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Canadian Journalist says Taliban in Iraq
U.S. forces in Iraq are going to face an explosion in the northern city of Mosul, Canadian military journalist Scott Taylor said Thursday. "The Americans have no idea what kind of an anthill they're sitting on" he told CBC Newsworld.
| "That's because they're stoopid, of course." |
Taylor based his conclusions on observations he made after being kidnapped in Iraq on Sept. 7 and released five days later, near Mosul in northern Iraq.
| Brilliant move on his part, wasn't it? |
He said he was put in a taxi to Turkey. He said he was handed from group to group that shared hostages and weapons, including one he called the Taliban, the militants who controlled Afghanistan until the U.S. drove them out. He said the groups operated "with the full co-operation of the police." Taylor was seized with a Turkish journalist and a UN driver. While being held, he said there were at least six occasions when he was threatened with beheading. One of the groups that held him said it had killed 37 hostages and freed 10...
Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-18 |
