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Someone is going to get called on the carpet in the Jihad Publicity Bureau -- you know, the guys who post the braggadocio-laden, threat-filled announcements on Islamic websites. From The Observer, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
A British man kidnapped in Iraq and held for five days by armed men who threatened to behead him was rescued last week by American special forces and astonished to discover that no one had noticed he was missing.Phil Sands, 28, a freelance journalist, was held by gunmen who ambushed his car in Baghdad. He said the worst aspect of his ordeal was imagining the anguish of his family. But his parents were holidaying in Morocco and knew nothing of his sufferings until he called them after he was released during a chance raid by US forces on a farm outside Baghdad.
Posted by Robert at January 15, 2006 2:20 AM
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guess he should have bought one of those pre-paid untrace-able cell phones that groups of arabic men have been buying at Target stores.
That way he could have called his mom more often and his family might have noticed he was missing. Moral of the story, call home more often.
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at January 15, 2006 2:58 AM
Also to make friends among your work mates and let people know where you're going.
I do that and I'm only in the Australian bush where generally you don't have bastards with guns and a bad attitude.
Posted by: marilyn at January 15, 2006 3:27 AM
Now, there's a Brit who appreciates the US Armed Forces, I'd venture.
In this case, it's fortunate his family was unaware of his 'adventure.' He was right, their anguish would have been unimaginable. God bless our troops.
Posted by: Merry Whitney at January 15, 2006 3:33 AM
God bless America, indeed!
Posted by: david at January 15, 2006 6:12 AM
The mainstream media couldn't be less interested in a story that reeks of positive spin for the US military, eh?
Posted by: voletti at January 15, 2006 7:35 AM
God Bless American Soldiers all over the World! They are the BEST!
Posted by: herself at January 15, 2006 11:29 AM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/13/MNGKLGMDL219.DTL
"Last month, after covering the national election to choose Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein parliament from the volatile Sunni city of Samarra, where he was embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, Sands "decided to give this not-being-embedded thing another whirl." On Dec. 22, he started reporting on his own in Baghdad, working with an Iraqi friend as his guide and translator."
"Four days later, Sands found himself in the trunk of a car traveling at high speed on paved roads, then on what seemed to Sands like gravel paths."
Then:
"I ... failed spectacularly," he said, referring to his attempt to report outside of an embedded situation.
Oh yeah. Burning question: Gonna' do it again?
Posted by: zhu97 at January 15, 2006 6:37 PM
What is a British mans parents doing vacationing in Morocco.
In the world in which we live, a kaffir sojourning in the land of Islam has to have a death wish.
at January 15, 2006 8:28 PM
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