From CNN, with thanks to JJP Mackie:
(CNN) -- The Arabic language news network Al Jazeera aired pictures Sunday of what it said were two Russian electrical workers taken hostage last week by an Islamic group in Dura, south of Baghdad.A statement from a group referring to itself as Jaish al-Tifa al-Mansoura -- the Army of the Victorious Sect -- said it was holding the men and called on countries participating in "this criminal act," presumably the war in Iraq, to withdraw their citizens "before it's too late." ...
"We are showing the whole world our prisoners' pictures and how the Muslim mujahedeen are treating them," the previously unknown group said in the statement, which accompanied the tape.
"We have decided to punish America and its followers, and we'll destroy the crusaders' imperial dream," the statement continued.
The men were working for the electric power consortium Inter Energo Servis when their vehicle was ambushed south of Baghdad. Another IES worker was killed in the attack, a company spokesman said.
These man were working for the electric power consortium Inter Energo Servis and they are not Army Personal.Is this a POWER of Alah wariors ,to kill an poor workers and to show them on the tapes like they are members of an Army.
I hope that this time they will use GUNS instead of those primitiv things , i wont even say that things name. If they killd some politician , I would say BRAVO , but civilians, NO.
Kill same USA Republican Senator , but for GOD sake leave the ordinary tax Payers in Peace. They are HUMANS like you .
By the way a SOLDIER poses only an HONOUR , and when he loses that he is JUST a MURDEROR , low of the lowest.IN BOSNIA ALAH SOLDIRS commited such crimes that any normal disent HUMAN could not evan think ABOUT IT. I respect an SERB officers who killd those bustards in CIVILIS way, BULLET IN THE HEAD. EVAN THAT WAS TO GOOD FOR THEM.
I HOPE THAT THEY WILL CHANGE TACTICS AND GO FOR USA POLITICIANS AND LEAVE POOR WORKERS ALONE.
Things they done , have made more damage for them,then to AMERICANS.
REUTERS and ABC news:
Has just reported that these 2 russians have been released (monday morning) and were handed over at the home of a local sheikh who apparently helped negotiate the release of the men, both where employees of a Russian energy services company Interenergoservis.
Every comment that I have read from the arab world tells me that if John"flip flop" Kerry wins the presidential election, the terrorists will see this as a victory for them as they did for Spain.
Also one has to look hard in the media, but Spanish soldiers are coming home and feeling embarrassed for having been asked to leave Iraq by their new socialist government leader Zapetero.
I saw Alexandra Kerry's picture at the Canne's Film Festivalon the Drudge Report. Interesting dress...
I wonder if Daddy voted for it, before he voted against it?
Quote: "We have decided to punish America and its followers, and we'll destroy the crusaders' imperial dream."
Every single time I read this kind of propaganda I am reminded that these are the very same people that practice a faith that tells them in no subtle language to convert EVERYONE by persuasion or FORCE.
Does a word synonymous to "hypocrisy" even exist in Arabic?
Foehammer,
Thee is a synonym for hypocrisy in Arabic. I think it translates in English to be "Islam."
Is-1-am...and then there were tWO. Those terrorists think to make us afraid, but what's to fear; we all have to die some time anyway.
I would rather die fighting those fascist criminals.