Yahoo / Reuters: U.S. Says Won't Bow to Demand of Kidnappers in Iraq

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040922/ts_nm/iraq_dc

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With time running out to save a British hostage in Iraq (news - web sites), U.S. officials said on Wednesday they were not about to free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.

The Iraqi government said judges had ruled that a weapons scientist -- one of only two women Washington says it holds -- should be given a conditional release, but only in a few days.

It was unclear whether Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's demand for all women to be freed even referred to this pair at all -- both scientists, they worked for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s secular government.

The Jordanian Islamist's Tawhid and Jihad group, responsible for some of the bloodiest violence in Iraq, says it killed American building contractors Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong after its demand was not met. It says their British colleague Kenneth Bigley, 62, will be next to die but has set no deadline.

[BeHereNow]

1. They don't care about hostages...

Maybe the kidnappers have failed to realize
that the global elite don't care about hostages,
civilians, soldiers or anyone else. The kidnapping technique
aint gonna work cause the powers that be just plain don't care.
They'd prefer it if we were all dead, more for them is the plan.
They probably appreciate the help in eliminating common folk.

[Cocoa]

2. test of sovereignty

if the sovereign Iraqi government says they should be released, and the U.S. embassy* says they shouldn't, who prevails?



*lol

[dArKeR]

3. Why doesn't Kerry say that he served his military duty now it's time for

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz... to pick up a rifle and go to Iraq.

[hatrack]

4. But Allawi's government apparently will, so why bother?

We look tough, the Iraqis negotiate.

[Tommy_Douglas]

5. How's that tough resolve going to last?

I know Bush and company don't care about anybody but themselves but how long will the U.S. public be able to endure weekly beheadings?

[saigon68]

7. Sooner or later the Idiots who go there for $$$$ will learn

"The secretary will disavow any knowledge of your identity, whereabouts or activity.

You're on your OWN----SUCKER.

[BeHereNow]

8. Indefinitely...

They endure the violence of Fox news, reality shows,
and hate talk radio-
They are conditioned to endure brutality and have
developed a certain appetite for it actually.

All the while wrapping themselves in selected
pages from the bible and flags made in China.

Americans are a hideous lot if you think about it.

Just look at a "People" magazine and what the people
in this country consider "entertainment."

I am increasingly ashamed to be one.

BHN

[Career Prole]

6. Maybe I'm over-thinking this, but I wonder if the U.S. has secretly

made a deal already to get Kenneth Bigley released, but the U.S. is playing it like it's the Iraqis releasing the woman against Shrub's will?
The pay-off for the U.S. doing this would have to be substantial, and would of necessity be owed to bushco by the British since both American hostages are dead already.

Then I remembered another story I read here Sunday...
Britain to cut troop levels in Iraq...can't be good for shrub to have that story pop up here right before the election.
If Bigley gets sprung and then the Brits change their minds suddenly about reducing troop levels...hmmmmmm.