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2004-09-05 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2004-09-05 11:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Experts have warned that increased military activity against resistance strongholds in the area could harm the chances of rescuing Radio France International's Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro.
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"We issued a fatwa urging the group [of hostage-takers] to immediately free and not to harm the two French reporters, in recognition of France's position on Iraq," he said.

Just because the French paid a ransom does not mean that they paid admission and got a guarohnteee. Military ops come first. And I'm sure that the fatwa will be a big help. Geeze Louise! These guys dance around like marionettes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-05 12:10:45 PM|| 2004-09-05 12:10:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 (Everyone) 1,2,3.....Ahhhhhhhhh.

I was suppose to lose sleep last night over this one, but forgot to. I slept like a baby and ,strangely enough, don't feel the slightest sense of guilt.

Well, there's always tonight or tomorrow night...

Posted by 98zulu 2004-09-05 12:36:45 PM|| 2004-09-05 12:36:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if the two French spi...er, journalists are going to executed by that al-Qaeda cell located somewhere in Virginia? Of course, they will be wearing the fashionable orange jumpsuits provided to all priso...hostages, and will confess in a drug addled manner to being Zionist saboteurs before their heads are bloodlessly cut off of their bodies with Swiss Army knives.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-05 12:46:47 PM|| 2004-09-05 12:46:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tap...Tap... Hmmmm.....
My sympathy meter seems to be stuck.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-09-05 1:11:17 PM|| 2004-09-05 1:11:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 With any luck, we disrupted ransom payments that would fund more of the Fallujah etc. thugs.

Sorry about that, France -- not.

Posted by too true 2004-09-05 2:32:52 PM|| 2004-09-05 2:32:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 US blamed for spoiling French release

Boy howdy, this is certain to keep me laying awake during the long winter nights.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-05 3:01:51 PM|| 2004-09-05 3:01:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Most interesting thing to me on that Al-Jizz web page is the big skyscraper ad on the left panel with a photo of the Matterhorn that says "State of the Art medical care in Switzerland". Says to me that the Middle East has a mass market of people rich enough to spend their petro dollars jetting off to Switzerland for treatment, yet can't develop competent doctors locally.

Makes you wonder what the local doctors do if not provide quality medical care. One hint might be in the article on female genital mutilation in the current issue of The Economist. The article reports that clitorectomies are much safer in Egypt now that they are overwhelmingly performed by doctors. (Article says 97% of Egyptian women are estimated to have had them.)

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-09-05 3:18:36 PM|| 2004-09-05 3:18:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 CL-And it will still be decided by fanatical parents upon minor girls. If some nutcase adult woman wants to have it done (under anesthesia, BTW) to prove her purity to her future nutcase husband, I guess I won't block the doorway. When it is performed on helpless little girls or forced on women, I will block the doorway.

Posted by jules 2 2004-09-05 3:36:21 PM|| 2004-09-05 3:36:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 whitecollar redneck wrote:
Tap...Tap... Hmmmm..... My sympathy meter seems to be stuck.

Mine too. They have been part of the fabric of lies who has been fed to the French public. This is a not a minor sin: democracy is voided when public does not have access to unbiased information. On many important matters like the European construction, anti-Americanism or the "exception culturelle" (read, maintaining some millionaire actors and directors on tax payer money) the French press position is unanimous and it will go far beyond editorializing (lying and silencing information) in order to brainwash the citizens.

There is a book (in French) about the lies and distorsions of the French press about "Iraqui Freedom". This puts in evidence the complete and cynical lack of respect for the people and the principle of democracy in use between French elites and journalists.

I have better things to lose sleep about than about the lives of those two sonofabitches. For instance the lives hundreds of russian children brutally murered.

Posted by JFM 2004-09-05 4:25:32 PM|| 2004-09-05 4:25:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 They knew the job was dangerous when they took it, Fred.

Posted by mojo 2004-09-05 4:46:45 PM|| 2004-09-05 4:46:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Mister redneck i advise using a simple surprise metre
i still have the one i made in scouts it is chrystal operated and requires no power it is sometimes tough to get a hair of a virgin to ticker the crystal tho

Posted by Half 2004-09-05 7:05:43 PM|| 2004-09-05 7:05:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 BBC is reporting 500 insurgents were taken in this operation, along with major weapons caches. A pretty big haul.

Posted by rkb 2004-09-05 7:07:35 PM|| 2004-09-05 7:07:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 #7 One hint might be in the article on female genital mutilation in the current issue of The Economist. The article reports that clitorectomies are much safer in Egypt now that they are overwhelmingly performed by doctors. (Article says 97% of Egyptian women are estimated to have had them.)

While slightly off topic, but not really, I want to take a moment and commend Classical_Liberal for bringing to our notice the horrendous rate of female ~~circumcision~~ genital mutilation going on in Egypt. I strongly urge everybody to read the article in question. It is a vivid demonstration of why France's hypocritical stance, both in Iraq and regarding the entire war on terrorism reeks the way it does.

Thank you, Classical_Liberal, you have contributed yet another bullet in my belt with which I can confront the appeasers and know-nothings who constantly argue against me about who, what, where, when and how those responsible for everything from 9-11 to Beslan continue propagating the most heinous assaults on modern civilization.

The ongoing surgical desexing of Islamic women is nothing short of a crime against humanity. At some point, these monsters must be brought to account for their hideous mutilations. Preferrably, with a death sentence playing some part in it.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-05 7:33:40 PM|| 2004-09-05 7:33:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "State of the Art medical care in Switzerland". By Jewish Doctors.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-05 8:36:15 PM|| 2004-09-05 8:36:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah Half, it was one of those 17 jewel swiss action sympathy meters. Next time I'll go digital.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-09-05 10:49:08 PM|| 2004-09-05 10:49:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Zenster:

Thanks for the link to that article in The Economist. I missed that. The one on female genital mutilation is in the September 4th 2004 issue. Doesn't look like it is generally available online yet. The 97% figure for Egypt was determined for the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo ten years ago when an effort was launched against mutilation. The article notes, "A decade of communication on the health risks of mutilation means that the figure has fallen slightly, but the big shift is that the procedure is now performed mainly by doctors, which makes medical arguments against it less convincing to those who seek it out."

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-09-06 12:35:32 AM|| 2004-09-06 12:35:32 AM|| Front Page Top

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