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2004-04-09 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-09 3:43:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-04-09 8:49:32 AM|| 2004-04-09 8:49:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yasser sez they're innocent, of being jews that is:
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat personally intervened on Friday to seek the release of two Palestinians kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq, his office said. "President Arafat has contacted our brothers in Iraq and other international bodies and friends today to help in releasing the two kidnapped Palestinians, Nabil George Razuq and Ahmed Yassin Tikati, both held in Iraq," a statement said. Accused by their captors of spying for the Jewish state, they were shown on Iranian television on Thursday along with Israeli identity cards, which Israel issues to East Jerusalem residents. An Israeli official denied any government links to the two. Razuq's family also denied he was an Israeli agent and said he had gone to Iraq to help fellow Arabs. Razuq is employed by Research Triangle International (RTI), a North Carolina-based, independent non-profit organization that has a major reconstruction contract in Iraq.

One: I'm sure they'll be quickly released as soon as the Iraqi terrorists receive word that they are fellow oppressed muslims.
Two: RTI has some explaining to do about it's hiring practices.

Posted by Steve 2004-04-09 9:20:54 AM|| 2004-04-09 9:20:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess Jihadis expect spies to have ID cards that say "ZIONIST SPY".

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-04-09 9:31:03 AM|| 2004-04-09 9:31:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 They're both Arabs and at least one of them is Christian, according to Ha'aretz.

Posted by Dar 2004-04-09 9:35:51 AM|| 2004-04-09 9:35:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's been a decade since I worked in the Research Triangle area, so I'm not sure what RTI was contracted to do. But both RTI and UNC Chapel Hill's B-school were doing a lot of work in transportation hubs, trans-shipping etc. when I was there.

The National Institutes of Environmental Health are in the research triangle too ... RTI might have some people working on environmental health issues (serious pollution, health surveys ahead of planned health care progrsm etc.) but if I had to guess (being out of the current loop a lot) I'd guess these guys were doing innocuous transport planning.

Posted by rkb 2004-04-09 2:16:12 PM|| 2004-04-09 2:16:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Israeli cabinet minister Gideon Ezra said both men were residents of East Jerusalem.

"They are not Israeli citizens," he told Israelâs Channel Two television. "They are not couriers or agents of the (Israeli intelligence service) Mossad."

But Ezra said Israel would try through diplomatic means to get them "out of the clutches of evil".

I'm hoping everyone noticed that Israel beat Yasser to the punch about intervening on this issue. Regardless of partisan politics, Israel stepped up to the plate in defense of these captives. Anyone want to bet that Arafat would have done this if the hostages were actually Jewish? Face the question squarely.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-09 5:47:14 PM|| 2004-04-09 5:47:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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