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2005-07-06 Iraq-Jordan

US Military Holding 5 "Americans" for Iraq Activity

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-06 11:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hope they hope they give me fair warning before identifying them. I want to have time to duct-tape my head so as to prevent it exploding when nincompoops start clammoring for their immediate release.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-07-06 11:57|| 2005-07-06 11:57|| Front Page Top

#2 So the Ronery Maytag guy finally found something to fill his spare time(rs).

Posted by .com 2005-07-06 12:02|| 2005-07-06 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Get the information you need, then shoot them for treason. Simple, yet it won't happen.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-06 12:08|| 2005-07-06 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 This just seems so unfair, as I'm sure anyone who is familiar with the role Cyrus the Great played in the invention of the automatic washing machine timer will agree.

Whatever happened to the principle of innocent until you commit the crime, flee the scene and engage in a standoff/shootout with the police? It's getting so you can't even hack into a website, steal credit card numbers and conspire to commit felonies without the FBI showing up on your doorstep. What a country!

Posted by SteveS 2005-07-06 12:12|| 2005-07-06 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 If they are jihadi then let em help sweep roadways for IED's.

Posted by Tkat 2005-07-06 12:12|| 2005-07-06 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Obvious profiling going on here, another sad day for the ACLU. ;-)

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-07-06 12:27|| 2005-07-06 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL SteveS thank gawd we still allowed to have stutter guns, long as they're at least ...ummmm, what is the legal minimum for a stutter gun?

Posted by Shiipman 2005-07-06 12:43|| 2005-07-06 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Gee...will these guys get to go to Gitmo?

And if they do, can we assume if they are killed, that they were innocent, but if they live, they must be guilty? We usta try witches that way, yes?

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-06 12:51|| 2005-07-06 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 What, not everybody here carries spare washing machines timers around in their car? I just can't tell you the number of times people have pulled up next to me and said, "Hey, dude, got a washing machine timer you can lend me?"

(How fast can washing machines run, anyway? What's the record for the 100-meter washing machine dash?)

Posted by Matt 2005-07-06 13:00|| 2005-07-06 13:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Gee...will these guys get to go to Gitmo?

No. If there's a basis to detain them, more likely they'll be turned over to the Iraqis.

Posted by Pappy 2005-07-06 14:34|| 2005-07-06 14:34|| Front Page Top

#11 US citizens? Though they should be treated in the same manner as any other foreign terr, the US MSM / Looneytoon outcry will be deafening, methinks.

Posted by .com 2005-07-06 15:05|| 2005-07-06 15:05|| Front Page Top

#12 oooooo..... more likely they'll be turned over to the Iraqis ....

You're not gonna tell anyone, are ya Pappy?

On the other hand, maybe if the UN and AmInt and Teddy and Turban Dick visited then in some Iraqi joint, Gitmo would look even better!

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-06 15:06|| 2005-07-06 15:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Kar...served several years in the Navy, the newspapers said.

So then he should understand the risks and the rules when wandering around a war zone, right?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-06 16:56|| 2005-07-06 16:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Shoot 'em, then hang 'em

Posted by Captain America 2005-07-06 17:41|| 2005-07-06 17:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Iraqi-~~Americans~~, Iranian-~~Americans~~ and Jordanian-~~Americans~~.
They aren't American's in my book. You're one or the other. To be an American with Iraqi blood yes, but being a proud American you would support America and what we stand for.
Maybe if we insisted on having all Americans chant our love of country it would clear out or identify some of these guys.
Are these some of the folks interpreting for us? Scary thought.
Having allowed others from countries to come to America to be educated seems to be allowing some to study ways of penetrating what we stand for and attempting to break us down. I wish there was a better monitoring system to control who comes into the country.
Let's hear these guys tell us of their undying love of America, to sing a few bars, sorry for profiling here but some folks seem to be so hung up on materialistic stuff.

Posted by Jan 2005-07-06 17:54|| 2005-07-06 17:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Why did these idiot reporters insist on calling muslims, Americans? Muslims are muslim first and a very distant second any other nationality. They behave this way everywhere around the world!!!

Posted by TMH 2005-07-06 21:35|| 2005-07-06 21:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Agreed, Jan. Hyphenation should refer to 100% Americans who are proud of what they or their ancestors left behind. Dual citizenship is something else altogether -- and I say this as the child of a dual citizen (Israeli & American). Choose one, give up the other and live with the result; nothing less is acceptable.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-06 22:53|| 2005-07-06 22:53|| Front Page Top

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