Breaking on MSNBC: Arab TV reports Marine being held hostage in iraq

[Cannikin]

No details on the website yet

Reuters article: (Thanks Bush_Eats_Beef)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040627/ts_nm/iraq_usa_hostage_dc

[cjbuchanan]

1. whoa

That is not good.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Well, Bush did say "Bring em' On".

:grr:

[SilasSoule]

3. Sorry to sound morbid and unsensing

but will this be the next televised beheading of the week???

Attacking Iraq was a good call. Things really appear to be working out over there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Oh, no. We know what's coming next... :^(

[shraby]

5. Fertilizer is going to hit

the oscillating blades over this one.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. It'll be a beheading, bombing, or both.

[Padraig18]

6. It was only a matter of time.

:cry:

[Cannikin]

7. I turn on MSNBC tv and they're showing a damn Will Smith special.

[buff2]

8. Oh,no.......

Plus they have three turks they are threatening to behead....This is unacceptable.I wish we could get rid of bu$h NOW. Just think of all the lives that could be saved if we had decent leadership.

[madrchsod]

9. back to the old days-

no bullets just a sword. interesting that we can beat people to death in our prisons yet beheading a person is barbaric...bring our sons and daughters home now!

[Bake]

35. Yeah, beating to death in prison is wrong and evil.

Of course it is. And when America does that, anywhere in the world, it is wrong.

But you utter not one damn word against the grisly practice of beheading. Why is that? Why is that the trite, stale, canned, AUTOMATIC response here on DU?

Sometimes this place really sucks. Loud and long.

Bake

[Az_lefty]

11. If they kill this Marine, Falluja's going to be a parking lot.

this whole thing in Iraq couldn't be more screwed up. Thanks shrub!

[fizzana]

12. Instead of beheading they should pose the hostage in identincal

poses to those seen in the pictures from Abu Ghraib.

Beheading is brutal but bear in mind that our friends, the Saudi's preferred method of legal execution is public beheading.

[GiovanniC]

23. Forgive Me For Saying This...

But why would you wish that on anyone? It was awful when we did it, and inexcusable. Two wrongs won't add up to a right.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Unless The Hostage Was One Of The Perps Your Suggestion

is profoundly wrong and even if he was two wrongs don't make a right....

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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. Reuters has this:

Iraq Militants Threaten to Kill U.S. Marine -- TV

8 minutes ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi Islamist group has kidnapped what is said was a U.S. Marine and is threatening to behead him unless Iraqi prisoners are freed, Al Jazeera television reported Sunday.

Al Jazeera said the group called itself the Islamic Response Movement. A brief video showed a blindfolded man dressed in camouflage and a Marine Corps identity card that named him as Wassef Ali Hassoun.

Jazeera said the group threatened to kill him if Iraqi prisoners were not released.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040627/ts_nm/iraq_usa_hostage_dc

[rasputin1952]

14. I don't want to see anyone killed...

I want our people home, and the nation's dignity back.

If this guy is killed, (I'm sure he has already been just about beaten to death/tortured), The Sunni Triangle will become nothing more than a pile of rubble and sand...thousands more will die.

I despise this bastard with all my heart and soul...:grr:

[Padraig18]

15. Damn George Bush and Dick Cheney to HELL!

:grr:

[Junkdrawer]

16. They're threatening to behead him...

I KNEW Nick Berg was just the beginning....

[freedomonk]

17. they captured an arab marine ?

idiots. it won't be long before normal arabs declare them infidels for beheading muslims

[stellanoir]

18. this is atrocious. . .

god forbid what's going to happen to this guy. And what ever happenned to the MP who was held hostage back in April. If memory serves his name was Maupin or something like that.

No news of him. Gawd I loathe both our media and our administration. The deceit is truly beyond what I ever imagiined in my worst nightmares.

The so-called extremists keep making demands. The powers that be keep ignoring them. People get beheaded. We carry on ever more increasingly desensitized to the nature of these heinous crimes. When will the insurgents get it. That the presiding governments don't give a shit about the lives of their constituents. Arghhhhhh.

[Bluebear]

24. argh is right

[nostamj]

19. so, that's 3 Turks, 1 Pakistani and 1 US Marine

under threat of beheading... in less than a week

and the insipid chimps STILL tells us how the world is safer under his godly leadership....

[MikeG]

20. Hey, how's the Laci Peterson case going?

[Bluebear]

21. More here....active duty Marine with Pakistani name

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040627/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_marine_hostage

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

22. WYNC Newsroom Update (Associated Press)

Jun 27, 4:37 PM EDT

Arab TV Shows Tape of Marine Held Hostage

By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_MARINE_HOSTAGE?SITE=WNYC&SECTION=HOME

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An Arab satellite TV network broadcast a videotape Sunday showing a blindfolded man in military fatigues and said he was a U.S. Marine taken hostage in Iraq.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military, but the video showed a card identifying the man by a Pakistani name and as an "active duty" Marine. The man had a trimmed moustache and his eyes were covered with a white blindfold.

The Al-Jazeera network said the group claimed it infiltrated a Marine outpost, lured the man outside and abducted him. The station said the group demanded the release of all Iraqis "in occupation jails" or the man would be killed.

The group identified itself as "Islamic Response," the security wing of the "1920 Revolution Brigades" referring to the uprising against the British after World War I.

[Moderator]

25. Kick

[Disturbed]

33. Beheadings

Seems to me that they play right into the cause of BushCo's War On Terrorism. Maybe the "insurgents" or "terrorists" want a huge retaliation from BushCo to further radicalize Iraqis. The more beheadings in my view, the more that Americans will become used to them and soon they will be standard and passe'. 'Oh, another beheading, oh well..." The threat of or actual beheading will not bring about any US prisoner release because that will be giving in to the enemey and the beheaders know this.

If they are seeking to turn Americans against the Occupation they would stop the beheading and show kindness to captured troops and civilians but who knows what their goals are?

This is a lose/lose situtation.

[nostamj]

28. how much does it SUCK

that this fell off GD this quickly...

there ARE issues beyond F911.... :grr:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. Upon Reflection This Story Doesn't Have TheRing Of Truth

I'll be surpised if it is true...

[JohnLocke]

30. This is a MARINE.

I'm shocked at how apathetic people seem to care.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

31. This Story Is Huge If It's True

but I think it's not...

[JohnLocke]

32. In general, al-Jazeera is not reliable...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. A Pakistani American Marine Lured Out Of His Barracks

Doesn't have the ring of truth...

[Cannikin]

36. kick

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

37. Headline is now "U.S. Military Confirms Marine Missing"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123879,00.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A Marine has been missing from his unit in Iraq (search) for nearly a week but it is unclear whether he has been taken hostage, the U.S. command said Monday.

In the statement, the military said a corporal had been missing from his unit in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (search) since June 21. The statement said the Marine was of Lebanese descent.

"Contrary to press reports, however, Naval Criminal Investigative Services cannot confirm that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun has been taken hostage," the statement said.