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truthpusher (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 08:27 AM
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AP: Ex-Hostage: Rebels Wanted Bush Re-Elected
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041224/ap... Ex-Hostage: Rebels Wanted Bush Re-Elected
Fri Dec 24, 6:34 AM ET Europe - AP
PARIS - French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq (news - web sites) said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush (news - web sites) to win re-election.
In a four-page account of their ordeal, one of the reporters, Georges Malbrunot, also wrote that they saw several other hostages who were later decapitated. The journalists said their captors viewed foreign businessmen working in Iraq as their enemies.
One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush's re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday's edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.
"We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop," Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041224/ap... ONE NATION UNDER FRAUD
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I posted this hours ago. norml Dec-25-04 08:37 AM #1
I could not find it in LBN - where did you post? truthpusher Dec-25-04 08:39 AM #2
I put it in General Discussion Politics, because it was too old for LBN. norml Dec-25-04 09:02 AM #4
Wanna know what I think? Brundle_Fly Dec-25-04 08:48 AM #3
the rebels may be in for a disappointment. Kurovski Dec-25-04 10:20 AM #5
huh? annabanana Dec-25-04 01:15 PM #6
Story is more than 12 hours old Moderator Dec-25-04 01:28 PM #7
norml (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 08:37 AM
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1. I posted this hours ago.
norml (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 02:46 AM
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Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 02:47 AM by norml
Former French hostage: Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected
By Associated Press, 12/24/2004 06:21
PARIS (AP) French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election.
In a four-page account of their ordeal, one of the reporters, Georges Malbrunot, also wrote that they saw several other hostages who were later decapitated. The journalists said their captors viewed foreign businessmen working in Iraq as their enemies.
One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush's re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday's edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.
''We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop,'' Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.
Bush beat Democrat John Kerry to win the presidency last month.
Another captor, who described himself as the group's head of internal intelligence, told the men that the Islamic Army has four enemies: American and coalition troops, ''their collaborators, that is to say Italian businessmen, or even French,'' as well Iraqi police and spies.
Malbrunot wrote that the Islamic Army has 15,000 to 17,000 members and that its hostage-takings are carefully organized.
''There are those who stop people on the roads, those that carry out interrogations, those that keep guard and those that judge,'' he wrote.
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truthpusher (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 08:39 AM
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2. I could not find it in LBN - where did you post?
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 08:41 AM by truthpusher
Also - could you give me the link - I would like to hear what people have to say about this - thanks
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norml (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 09:02 AM
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4. I put it in General Discussion Politics, because it was too old for LBN.
Just enter the headline in Google News, and you'll find lots of links on this story.
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Brundle_Fly (885 posts) Sat Dec-25-04 08:48 AM
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3. Wanna know what I think?
Duh.
Of course they want the chicken hawks running the game, Saddam is gone and the US can't fight the insurgents properly. THey will fight until we leave and grab power....Thats what everyone is fighting for here....
the power of having the world's second biggest oil reserve....
Vote•Free•or•Die•Bold
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 10:20 AM
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5. the rebels may be in for a disappointment.
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 01:15 PM
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6. huh?
I pledge alliegence to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the Republic which it defines.
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Moderator (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 01:28 PM
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7. Story is more than 12 hours old
Locking. Sorry. Merry Christmas.
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