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The story apparently originates in a Spanish newspaper, then was filtered through AFP, so take it with a few grams of sodium iodide: ’Mossad helped release Betancourt’. According to Vanguardia, Israel, France and the US participated in the operation for different reasons: France because of Betancourt’s half-French nationality, the ...
CNN breathlessly reports that the Colombian military committed “war crimes” in their rescue of 15 hostages, because one rescuer may have worn the emblem of the Red Cross: Colombian military used Red Cross emblem in rescue - CNN.com. BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) — Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross ...
Just being announced: up to 15 hostages held by FARC terrorists for more than 5 years have been released in Colombia... UPDATE at 7/2/08 12:41:24 pm: Colombia says rescues Betancourt, Americans. BOGOTA, July 2 (Reuters) - Colombia said on Wednesday it rescued three Americans and French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt ...
Here’s a thread for the hostage situation at a Clinton campaign office in new Hampshire: Man takes hostages at Clinton office. ROCHESTER, N.H. - A deranged man wearing what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday, took several ...
Thanos at Noblesse Oblige has the shockingly little-known story of the private security contractors being held hostage in Iraq and/or Iran: Hostage A Year and Three Days.
When the Germans and the South Koreans make deals with the Taliban to release hostages, and pay large sums of money in ransom, the Islamic supremacists turn right around and use that money to murder and kidnap more Westerners: Taliban use hostage cash to fund UK blitz. No one should ...
The source for this story is yet another Peace/Justice/Fluffy Bunny/Death to America group (with an interesting board of directors) calling itself the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran. For some reason this tends to make me doubt their credibility. But they’re reporting that the BBC has apologized for ...
Former UN ambassador John Bolton sums up the British sailor fiasco, in a Financial Times article: Iran won sailors battle with Britain: Bolton. Some commentators here have said the United States should learn a lesson from Britain’s handling of the detainees issue in respect to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear ...
Here’s the interview with British sailor Faye Turney from ITV, posted by LGF operative Kasper in two parts. [Video] [Video]
The Iranians have released another video of the hostages, supposedly to show how well they were treated. This just keeps getting worse.
Faye Turney, the female British sailor held hostage by Iran, is appearing (for money) on ITV today. We’ll have the video a bit later, courtesy of LGF operative Kasper. Meanwhile, the UK government has now banned paid military interviews. LONDON (AP) - Britain on Monday banned all military service members ...
It’s shocking, I know, but the mullahs are gloating and promising more of the same for Britain: Buoyant Teheran warns of further kidnappings. Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to ...
The pathetic saga of the British hostages has reached rock bottom: Fury as the hostages sell stories. The 15 British military captives who were released by the Iranians have been authorised by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to sell their stories. MoD officials claimed that the move to lift the ...
From Iranian TV. I don’t even know what to say about this, except that it’s very disturbing.
Retired Army Col. Jack Jacobs calls the British sailors’ press conference the most disgraceful thing he’s seen in 40 years. (Hat tip: Hot Air.) [Video]
Jules Crittenden has a good compilation of the output of the analysis and opinion mills, analyzing and opinionating about the British sailor fiasco: Home is Where the Humiliation Is. Publius Pundit notes that those hideous polyester suits Iran made the hostages wear had an odd feature—no ties: Dressed To Mock. ...
The mullahs dressed their British hostages up in horrible polyester suits and staged a last series of propaganda photos, and now they’re on the way back to Britain: British navy crew leaves Iran for London. Tony Blair says, “No hard feelings.” TEHRAN, Iran - Fifteen British sailors and marines held ...
Front page Daily Kos writer “Meteor Blades” knows who to blame for the Iranian seizure of British sailors: Daily Kos: More Evidence that British Captives Are Payback for U.S. raids. His/her/its Bush-loathing screed is based on this article by Patrick Cockburn at UK leftist paper The Independent: The botched US ...
Daily Kos, Markos, Netroots, Nutroots, Moonbats, Iran, Hostages, Britain, Anti-Americanism
When news broke that the Iranians had seized 15 British sailors, I asked, “What would Maggie do?” Well, I don’t really know what Margaret Thatcher would do in this situation. That’s why I posed it as a question. But I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be this. How could the British ...
Mark Steyn on the appalling fecklessness of the West in the face of undisguised Islamic supremacist aggression: Taking of hostages by Iran is not Britain’s finest hour. The U.N. will do nothing for men seized on a U.N.-sanctioned mission. The European Union will do nothing for its “European citizens.” But ...
The mullahs have been greatly encouraged by the British government’s inaction, and a mob (yes, this time a real mob) attacked the British embassy in Tehran this morning. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Rocks and firecrackers have been thrown at the British embassy in Tehran as the row over 15 captured ...
Former Iranian president Mohamed Khatami, who was recently feted as a “moderate” on a tour of US and British universities, and who gave an autograph to John F. Kerry in Davos, boasted to the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Iran’s abduction of 15 British sailors is a demonstration of the ...
MEMRI TV has the video from Iranian television of those captured British sailors confessing to trespassing in Iranian waters and apologizing abjectly. [Video] British journalist Matthew Norman agrees with the Iranians: We’ve lost the authority to lecture Iran. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) UPDATE at 3/30/07 8:28:57 am: To make one ...
A mob in Tehran called for the execution of the 15 British hostages being held by the mullahs. And Iran now says they won’t release female sailor Faye Turney, despite her admission of guilt. In an interview broadcast on Iranian TV, Leading Seaman Turney said the group had been seized ...