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2004-04-16 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-16 11:35:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is an Al Q tactic to destroy the commerce potential in the country. It sends a signal to any non-com that is thinking about going to Iraq. The signal is STAY AWAY. That means limited economic growth and more handwringing from the media.

We need to stamp this shit out and fast.

Posted by remote man 2004-04-16 12:24:31 PM|| 2004-04-16 12:24:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is an economic revivial THAT urgent that civilians need to be ushered into combat zones? Can't this wait for a while, a year or two, even?

Posted by Seynour Paine 2004-04-16 12:35:01 PM|| 2004-04-16 12:35:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Synour: yes. Getting the Iraqi economy going is one of the most important things to be done. Get the job market going, give average Iraqis a reason to support the new government, get some prosperity into the country. Remember the adage about idle hands and the Devil.

Posted by Steve White 2004-04-16 12:52:02 PM|| 2004-04-16 12:52:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 For about two months before the hostage-taking started, you would hear stories about the burgeoning Iraqi kidnapping business. Check Zayed's archives for some descriptions of how wide-spread and penny-ante the kidnapping business got. Apparently it got worse than Colombia, which has a national tradition of for-profit kidnapping which rivals the drug trade.

It's my opinion that this current spate of kidnapping of foreigners is just the natural extension of that earlier expansion of the kidnapping business. I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians quietly ransomed their people, for instance.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-04-16 2:09:44 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-16 2:09:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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