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  • How Iraq hostages were freed [US-captured terrorist "talked"]

    03/23/2006 12:57:40 PM PST · by aculeus · 54 replies · 2,061+ views
    BBC News on line ^ | March 23, 2006 | Unsigned
    Briton Norman Kember and his Canadian colleagues James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were freed after a multinational military raid acting on information provided by a detainee, the US military says. The rescue was completed without any shots being fired and with no kidnappers present, suggesting the operation was carefully planned and carried out. But the crucial bit of intelligence that enabled the rescue came only after two men were captured by US forces on Wednesday night. One of the suspects had the information which led officials to the Baghdad house where the hostages were four months into their ordeal....