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Success! Only 20,000 Kidnapped in Iraq Since January

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by Rahodeb

A report prepared by a group of 125 non-governmental organizations in Iraq has discovered some shocking numbers. 20,000 Iraqis, who don’t seem to understand they are better off not living under Saddam Hussein, have been kidnapped.

The survey, which underscores the massive social upheaval caused by rebel activity and increasing sectarian conflict, does not give the number of people killed. However, it says that 15,462 people have been wounded.

The 19,548 people kidnapped includes 4,959 women and 2,350 children...The thousands of Iraqis being kidnapped are primarily the victims of political rivalry and of common criminal gangs seeking ransom.

The report states 80 percent of the current violence is politically motivated. Civil war, anyone?

The violence is generated by armed militias linked to political parties and is fed by the [Iraq’s] porous borders and by the delay in forming a new government.

The survey does not record the number of people killed but on-line website Iraqbodycount.org has estimated that between 34,511 and 38,660 civilians have lost their lives since the invasion. That count is taken from media reports. No word on whether the dead think they are “better off.”

 

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NickFaust

NickFaust

USA
April 2004

APR 28, 2006 06:20 AM

UpTight said:

oyaji said:

UpTight said:

oyaji said:
UpAlbion is being idiotic? NEVER! Go on!



maybe - but at least I'm not a middleaged, rich, white lawyer in a PLO mask.




How many times are you going to attempt to goad me into an asinine discussion about my keffiyah?



perhaps you have a REALLY ugly nose

perhaps you are really Rush Limbaugh

perhaps you think it makes you look "hard" and "radical" rather than a putz

either way - stick with it, it makes me smile



This from the man who changes his profile pic every twenty seconds.

What are we supposed to think about the guy who puts a woman's beaten ass up as his profile pic. That you are a tough but compassionate anti terrorist? Fucking bullshit. You're a wanker just like all the rest of us.

Get the fuck over yourself.

UpTight

UpTight

I'm lost
December 2003

APR 28, 2006 09:18 AM

NickFaust said:

What are we supposed to think about the guy who puts a woman's beaten ass up as his profile pic.



and are you too much of a weasel to post the context?

UpTight

UpTight

I'm lost
December 2003

APR 28, 2006 09:19 AM

oyaji said:

Perhaps I work at a conservative, white shoe law firm and I don't own another large scarf and I was looking to amuse myself when I was in the office for 12 hours on a sunday.

Jesus.



I hoped it was a joke

well part of me didn't

NickFaust

NickFaust

USA
April 2004

APR 30, 2006 08:33 PM

UpTight said:

NickFaust said:

What are we supposed to think about the guy who puts a woman's beaten ass up as his profile pic.



and are you too much of a weasel to post the context?



The context in which I saw it, was your postings in CE threads. If there was some other context, you never said anything about it in any of those threads.

I think that you think people pay more attention to you than the actually do.

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