CBS' Butler says he isn't sure who kidnapped him in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: CBS

NEW YORK - CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn't entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why.

Butler, a British journalist kidnapped with his interpreter on Feb. 10, was rescued by Iraqi troops on April 14 when he was found with a sack over his head in a house in Basra.

He was taken from a hotel room in Basra, where he was on a trip to meet the chief of staff for anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Butler told CBS News' Allen Pizzey. Portions of the interview were being shown on the "CBS Evening News" on Monday.

Men wearing police fatigue uniforms and armed with AK-47's hustled him out of the room and into a car. He was first taken to a police station in Basra and then was held in different places — including three nights where he was sealed into a small room between two walls, he said.



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[FormerOstrich]

1. Damn....does this say more......

than I ever thought I'd hear about the US??

Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.

"I was pleased I wasn't being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance," he said.

[maddezmom]

2. I'm glad you read it

I probably should have done a snip to highlight that part. :(

[LynnTheDem]

3. BETTER to be kidnapped by the enemy than by AMERICA.

A heckuva job, George!

Stupid MFer.