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Mister James
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PostPosted: 10:43 - 23 Mar 2006    Post subject: Norman Kember and others freed in Iraq Reply with quote
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4836218.stm

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One British and two Canadian peace activists held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in an operation by multinational forces.


https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1737660,00.html

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Mr Kember, 74, and two Canadian colleagues, Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, and James Loney, 41, were rescued by a special forces unit which stormed the house where they were being held.

The Christian Peacemaker Team workers and an American, Tom Fox, whose body was found last month, were kidnapped by a previously unknown organisation called the Swords of Righteousness Brigades on November 26.

The multi-national operation to free the hostages, involving British, Iraqi and other coalition forces, is thought to have taken place north of Baghdad.


I'm quite surprised that we managed to locate and extract them - obviously some superb work by Intel. types, followed by a nice cheeky rescue. Hopefully the special ops fellas wiped out the hostage takers to discourage further such incidents.

I wonder if they'll send Kember the bill?
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PostPosted: 12:06 - 23 Mar 2006    Post subject: Re: Norman Kember and others freed in Iraq Reply with quote
Mister James wrote:
Hopefully the special ops fellas wiped out the hostage takers to discourage further such incidents.


No one but the captives present at the time and no shot's fired.

According to the spokesman on the news earlier.

Maybe it was a tip-off from the captors themselves? Unwilling to go through with the threat and lost for what to do next? Or more likely they were warned by Iraqi troops.
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PostPosted: 12:26 - 23 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well great news anyway Thumbs Up
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Mister James
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 23 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quite possible that the muslim 'outrage' around the world had something to do with shaping their actions.

The news reports I saw at the gym didn't mention no tangos on site, although they did state no shots fired and speculated that there were possibly prisoners taken.

Either way a good result.
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PostPosted: 15:03 - 24 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's a tango?
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 24 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry - read too many Tom Clancy novels.

Tango = terrorist/opfor/bad guys
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