Breaking on CNN: Governor of Iraq's Anbar province abducted...

[goodboy]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_GOVERNOR_KIDNAPPED?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

note: this is where the "major US offensive against 'insurgents" is happening right now.

[sniffa]

1. wow

is this the highest profiLe, kidnapping yet?

[goodboy]

3. I think so. This is also where the "major US offensive" is taking place.

[calimary]

28. Man, things are just ducky over there, aren't they?

Let's all move there, 'eh? We're outsourcing our democracy over there anyway. Garden spot of the New American Century Middle East. I'm personally going for the flowers and the bon-bons. See how we're gaining the upper hand over all those icky swarthy-skinned males who hate us for our freedoms?

[dave29]

2. They got te governor.

yeehaw.

[goodboy]

5. things are going so great over there...they wanted to take him out to

dinner.

[saigon68]

10. This Quisling will now be brought to task

[Tesha]

27. Maybe we can trade Schwartzenegger for him? Gov-for-gov? (NT)

[movonne]

35. My thoughts exactly...He would show them what a really girly man

looks like...In fact that is where he should be, after all he is the terminator...

[MadisonProgressive]

41. He'd better buy a good supply of 'DEPENDS'

[mike_c]

4. no worries, insurgencies always do this sort of thing...

...as their backs are breaking. Pay no attention to this. Victory is just around the corner!

[goodboy]

6. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel..freedom's on the march!

[tabasco]

14. Yeah buddy, they're getting desperate now.

We will know we are succeeding when they capture all the governors.

[KansDem]

26. Right! They're desperate! That's why they took the governor...

If they were sitting fat and sassy, then they'd be kidnapping underlings!

I bet George isn't worried!

[IChing]

7. link

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_GOVERNOR_KIDNAPPED?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[goodboy]

9. thanks!

[Rainscents]

8. Freedom is around the corner!!!

Don't worry my fellow Iraqi people... I am GWB, and I am here to save you all!

[KansDem]

29. You're not REALLY GWB!!!

If you were, then you would have said, "Don' fret none, Iraqians...Ah'm GWB, an' ah'm heer ta save y'all!"

Hahaha, you can't fool us; you're just a GWB wannabee! :D

[htuttle]

11. LOL! Oh, marvelous work, boys

You go on an offensive which turns out to be a trap, then they steal the puppet governor right under your noses.

I don't think we can take too many more of these 'victories'...

[dave29]

12. Bush was a Governor once.

Lucky for him, he never faced beheading.

[reprobate]

37. Would have been lucky for us if he had!

[Hissyspit]

13. Deputy Governor of Anbar kidnapped LAST YEAR:

Deputy governor of Iraqi province kidnapped
September 9, 2004

Gunmen abducted the US-appointed deputy governor of Anbar province yesterday, relatives of the official said.

Several masked gunmen stormed the house of Bassem Mohammad Munajed in the town of Fallujah and took him away about mid-morning, the relatives said.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/08/1094530698940.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true

[dArKeR]

15. aWol and Pickles dance, smile and laugh on the souls of American Soldiers!

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. Kick off that Civil War!

Looks like the starting gun has been shot and they're off!

[Zynx]

17. He's dead

[Teaser]

19. News?

Or simply logical inference?

[Zynx]

30. Inference - That's not a good place to be kidnapped.

[Teaser]

31. nods (nt)

nt

[warrens]

18. A sure sign we have them on the run

Yup, the more they do the more desperate they must be. Freedom on the march. Eagles up. Go Bunnypants Go.

[still_one]

20. report from debka.com

Governor of Iraq’s W. Anbar province kidnapped. Relatives say he will be released when US troops leave Qaim region near Syrian border, site of largest US air-ground counterinsurgency offensive in Iraq in 6 months.

[daleo]

22. It seems doubtful that Bush would give up an offensive.

So, this guy is probably done for. Chalk up another one for the "Let Freedom Reign" monkey.

[still_one]

23. i tend to agree

[NNN0LHI]

25. And then on the other hand...

...it might give our military a face saving reason to retreat gracefully because they just may be getting their asses handed to them by the Iraqis?

Don

[daleo]

40. I guess that is possible.

Although Bush claims to savor the "bring it on" experience. Not that he has to do any of the actual experiencing.

[leftchick]

39. well now we can expect another

execution video. The success in Iraq is killing everyone.
:(

[onehandle]

21. Nothing to see here. Now back to MJ. nt

[Alpharetta]

24. "better a governor in Iraq than a governor in the U.S."

Rushspeak:

See? We TOLD you there was terrorism in Iraq. Thank God our troops are fighting there in Iraq it instead of fighting it here in the United States.

[keopeli]

33. This is exactly what my parents believe.

[reprobate]

38. Just wait. They will in time.

[Massachusetts]

32. Sure..

"Relatives say he will be released when US troops leave Qaim region near Syrian border, site of largest US air-ground counterinsurgency offensive in Iraq in 6 months".

[goodboy]

36. yeah. (NT)

[dArKeR]

34. families, who took refuge in the former president Saddam Hussein's

A US soldier lights a cigarette as an old Iraqi woman sits on the ground inside a former military compound at al-Dora district south of Baghdad yesterday. More than 70 displaced families, who took refuge in the former president Saddam Hussein's army military compound, refused an offer of money from the US army in exchange for leaving. Thousands of Iraqis, who were evicted from their homes by post-war rent hikes, live among of the ruins of devastated military compounds across the war-torn capital.
PHOTO: AFP

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/10/2003253955

[The_Casual_Observer]

44. 3 years on, that guy sure looks like a "liberator" to me!

An oil liberator maybe.

[leftchick]

42. Whoa! Gov. Al-Mahalawi used to be Saddam's boy....

Now he is a plain old collaborator. And probably a dead one.

~snip~

Al-Mahalawi only recently became governor after tribal leaders forced out his predecessor, Fassal Raikan al-Gout al-Namrawi, who narrowly escaped a roadside bombing in February. Al-Mahalawi, who is originally from Qaim, served as mayor of the town under Saddam Hussein.

[Roland99]

43. "holding the governor until U.S. forces pull out of the Syrian border town

Like that's going to happen.