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Journalist Jihad Update. "Sadrists say CBS journalists to be freed," by Hamid Ahmed for Associated Press (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD - A deal has been reached with kidnappers for the release of two CBS News journalists, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Basra said Wednesday.Harith al-Ethari, a director of al-Sadr's office in the southern Iraqi city, said negotiations had persuaded the kidnappers to release the British journalist and his Iraqi interpreter later Wednesday.
"We reached an agreement with kidnappers to hand over the Iraqi interpreter to the police command in Basra and the British journalist will be handed over to al-Sadr's office in Basra this afternoon," al-Ethari told The Associated Press. He did not give a specific time.
Iraqi police and witnesses said the two were seized Sunday from a hotel in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. [...]
Kidnappings of Westerners and Iraqis — for political motives or ransom — were common in the past but have become infrequent recently with a decline in violence.
Since 2004, three journalists — Fakher Haider of The New York Times, as well as James Brandon of Britain and New York freelancer Steven Vincent — have been abducted in Basra, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Brandon was released, but Vincent and Haider were murdered, it said.
According to CPJ, at least 51 journalists have been abducted in Iraq since 2004. The New York-based group said the majority was released, but 12 were killed.
CPJ, which has recorded at least 126 journalists killed since the U.S.-led war started in March 2003, also condemned the murder of a 27-year-old Iraqi journalist this week in Baghdad.
Posted by Robert at February 13, 2008 3:16 PM
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Kidnapping for ransom is authorized for Moslems as per their holy Islamic scriptures.
This is so cuz Mohammed himself ordered just such a thing in Nakalah. Too bad about the felony murder that occured in the Nakalah caravan robbery, and also too bad about the encroachment of Moslem violence into the violence-less month of Ramadan, but what the hell the Companions were only during their jobs under Mohammed's direct orders.
So when pompous MSM journalists get all agitated about being kidnapped, they must keep in mind that they're bad mouthing Islam, one of the world's great religions.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 13, 2008 3:28 PM
yeah, you got it pig farmer! But, why hasn't this pig - al sadr - been given to allah to eat? Why do we continue to let this piece of donkey dung still exist? He is obviously a threat to any stabilization.
Posted by: R_not at February 13, 2008 3:46 PM
I wonder what kind of deal CBS New made. Will Katie Couric praise Al Sadr's Mahdi Army on the Evening News?
at February 13, 2008 3:59 PM
I wonder what kind of deal CBS New made. Will Katie Couric praise Al Sadr's Mahdi Army on the Evening News?
at February 13, 2008 3:59 PM
Why keep them? They won the war...
Posted by: greatcometof1577 at February 13, 2008 4:51 PM
Al Sadr's hudna is up for renewal this month....his advisors and top jihadists want to break the hudna....they've had their time to regroup. Regardless if the Hudna is renewed or not, it's just a matter of when will they break it, certainly not if.
Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at February 13, 2008 5:09 PM
According to CPJ, at least 51 journalists have been abducted in Iraq since 2004. The New York-based group said the majority was released, but 12 were killed.
Only 12 out of 51 kidnapping victims have been killed? That makes it a 76% survival rate. See? The vast majority of Islamic kidnappers are moderates.
Posted by: special_guest at February 13, 2008 6:48 PM
Here is an interesting piece on moslem support for BHO, read their agenda.
http://muslimsforobama08.com/issues.html
at February 13, 2008 9:29 PM
Sadr should have been put out of his misery long ago. His miserable existence must rile the Americans who have been prevented from sending him off to the virgins. But in Sadr's case I think he's more into the 24 boyz...
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 14, 2008 12:30 AM
Sneakyzionistcrusader:" Al Sadr's hudna is up for renewal this month....his advisors and top jihadists want to break the hudna....they've had their time to regroup. Regardless if the Hudna is renewed or not, it's just a matter of when will they break it, certainly not if."
Oh well well said.
This Iraqi invasion was and always be a complete nonsense.
What made a terrible mistake many times more awful is the US's vision of bringing demAAAAAcracy to the place.
As far as the Sunni tribes were concerned, this was THE big no-no. The West alienated the Sunnis from the off.
BIG TIME.
Even with the dealings with Sunni tribes over the past few months, by General Patreas, have been with the young blood. The tribal elders wouldn't touch the US.
And now the ever so slightly crazy Al Sadrs are fresh, regrouped and ready for another round.
Ignore the death, misery and carnage and bask in the hilarious incompetence of it all.
Posted by: ewha1 at February 14, 2008 12:43 AM
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