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BREAKING. Three Americans Kidnapped In Baghdad After US Pays Iran $1.7 BILLION Ransom
Redstate ^
| 1/17/16
| streiff
Posted on 01/17/2016 1:16:36 PM PST by TBBT
Al-Aribiya is reporting that three Americans have been kidnapped by militia in Baghdad.
***snip***
Via The Independent:
According to Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, well-informed sources in Baghdad have confirmed that the kidnapping took place, although the story is yet to be verified.
The identities of the kidnapped Americans or the militias have not yet been confirmed.
It seems that Iran has revalidated a long-standing business model used in that part of the world for a few thousand years: kidnap for ransom.
It seems much more than a coincidence that after the United States gave up seven prisoners doing time for supplying Iran with prohibited items, along with foregoing prosecution on fourteen additional criminals in exchange for four Americans (leaving two still in Iranian custody) and agreeing to pay Iran $1.7 billion:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanskidnapped; hostages; iran; iraq; kidnapped
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To: Balding_Eagle
He will then claim credit for their release ..and follow that act up by bad mouthing the DEAL that was in fact made for the release.
Count on it
he’s already uses this script once this week incase you MISSED it
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:31:38 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
To: TBBT
Trump got Obama to make this deal.
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:32:02 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Balding_Eagle
“I’ll say Trump is going to once again threaten Iran that if these hostages aren’t released before Trump is sworn in there is going to be hell to pay.”
Do you know where Baghdad is?
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:34:11 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: boycott
Iran demonstrated to the rest of the Middle East that taking hostages will get big bucks in ransom.
To: TBBT
That’s not ransom. That’s submission money. The more you submit to those subhumans the more they want.
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:38:53 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: dfwgator
send over James Taylor.
That's utter nonsense. This is clearly a job for Alanis Morissette.
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:39:26 PM PST
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
To: davius
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:40:32 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: HartleyMBaldwin
Thank you. I fully agree.
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:43:45 PM PST
by
boycott
(--)
To: TBBT
Not to worry, John Kerry has been practicing some Cat Stevens that should have them freed soon.
To: ifinnegan
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:44:03 PM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:45:46 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: TBBT
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:47:17 PM PST
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: ronnie raygun
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:48:22 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: TBBT
Bad story if true, prayers for those abducted. This happens when kidnappers are given into which Israel never does someone once told me.
To: ronnie raygun
Kerry does not care a whit. If they had been intelligent and went to college, they would not have had to serve over there. It is their own fault. (sarc)
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:53:53 PM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: TBBT
Unexpected!
Perhaps “Bolts” can send Neil Young...perhaps Sean Penn? Danny Glover? They can negotiate.
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posted on
01/17/2016 1:59:44 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Freedom is costly; but Marxism takes all.)
To: Blue Jays
These three Americans are likely similar to the five other American hostages we failed to get released from next-door-neighbor Iran despite giving them $150B.
It is surprising the Iraqi kidnappers did not request MUCH more. What a bargain!
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posted on
01/17/2016 2:05:19 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
“Mad” like psychopathically disturbed. What a fraud and loser.
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posted on
01/17/2016 2:11:19 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
01/17/2016 2:18:47 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I hear he’s miffed. Beside himself, even!
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posted on
01/17/2016 2:20:45 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hyprocrisy goes only so far.)
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