Al-Qaeda plot to snatch Crowe (the actor )

[rooboy]

Austalian actor Russell Crowe was the target of an al-Qaeda kidnapping plot in 2001 and has had FBI protection since.

The Oscar winning actor was first contacted by the FBI in 2001 and warned of the threat, according to GQ Magazine.

The FBI approach was made in the months before Crowe's Oscar win for Gladiator.

"That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase al-Qaeda," Crowe said.

"It was about - and here's another little touch of irony - taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilisation plot."

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160763004.html

Personally, I think Al Qaeda have done more damage to western civilization by NOT abducting him.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Hey now... I like Crowe...

Master and Commander was a GREAT flick!:thumbsup:

Now, if they're still looking for someone to kidnap, might I offer the names Dennis Miller, Bruce Willis, Ahnold, Ron Silver...? I guess they wouldn't work for al Qaeda, since no one would miss them...:D

[fryguy]

8. and if their gonig to snatch down under actors

....take Mel "The Passion" Gibson first....

[Nimrod]

2. They can have him

:)

[fryguy]

3. "iconographic Americans"?

um...isn't he a New Zealander?

glad that the FBI is busy protecting him at the Golden Globes instead of investigating crimes....

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Maybe they could have spent more time

protecting all those people in the WTC instead?

This guy is rich enough to hire his own protection or for his own country to provide for his 'needs'.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Al-Qaeda joining the RW attacks on the "Liberal Hollywood Elite"?

Unbelievable.

[lumpy]

6. Sounds like BS to me.

Crowe from the right?

[truthisfreedom]

7. destabilizing the economy.

is that all they can think of? look, you stupid bin laden followers (if you exist), START A F***ING BLOG. sheesh. or start a gay escort site and then pretend to be journalists and get press passes.

[AzDar]

9. Hopefully, they would have nabbed his "band" too!! LOL.....

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Bwahahaha

My thoughts exactly!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

10. This sounds like something out of South Park n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

12. I remember hearing about a kidnapping plot of Crowe...

but I don't remember hearing them say it was Al Qaeda.

[HannibalBarca]

13. LOL

They may have a job on their hands kidnapping him.

[sniffa]

14. Let them eat crowe

why not go after gibson?

[soleft]

15. That is so three weeks ago