US-led coalition will not negotiate with kidnappers in Iraq

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US-led coalition will not negotiate with "terrorists" who may have been taking hostages in Iraq, senior coalition spokesman Dan Senor told a news conference.

"We will not negotiate with any terrorists that take hostage of any individual, and we will seek to capture or kill them," Senor said Friday.

Senor could not confirm the reports about hostage-takings, saying that the coalition was just "aware of initial reports".

"We are seeking to confirm the reports, but regardless of whether or not the reports are accurate, our message to anybody who would take hostage of any foreign citizen or Iraqi is the same," he said.

"It obviously would not be tolerated."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040409/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_kidnap_coalition&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[chelsea0011]

1. They may not be terrorists, but they could be residents

The administration wants the American people to think everyone is a terrorist and they are hiding under our beds. Remind you of anything? Communism in the 50's. Well, the truth is that the uprising may not be any organized terrorist organization but Iraqi residents.

[The Land of the Free]

6. so what if they are residents?

You can't kidnap people and threaten to burn them alive! We are fucking them over to a certain extent, but that is just as wrong

[JoFerret]

7. Residents, not pResidents

land of the free, home of the inability to distinguish enemy from friend.(they all look alike you know.)
Hearts and minds, hearts and minds.

[atreides1]

2. Maybe He Should Take A Trip

I think Senor should take a ride down to Fallujah, and if he's captured he can tell his kidnappers the same thing, in person!

[sniffa]

3. i wonder how the japanese feeL about it

[Justitia]

4. translation

"Hey look, we don't care about our OWN guys getting killed here, why would we give a rat's ass about YOURS?"

[teryang]

5. They always say this...

...but they gave away the ranch in Lebanon.