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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:08 PM
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4 Americans Believed Captured in Iraq Ambush
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2006 — Four Americans are believed to be among 14 people kidnapped in an ambush of a convoy of contractors in Iraq near the city of Nasariyah, defense officials tell ABC News.

Coalition forces have been mobilized to find the people taken by the ambushers, the defense officials said.

The incident took place this afternoon in a normally peaceful part of southern Iraq. A convoy run by a Kuwaiti-based company called Crescent Security Group was driving from near the Kuwaiti border to an Italian base near the City of Nasariyah.

Watch "World News" tonight for the full story.


Early in the trip, the convoy stopped at what looked like an Iraqi police checkpoint, military officials said. Initial reports say 19 trucks were seized and approximately 14 people, including four Americans detained.

There is still a great deal of confusion about whether the checkpoint was operated by real Iraqi police or by a Shiia militia, the officials said.

more at:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2659548
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:13 PM
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1. I'm susprised more of this isn't happening already
maybe we'll get out before they really do start screwn with our troops
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Beelzebud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:14 PM
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2. I thought things were going "swimmingly" there?!?
Remember Annthrax Coulter said it was going swimmingly! She COULDN'T have been full of shit. Right?
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:37 PM
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3. swimmingly
She is drowning in her own ignorance
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:44 PM
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4. Fallujah Redux.
Can we please leave now? We are not welcome. It is not 'our country' no matter how badly we fucked it up.

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