Reports are trickling in that a hostage negotiator who had made contact with the 'Swords of Righteousness Brigade' in an effort to free four Western peace activists has himself been taken hostage. The hostage negotiator is a local Iraqi who has previous experience in high-profile abductions. The man is said to have been missing since December 8th.
Norman Kember of England, American Thomas Fox, and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were taken hostage by an unknown group calling themselves 'The Swords of Righteousness Brigade'. 'As first revealed at The Jawa Report, The Swords of Righteousness Brigade' has been linked to the Islamic Army in Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq is an al Qaeda linked Salaafist jihadi group that has murdered foreign hostages in the past.
Curiously, the Islamic Army in Iraq website has been silent on the fate of the four hostages. Even more curious is the fact that although the group claimed responsibility for the murder of American hostage Ronald Schulz at an online forum frequented by jihadis, the Islamic Army in Iraq website has made no mention of it nor have they released the usual hostage snuff video.
The fact that the negotiator sent in to obtain the release of the four hostages may have been taken hostage himself is a bad sign. Hope for the best, pray for a miracle, but be prepared for the worst.
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Well if that isn't the definition of irony, I don't know what is.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 16, 2005 04:48 PM (0yYS2)
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Actually the definition of irony is the use of a word other than it was originally intended
/smartass mode
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at December 16, 2005 05:04 PM (JQjhA)
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Can we send in another hostage negotiator to rescue, the hostage negotiator, that went into the negotiate for the release of the hostages.
Kinds of reminds me of something?
oh! yes:
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
Posted by: dave at December 16, 2005 05:13 PM (CcXvt)
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I don't like that definition of irony, because it completely misses the essence of everything that's ironic. We use words in ways other than originally intended all the time, but we don't call it irony. In fact, irony really has nothing whatsoever to do with the meaning of a word, but everything to do with situational usage, i.e. Jimmy Carter criticizing any other President for any reason under the sun, for example.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 16, 2005 05:25 PM (0yYS2)
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maxie
Rusty got ya on the smackdown - don't go all whinny and girlee on us now.
Posted by: hondo at December 16, 2005 05:46 PM (3aakz)
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Agent Jones says some people are just too untrustworthy.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 16, 2005 06:35 PM (oC6D4)
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Harmeet Singh is a friend of mine...and I am hoping you all will help in getting him and his friends released by praying ....praying all you can....things are going from bad to worst and this is not how its supposed to be....Its supposed to be going from bad to good....I wish there were something I could do from here but praying is the last resort...
Posted by: Sairah Khan at December 16, 2005 07:08 PM (mjsuO)
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Praying is the first resort - the last resort you can not accept or resort to.
Posted by: hondo at December 16, 2005 07:11 PM (3aakz)
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Hondo, I will say this only once, and as a friend: You aint got a dog in this fight, so STFU.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 16, 2005 07:14 PM (0yYS2)
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Thank you Improbulus,
I have a dog in the fight. More specifically, and more respectfully, I mean Norman Kember. It's gotten pretty frustrating to wait without any news. In a sense that's a good thing because the lack of murder videos and statements of responsibility implies that the hostages are still alive. I will continue to join people like Sairah Khan and many others in prayer.
Posted by: Uncle Ben at December 16, 2005 07:22 PM (g4Hi+)
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Tell me I am crazy but everything seems to be weird, this is not the way terrorist have worked in the past, some things are different, coud there be a conspiracy going on ???
I mean when they kill someone they show it and in the case of Schulz in the first video of his abduction the video cuts out the people around him and no video on his so called murder ??? just makes no sense.
Anyone with ideas on it ?
Posted by: chase at December 16, 2005 07:24 PM (kTKtl)
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Ok maxie
I just couldn't resist.
Posted by: hondo at December 16, 2005 07:27 PM (3aakz)
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Agent Smith says to Hondo: none of the agents will ever tell you to be silent.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 17, 2005 05:31 AM (oC6D4)
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I didn't tell him to be silent, I told him to STFU, which, among men who know one another, is quite another thing. But then, the agents, adolescents who seem fixated with retaining their adolescent geekiness, know nothing about men, except the ones they meet in parks after dark.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 17, 2005 09:22 AM (0yYS2)
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Well hate to say it but...no one can be trusted in the world of Islam.
Posted by: Jester at December 17, 2005 01:59 PM (0zfa5)
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Agent Smith
Maxie has an excellent point. You can tell an enemy to go fuck himself; or you can tell a friend to go fuck himself - same word/expression but two different meanings in context.
Dr Rusty would consider this a prime example of irony.
I consider it a testament to the versatility of the english word - fuck.
Posted by: hondo at December 17, 2005 03:04 PM (3aakz)
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Yep! Prayer will save him. Works every time.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 21, 2005 03:18 AM (pSK/I)
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