Iraq Group Says Has 30 Foreign Hostages

[PfcHammer]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040410/wl_nm/iraq_arabiya_hostages_dc_4

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi group said in footage aired by an Arab TV station on Saturday it was holding 30 foreign hostages and threatened to decapitate them unless U.S. forces lifted their blockade of the town of Falluja.

"We are calling for the withdrawal of American and coalition forces. We have Japanese, Bulgarian, Israeli, American, Spanish and Korean hostages. Their numbers are 30," a masked man holding a Kalashnikov rifle said.

"If America doesn't lift its blockade of Falluja their heads will be cut off," he said in the footage in Arabic, which Al Arabiya said it obtained from news agencies. It did not show any of the alleged hostages.

The speaker of the group of eight masked men said they were called the "Brigades of the Hero Martyr Sheikh Ahmed Yassin," in reference to the founder of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, whom Israel assassinated last month.

"We announce the killing of four soldiers and we have the bodies," the speaker said. The footage showed the body of an unidentified and decomposing man in the sand.

It was not clear when he had been killed or when the tape had been made.

[boobooday]

1. I think some of them might be "contractors"

And some might be Halliburton employees. There was a convoy attacked that involved both of those groups. The mercenaries were protecting the Halliburton oil truck.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Union Thug]

2. Uh - oh

I remember Soviet troops in afghanistan. They don't joke about decapitation. bad news, kids.

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[PfcHammer]

4. heads are gonna roll over this, literally

[Sterling]

5. It's too bad for sure. They are just helping the PNAC gang I am afriad.

This kind of stuff will turn opinion against them and in favor of massive retaliation on our part.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Will the US wait until the decapitations begin

before acknowledging and acting on stopping the impact of this tremendous calamity?

Things look ugly now. Lives at stake and things are bound to get worse.
And good ol' D. Cheney is on his way to China to sell nuclear reactors to the government there.
(Read here for the Cheney-Westinghouse nuclear reactor connection:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x476285 )

:wtf: is going on?!?!?!
There is no precedent for what is going on in Iraq. This is not Vietnam redux déjà-vu. This is a view through the oculus of the global community future.

[54anickel]

7. Dupe?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x477656

[Moderator]

8. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x477656