pentagon officials said.

Mercer

Curry