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Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected: French hostage

Dobbs Town
24-12-2004, 18:10
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/12/24/france-hostages041224.html


Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected: French hostage

Last Updated Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:06:34 EST

PARIS - Iraqi militants wanted President George W. Bush re-elected in November because he would keep U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and that would boost the position of the insurgents, a French reporter says.

Georges Malbrunot, who was kidnapped by a militant group called the Islamic Army of Iraq on Aug. 20 and released Tuesday, based his comments on conversations with his captors.

"We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop," one of his captors told him, Malbrunot wrote in the paper Le Figaro on Friday.

Malbrunot's story said the Islamic Army has 15,000 to 17,000 members, is highly organized and has identified four groups of enemies:

1) American and coalition soldiers.
2) Foreign collaborators, such as businessmen.
3) Iraqi police.
4) Spies.

Malbrunot, who works for Le Figaro, and fellow reporter Christian Chesnot who was captured at the same time, feared for their lives. They saw other hostages who were later executed.

But the two men said they were French reporters, and reminded the militants that "France was against the war. France has a tough position against the occupation...That allowed us to show we were not pro-American," he said on his return to Paris on Wednesday.

Malbrunot said in a radio interview that they were finding it hard to recover from four months in captivity, "But the life of a free man is far easier than that of a hostage."

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Go figure.
Chess Squares
24-12-2004, 18:15
a reply any short of "duh" is misinformed
OceanDrive
24-12-2004, 18:30
dont be surprised...

If I was Osama....I would want Bush reelected too...
Angry Fruit Salad
24-12-2004, 18:31
I'm kind of amused.
Omnibenevolent Discord
24-12-2004, 18:38
The Iranian government was also in support of Bush's reelection... and weren't they the other nation in Bush's Axis of Evil along with Iraq and North Korea?
Irrational Numbers
24-12-2004, 18:41
Well, Bush is trying to be a nation builder...

I just think the nation he's building isn't turning out how he thought.

This thread makes me want to play Civilization III.
Chellis
24-12-2004, 18:46
"The cities I just invaded are in revolt, again!? God damnit...How am I going to take over more land, if all my forces go to quell these?"

Civilization 3 indeed...
Nutterstown
24-12-2004, 18:47
Bush could not master making a Nation...olny a huge mess!
Omnibenevolent Discord
24-12-2004, 18:48
"The cities I just invaded are in revolt, again!? God damnit...How am I going to take over more land, if all my forces go to quell these?"

Civilization 3 indeed...
I never got to play Civ 3 yet, but Civ 2 was teh roxxors. Still play it every now and again.
OceanDrive
24-12-2004, 18:51
"The cities I just invaded are in revolt, again!? God damnit...How am I going to take over more land, if all my forces go to quell these?"

Civilization 3 indeed...
Bush is probably considering to buils a juggernauth "mother of all" Church in fAalleluyha
:)