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2004-09-02 Iraq-Jordan
French Hostages Handed Over to Iraqi Group
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Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-09-02 4:15:47 PM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 No doubt significant sums will change hands over this. More money for the insurgency.
Posted by Anonymous6176 2004-09-02 4:20:02 PM||   2004-09-02 4:20:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Submission is Islam. France proves is it all about sunmission to islam.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 4:26:04 PM||   2004-09-02 4:26:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 France proves is it all about sunmission to islam.

All that's left now is for France itself to become an official Islamic nation, complete with Sharia.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-02 4:33:52 PM||   2004-09-02 4:33:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 A6176: No doubt significant sums will change hands over this. More money for the insurgency.

This might just be a way for Chirac to fund the terrorists in a way that seems above board.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-09-02 4:56:14 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-09-02 4:56:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder what price they paid. I'm sure it was steep and we'll all pay for it for a long time to come.
Posted by peggy  2004-09-02 4:57:18 PM||   2004-09-02 4:57:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 And soon we will have the obligatory interview about how well they were treated by their captors, who fed them snails three times a day etc.
Posted by Matt 2004-09-02 5:07:59 PM||   2004-09-02 5:07:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And do not think that the Froggies are off the hook. The terrorists are great and fast learners of the principle of inductive reasoning. If it works now, it would work again. The road to hell is paved with appeasers and morons.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-02 5:22:00 PM||   2004-09-02 5:22:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Money to the insurgents, more dead Americans, Chirac gets to play I told you so.

seems like a red-letter day for the french.
Posted by PlanetDan  2004-09-02 5:22:17 PM||   2004-09-02 5:22:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Chirac while Prime Minister paid about $3M in 1988 to the Lebanese hostage-takers. Much of it was stolen by the arab intermediary. I'm betting he paid more like $10M this time around. That's good for a dozen more 9/11 attacks.
Posted by lex 2004-09-02 5:24:15 PM||   2004-09-02 5:24:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 France, Spain, and the Phillipines ought to get together and write a handbook for appeasement. They've walked the walk and talked the talk.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-02 5:29:35 PM||   2004-09-02 5:29:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Much of it was stolen by the arab intermediary

Hey! Don't be so critical, Abu gotta eat.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-02 5:36:08 PM||   2004-09-02 5:36:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The more the middleman steals, the fewer terrorists get funded. Let's hear it for corruption in the Middle East!
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-09-02 5:50:04 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-09-02 5:50:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Much of it was stolen by the arab intermediary

I prefer the term 'commission'...
Posted by Yasser Arafat 2004-09-02 6:09:18 PM||   2004-09-02 6:09:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It's time to break trade relations with the French. We can get your wine and cosmetics elsewhere. No more tourists to Paris. No sense in the US funding the French anymore.
Posted by ed 2004-09-02 6:13:59 PM||   2004-09-02 6:13:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Invade France.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 6:15:52 PM||   2004-09-02 6:15:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Invade France? Hell no. We did that once before, and look at how they feel about us now.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-02 6:35:30 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-02 6:35:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#17  Invade France? lol For what? To prop up their sorry welfare state? lol
Posted by 98zulu 2004-09-02 7:49:50 PM||   2004-09-02 7:49:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Leave France alone!

[wink]
Posted by Zarathustra  2004-09-02 7:52:54 PM||   2004-09-02 7:52:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#19  "Invade France? Hell no. We did that once before, and look at how they feel about us now."
Robert, do you mean the more fierce resistance they put up against McDonalds, than they did against the German Army?
Posted by tipper 2004-09-02 9:26:14 PM||   2004-09-02 9:26:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 We did it a couple of times already. Let the Swiss handle that this time.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-02 9:32:03 PM||   2004-09-02 9:32:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 So how does Suha feel about all these goings on? She seems as scarce as Theresa, ya know.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-02 10:19:22 PM||   2004-09-02 10:19:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 The 'kidnapping' was a blatant scam, designed to lay a guilt trip on domestic Muslims, and so soften their stance on the hijab ban.
Posted by Phrog Blancmange 2004-09-02 11:53:11 PM||   2004-09-02 11:53:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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