Scott Taylor, former Canadian soldier.on spreading democracy in Me

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1. Not sure that I agree America will have to make up stories about

Saddam Hussein. Hussein was a monster.

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2. this scott taylor?

CTV.ca News Staff

Updated: Thu. Mar. 13 2003 10:49 PM ET

Canadian kicked out of Iraq, accused of spying

A Canadian journalist has been kicked out of Iraq after the country's secret service accused him of spying on behalf of Israel.
Scott Taylor, publisher of the military affairs magazine Esprit de Corps in Ottawa, was in Iraq working for the Sun chain of newspapers.

Taylor said he was confronted by two Iraqi secret service agents who asked him to leave the country after accusing him of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.

In an interview with CTV News on Thursday, Taylor said he considered himself fortunate to have survived his latest encounter with the Iraqi secret service.

"I've met them before, I've had courtesy calls in the past but always very friendly," he said. "This was very different and certainly very unnerving for me. At this particular moment, given the pre-war paranoia and fear going on inside Iraq, the secret service is very much on the verge of losing their grip. It was very lucky for me to have been allowed to leave."

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Kidnapped Ottawa journalist freed in Iraq
Last Updated Sep 13 2004 04:00 PM EDT
CBC News


OTTAWA – Ottawa military writer and publisher Scott Taylor is safe in Turkey after being held captive for five days in Iraq.

Taylor, who was abducted last Tuesday in the town of Talafar by a group of masked gunmen, was released early Saturday.

The newspaper columnist and publisher of the military magazine Esprit de Corps said he was "tortured and beaten" and "also told I was going to die. They were going to behead me on Friday."

"It was pretty damn scary," said Taylor.

He said his captors thought he was an Israeli spy, moving him through seven locations while the town faced attacks from U.S. forces. Somehow he convinced his captors that he is a Canadian journalist.

Taylor said he's still alive partly because his captors knew he was Canadian and were well aware Canada did not join the American-led invasion of Iraq.

Eventually, his captors took him to a spot on the highway, flagged down a

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