AP: Ex-Hostage: Rebels Wanted Bush Re-Elected

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Ex-Hostage: Rebels Wanted Bush Re-Elected

Fri Dec 24, 6:34 AM ET Europe - AP

PARIS - French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq (news - web sites) said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush (news - web sites) to win re-election.

In a four-page account of their ordeal, one of the reporters, Georges Malbrunot, also wrote that they saw several other hostages who were later decapitated. The journalists said their captors viewed foreign businessmen working in Iraq as their enemies.

One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush's re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday's edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.

"We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop," Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.

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norml (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-25-04 02:46 AM
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Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected

Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 02:47 AM by norml
Former French hostage: Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected
By Associated Press, 12/24/2004 06:21



PARIS (AP) French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election.

In a four-page account of their ordeal, one of the reporters, Georges Malbrunot, also wrote that they saw several other hostages who were later decapitated. The journalists said their captors viewed foreign businessmen working in Iraq as their enemies.

One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush's re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday's edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.

''We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop,'' Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.

Bush beat Democrat John Kerry to win the presidency last month.

Another captor, who described himself as the group's head of internal intelligence, told the men that the Islamic Army has four enemies: American and coalition troops, ''their collaborators, that is to say Italian businessmen, or even French,'' as well Iraqi police and spies.

Malbrunot wrote that the Islamic Army has 15,000 to 17,000 members and that its hostage-takings are carefully organized.

''There are those who stop people on the roads, those that carry out interrogations, those that keep guard and those that judge,'' he wrote.

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Also - could you give me the link - I would like to hear what people have to say about this - thanks

Just enter the headline in Google News, and you'll find lots of links on this story.

Duh.

Of course they want the chicken hawks running the game, Saddam is gone and the US can't fight the insurgents properly. THey will fight until we leave and grab power....Thats what everyone is fighting for here....

the power of having the world's second biggest oil reserve....

Locking. Sorry. Merry Christmas.