FNC showing live attack in Karbala

FNC ^ | May 11, 2004 | FNC

[mikegi]

Live videophone from our attack on Karbala. Helicopters, Bradleys, jets dropping 2000lb JDAMs.

[rottweiller_inc]

Good Point. Enviromentalists worship nature.

[samadams2000]

Here's a thought...Why not bring back the crusades??

[Archangelsk]

Here's a thought...Why not bring back the crusades??

Good, I hope you're prepared to eliminate 1.4 billion Muslims in the effort because that's what you're proposing.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

CBS IS KEEPING COUNT

One American
Captured: Date Unknown
Executed: Date Unknown

Independent businessman Nick Berg, 26, was taken hostage some time after April 9 and later apparently beheaded, as seen in a videotape that was made public over the Internet on May 11. The Islamic militant Web site that posted the tape said the execution was carried out by an al Qaeda affiliated group to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.

Two Russians
Captured: May 10, 2004

The Russian Foreign Ministry says one Russian energy company worker was killed and two others abducted when gunmen fired on their car south of Baghdad. The three were employees of the Interenergoservis company working at the Southern Baghdad power station.

Three Czechoslovakians
Captured: April 11, 2004
Released: April 16, 2004

Three Czech journalists were freed unharmed April 16, 2004, after nearly a week in captivity. They went missing after checking out of their hotel to leave for Jordan by taxi.

One Dane
Disappeared: April 13, 2004

A Danish businessman went missing after his car was stopped April 13, 2004, on a highway near Tadji, 20 miles north of Baghdad. He was in Iraq to start up a company that deals with sewage projects, according to Denmark television station DR-1.

Two Japanese
Captured: April 14, 2004
Freed: April 17, 2004

Two Japanese hostages in Iraq were released April 17, 2004, to the same group of Islamic clerics who negotiated the freedom of three other Japanese hostages earlier in the week. Aid worker Nobutaka Watanabe, 36, and freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, 30, were apparently kidnapped April 14; Japan had never officially confirmed that the two were taken hostage.

One Chinese
Captured: April 14, 2004
Released: April 16, 2004

A Chinese citizen was abducted April 14, 2004, and released after two days as a captive. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the man was an employee of a Chinese company and was traveling from Jordan to Iraq when his car was stopped by Iraqis at a checkpoint

One United Arab Emirates
Captured: April 15, 2004

A man was pulled from his hotel by gunmen disguised as police in Basra on April 15, 2004, according to police. The victim was carrying a passport from the United Arab Emirates that had U.S. travel stamps in it, leading to earlier incorrect reports that he was American.

Four Italians
Captured: April 13, 2004
One Killed: April 14, 2004

Italy has confirmed the death of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four Italian security guards abducted in Iraq. His execution was shown in a videotape sent to Al-Jazeera, which the network declined to broadcast. The tape was accompanied by a statement from a previously unknown group, the Green Battalion, which said it would "kill the three remaining Italian hostages one after the other, if their demands are not met," according to Al-Jazeera. The group demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, an apology from Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi for an insult to Islam and Muslims and the release of religious clerics held in Iraq.

Three of the Italian captives were working for a U.S.-based company, while a fourth was employed by a Seychelles-based firm, according to Italian officials.

Five Ukrainians
Three Russians
Kidnapped: April 12, 2004
Freed: April 13, 2004

Five Ukrainians and three Russians, all employees of the Russian company Interenergoservis, were seized from their residence in Baghdad on April 12, 2004. They were returned unharmed a day later. A company representative said masked gunmen took their captives in a "lightening quick raid," and no shots were fired. The workers were in Iraq to restore a power plant near Baghdad.

Nine Americans
Disappeared: April 9, 2004
One Escaped: May 2, 2004
Four Bodies Identified

Two U.S. soldiers and seven employees of Halliburton subsidiary KBR went missing after their convoy was ambushed April 9, 2004, near Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Four bodies found near the attack have been identified as KBR workers Tony Johnson, 47, of Riverside, Calif.; Stephen Hulett, 48, of Manistee, Mich.; Jack Montague, 52, of Pittsburg, Ill.; and Jeffery Parker, 45, of Lake Charles, La. The Defense Department identified the two soldiers as Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., and Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio.

Thomas Hamill, a 43-year-old truck driver from Macon, Miss., escaped his captors May 2, 2004.

Seven Chinese
Captured: April 11, 2004
Freed: April 12, 2004

Armed men kidnapped seven Chinese civilians in Fallujah on April 11, 2004, the Chinese government said. The next day the men were released to an Iraqi religious group who passed them on to diplomats, according to a brief Foreign Ministry statement from Beijing. State media said they came to the Middle East on their own to work.

Seven Chinese
Captured: April 11, 2004
Freed: April 12, 2004

Armed men kidnapped seven Chinese civilians in Fallujah on April 11, 2004, the Chinese government said. The next day the men were released to an Iraqi religious group who passed them on to diplomats, according to a brief Foreign Ministry statement from Beijing. State media said they came to the Middle East on their own to work.

