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2006-01-09 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Frenbch del>/del>information radio France-Info (a continuous news radio a la CNN but radio not TV) reported it as having being freed by his captors thus giving the impression that it was a humatarian move from them. It was only when you listened to the detailed bulletin (not even sure it was in the short ones) that you learned they had stumbled on an American checkpoint and in their panic they had abandonned him.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-01-09 02:38|| 2006-01-09 02:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Good info JFM thanks for sharing it.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2006-01-09 03:24|| 2006-01-09 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Such observant terrorists: not quite sure whihc nations are involved in ravishing Mother Iraq... and clearly not at all aware at which street intersections the ravishers hang out. The tens of thousands of casualties and arrests have clearly diminished the calibre of the average hard boy in that part of the world. Hurrah for Flypaper!!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-09 07:51|| 2006-01-09 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Iraqi and Ironhorse Soldiers rescue French hostage
BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Jan. 9, 2006) â Soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Task Force Ironhorse Soldiers liberated a French hostage Jan. 7 in the Abu Ghraib area of western Baghdad.

The Iraqi Army Soldiers were searching farm houses for weapons caches while U.S. Soldiers from Task Force Ironhorse manned a checkpoint as part of an outer cordon. As the Iraqi Army closed in on their location, the kidnappers fled from a nearby farmhouse and left the French hostage.

After the kidnappers fled, the hostage, Bernard Planche, a 52-year-old employee of a French non-governmental Organization, ran up to a checkpoint manned by Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 22 Infantry.

Planche was first reported kidnapped in western Baghdad on Dec 5.

Iraqi Army and Coalition forces are continuing to search the area for the kidnappers, officials said.

(Editorâs note: Information provided by 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs and Task Force Ironhorse.)

Posted by ed 2006-01-09 21:57|| 2006-01-09 21:57|| Front Page Top

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