Iraqi PM rejects kidnapping deal

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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has called on Egypt not to bow to kidnappers who seized an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad.

"The only way to deal with terrorists is to bring them to justice," Mr Allawi said during a visit to Syria.

Mohamed Mamdouh Qutb was abducted by gunmen as he left a mosque in the Iraqi capital on Friday.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3922955.stm>

1st off why the fuq is ALLAWI speaking for Egypt. Let them make up their own mind!!!! After all lets take into count, o I don't know
The Filipino kidnapping...Both Bulgaria and Japan -- as well as South Korea -- have faced the same dilemma in the past as the Philippines faced this month. All three governments defied the captors' demands.
You do the math?<http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200407/FOR20040722a.html>

[IndianaGreen]

1. Who cares what he says!

I think that Arroyo did right in pulling the Filipino troops out for the sake of one man and his family back in the Philippines. I think that if the Egyptian government follows the same path as Arroyo, then more power to them!

This makes the South Korean government look real bad for acceding to US demands to not negotiate which accomplished nothing other than the beheading of one of their citizens. What did they accomplish by being "resolute"? It is easy to be resolute when it is not your own hide or that of your loved ones.

As long as US troops remain in Iraq to support the puppet Alawi regime, there is little hope that any progress can be made in providing humanitarian assistance to that troubled country. We broke it, and we cannot fix it!

[ugarte]

2. Of course if it were his kid

he'd sing a different tune.

[Chicago Democrat]

3. Hey Allawi!? Shoot any bound prisoners lately? Allawi likes Brains....

must eat brains.....

[Disturbed]

4. Iraq was illegaly invaded.

The Occupation is illegal. The US Puppet Regime is illegal.

Now countries should sacrifice their citizens to uphold all this illegality?

Iraq is now free of Saddam and his rule. It is time for the US and it's cronies to leave Iraqis to sort out their own destiny.

That Iraq will be a "Democracy" is a pipedream. Amerika is not a Democracy. It is a Plutocracy.