Three Japanese
Captured: Date unclear
Released: April 15, 2004

Japanese aid workers Noriaki Imai, 18, and Nahoko Takato, 34, and photojournalist Soichiro Koriyama, 32, were released unharmed April 15, 2004. They had been taken hostage in southern Iraq by a previously unknown group calling itself the "Mujahedeen Brigades." Their captors threatened them with knives in a videotape and vowed to burn them alive if Japan does not withdraw its troops.

One Canadian
One Israeli
Captured: April 7, 2004

Two men who work for separate aid agencies have been kidnapped by militants in Najaf. Fadi Ihsan Fadel, a Syrian-born Canadian who works for the International Rescue Committee, was taken captive when 15 militiamen raided a house in the southern city of Najaf on April 7, said an official with his organization, speaking on condition of anonymity. Gunmen in the nearby city of Kufa later told representatives from the organization that they were holding Fadel, 33, for unspecified crimes, the official said.

Television footage of Fadel in captivity showed him along with Nabil Razouk, 30, who works for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Razouk's uncle, Anton, said his nephew is an Arab Christian who lives in east Jerusalem and is married to a Czech. He said his nephew has an Israeli passport but considers himself to be a Palestinian.

Seven South Koreans
Held: April 8, 2004
Released the same day

A group of South Korean Christian missionaries traveling from Amman, Jordan, was temporarily stopped at a checkpoint on a road outside Baghdad on April 8, 2004, and held for about nine hours. "The armed men initially mistook the missionaries as spies, made threatening remarks and blindfolded them," a statement by the South Korean Foreign Ministry read. "But when the missionaries introduced themselves as doctors and nurses, as people who came to help Iraqis, and demonstrated a sports massage on the armed men, their attitude turned friendly." Their captors' identities remained unclear.

Two Pakistanis
Two Turks
One Nepalese
One Filipino
One Indian
One Unidentified
Captured: Unclear
Released: April 11, 2004

Nine foreigners who drove trucks for military supply convoys were kidnapped, shown in captivity on Arab television, and then released April 11, 2004. Three were from Pakistan, two from Turkey, and one each from Nepal, the Philippines and India. The nationality of the ninth was unknown.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

GW and Rummy should go full out to crush these monsters. No more talk. Start killing them and don't stop until they stand down. Take no prisoners. Just kill them all. Then we can discuss peace.

In the aftermath, bring Kennedy, the fat drunken trust-fund demogogue and his band of anti-American Marxist "friends" up on charges of sedition.

[LIB_CRUSHER]

The only good mosque is a blown up mosque with lots of filthy bum islamo terrorists in it!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

For people so concerned about "idolatry," Muslims seem to have more than their share of "holy men," "holy" cities, shrines, etc.

To Muslims, any uneducated loud mouth who crawls out of the gutter can become an Imam ("cleric"), and any building with four walls and a roof (also suitable for storing arms) can be a Mosque (Holy Place). It's utter nonsense, and this gutter "religion" has been putting one over on the oh-so-sensitive West big time. IMO, if our FLRS see a bunch of illegal combatants running into a "Mosque" its should be leveled, killing the bad guys. If there are good guys inside, they need to kick the bad guys out. Repeat as necessary until conflict is over and we win.

[Florida_Freeper]

if it had been a video of a US soldier beheading an Iraqi prisoner, I have no doubt CBS would be running it 24/7

That is so true....this is finally sinking in.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

SeeBS Man: NO, we don't show murders...anything that doesn't suit our leftist agenda...

[zip]

New yes, intelligent so far. Welcome to FR.

[LIB_CRUSHER]

I can't wait til one of those J-Dams lands right on top of Al Sadr and those scum that killed BERG!Actually I'd rather throw them into a vat of sulphuric acid while they are wide awake!

[Freemeorkillme]

Crusades are brought TO us in the forms of jihads.

Knights, don your armor!

[dennisw]

MOAB dittos on that!

[Freemeorkillme]

Will the real AP step forward.

Good re

[zip]

No, SOH

[zip]

How about dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit? I don't think they changed cw since I worked an intercept station.

[zip]

Good, I hope you're prepared to eliminate 1.4 billion Muslims in the effort because that's what you're proposing.

Is that called "a good start"?

[Tennessean4Bush]

They condemned it. You've just hit on why. I still smell fear.

You have to make these guys much more afraid of us than they are of the terrorists. That may be what has been missing in our handling of Iraq thus far, IMHO. We may be too interested in gaining approval as opposed to gaining respect and fear. The leaders in these towns need to be scared to death of us so they will rat out the terrorists.

[festus]

Does anyone know what the purpose of the attack is? That is, beyond the obvious intent to break things...

To Kill People ?

I know I'm going out on a limb here. Heck and maybe even frighten some of them too. But don't worry its nothing like making them stand naked with green hoods. No its nothing that bad. No we'd never try to intimidate or demean these folks no.

Nuke em till they glow so we can shoot em in the dark !!!

[festus]

For people so concerned about "idolatry," Muslims seem to have more than their share of "holy men," "holy" cities, shrines, etc.

Do they have the Holy Handgrenade ala Monty Pyton ?