1 She was *NOT* taken hostage. She went over there with the *ANNOUNCED* intention of helping the terrorists fight capitalist (read American/Brit) imperialism.

2 Dr. Shackleford, I plan on using your information here on Sgrena to do a 3-minute NPR commentary about it. If I let you know in advance that I'm doing it, I don't get paid for , and I publish it in its entirety on my blog with the credit and trackback given, is that plagiarism? If so, I'm likely to be guilty, because I think it maybe too hard to say, "I received much of this information from My Pet Jawa." Then I'd have to explain that I really don't have a pet Jawa, that Jawa really is referring to certain 'sandpeople', etc, and I only have three minutes.