40 Hostages Held in Iraq - Another Vietnam/Iran?
April 13, 2004 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Around 40 foreign hostages from 12 countries are currently being held by insurgents in Iraq, and the FBI is involved investigations into the abductions, a coalition spokesman said.
"The FBI is working with coalition forces and Iraqi security forces to seek out the hostage takers and the hostages," Dan Senor, spokesman for U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer, told reporters. "We have a number of other law enforcement agencies from the international community who are working on this."
Senor said the U.S.-led administration would not negotiate with "terrorists or kidnappers" to gain the hostages' release.
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Man, I'd HATE to be those people right now. I saw tht one Mississippi man on tv the other day and he looked like he'd been to hell and back. He's nothing but a civilian truck driver. I've got to give the insurgents their props for taking this route. Most of the journalists are either gone from Iraq now or living behind barricades. Now they're taking aim at civilian contractors. If no one will come to work over there, that helps get rid of the Americans that much more quickly.
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