U.S. Tried to Rescue American, UK Hostages - Officials

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States unsuccessfully tried at least twice to rescue two Americans and one British man taken hostage in Iraq last month and later beheaded, U.S. officials said on Tuesday...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6481584&src=rss/topNews§ion=news

[Moderator]

1. easy link

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6481584&src=rss/topNews§ion=news

[atreides1]

2. Looks Like....

They were using the same intelligence sources that they use to bomb Fallujah.

"Rescue teams went to two places in Baghdad based on intelligence reports and found nothing"

"We don't really know whether the men were at the spots." "But there were attempts to get them."

They found nothing at either spot, no traces, no signs that anyone had been there? But yet if they had been asked they would have told that they had good intelligence.

And Bigley was killed in a town southwest of Baghdad, but the rescue teams were searching Baghdad.

It's like that joke:

A guy loses his keys, and is looking for them under a street light. Another man comes along and asks him what he's doing, "looking for my keys, I dropped them" says the first man. The second man asks "where did you drop them", the first guy points down the street where there isn't any light and says "over there". The second guy asks "then why are you looking for them over here?". The first guy answers "because the light is better over here."

So I guess the "light was better in Baghdad".

The logical thinker would have pointed out that the kidnappers would not have stayed in Baghdad, where the kidnappings happened. It would have been difficult for them to avoid being detected by anyone working for the US. But I don't think that logical thinking is a requirement for these keystone cops.

[daleo]

3. Who knows about this?

There seemed to be a positive response to the idea that the British tried a rescue, so the chimp may have decided "me too", and had someone put together this story.