Iraqi Insurgents Say Seize Six Foreigners

[GermanDJ]

"Iraqi insurgents said they had seized four Italians and two Americans on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Friday.

A Reuters journalist saw two captive foreigners, said by the insurgents to be Italians, in a mosque in a village in the Abu Ghraib district. One was wounded in the shoulder. Both were weeping."
(...)

"They took the journalist to a mosque, surrounded by about 40 fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, where they said all the hostages had been taken."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040409/ts_nm/iraq_abductions_dc


Absolutely gruesome what's going on over there. I wonder if there is any way at all to get out of this mess, without killing an awful lot of people. Horrible times we are living in. Terrible!

[demnan]

1. Helicopters in the middle of the night

is the only thing we can do, GET OUT NOW!!

[Fovea]

2. The situation looks a lot like

Beirut now.

This will be a very hard tactic to fight.
All the ways we could fight it, like the old
soviet tactics will only inflame the population
more.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[rfkrocks]

3. evil days-weeping hostages, dead soldiers, civilians

what a disaster this country has become-if someone told me in 1998 that we would occupy Iraq I would have asked them to go to detox-I just keep thinking of steve mcqueen in the movie the "sand pebbles" lying wounded on the ground about to die-"what happened? this wasn't supposed to happen"- maybe my country will awake from the intoxication of force finally and begin to follow the path of FD Roosevelt and be a good neighbor to the world-when will we realize therein lies our strength? We have paid for this arrogance with our blood and our treasure (tax cuts in wartime-BTW how much is the insurgency costing the budget now?)Just think how a small part of the military budget for Iraq would have helped people in the world if spent for humanitarian purposes? Bush is simply immoral