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Pope pleads for release of two priests kidnapped in Mosul
Pope Benedict XVI made a public appeal on Sunday for the release of two Catholic priests kidnapped a day earlier on their way home from a funeral in northern Iraq.
"Mahmoud, I can't think of anything more debauched than our trick with the exploding cart full of toys at the playground."
"Yeah. It's gonna be tough to cap that one, Ahmed. Unless..."
"Unless?"
"We could kidnap a coupla priests!"
"Brilliant! Can we rape 'em?"
"Ummm... Yeah."
"And boil their heads and eat 'em?"
"Hmmm. I think we'd hafta get a fatwa on that. Gimme a day or so for a answer from HQ." |
The priests were abducted about 4 p.m. Saturday after participating in a funeral in western Mosul, according to Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, Mosul's head of the Syrian Catholic Church, one of the branches of the Roman Catholic Church. Gunmen ambushed the priests' car, dragged them out and took them to an unidentified location, Casmoussa said Sunday, adding he waited a day to publicize the incident because he had hoped the kidnappers would demand ransom and release the priests. He said he hadn't yet heard from the unidentified men.
Posted by: Fred 2007-10-15 |
