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2007-08-18 Iraq

Gunfight ends with release of hostages, two insurgents dead

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Odd that this happened six weeks ago. Anyone care to speculate for the delay?

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-18 11:50|| 2007-08-18 11:50|| Front Page Top

#2 The women and children were taken after having to witness the execution of their male family members. They were held for more than a month's time, during which the women endured daily rapings and beatings and were constantly threatened with beheading, one of the women later said in a statement given to U.S. Special Forces.

Taking female captive for sexual slavery and doing daily chores at their camp, after slaugthering their relatives, was a staple of the algerian jihadis during the 90's civil war. I clearly remember a terrorist communique which read like a dark version of Mel Brooks' line about "stealing the women and raping the cattle", stating that since the algerian population at large was apostate (a paleo scholar living in London cared to made that islamically official), then the jihadis were entitled to "kill them, take their possessions, steal their livestock, and their womanfolk", this was put as clearly as that.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-18 12:00|| 2007-08-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

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