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January 25, 2005

The Ultimate Prisoner Abuse 101: Militants release hostage video

In previous posts I have written of the MSM's rants of prisoner abuse on the part of the U.S. and Coalition forces. Yet we continue to hear more about kidnapings and 'prisoner abuse' by the Islamic terrorists in Iraq, and not a word of outcry by the MSM - just a simple reporting of the 'news event' of yet another hostage pleading for his life.

Roy Hallums wasn't taken in battle or in the context of committing any violent act against anyone, he was at his home in a country just earning a living. Why isn't his kidnaping and imprisonment in what is certainly under far worse conditions than the terrorist prisoners of the Coalition forces, outcried by the MSM as prisoner abuse? Why does the MSM aseptically report hostage taking and imprisonment as 'just another news event' instead of the outlandish, animalistic, and inhuman crime of abuse against innocent human beings that it is?

Now we have Roy Hallums, pleading for his life in a video released by Islamic terrorists. From his daughter we learn:

(...)  "On November 1, 2004 around dinner time, my Dad was taken hostage in a hail of gun fire by about 20 armed attackers.  Some of the Iraqi insurgents covered their faces and some didn't.  Also, some wore their traditional robes.  They all carried automatic weapons and a few carried rocket launchers, some reports say.  My Dad was among six taken in an upper class area of Baghdad.  He was the only American taken that day, and there are some reports that say another American got away.  This detail has never been verified to me however.  People who knew my Father witnessed him being abducted, and they reported it to authorities."         

(...)  "I can only imagine what my Dad was feeling as he was forced from his compound that November day.  I don't want to imagine how he has been treated since that day as I hear of "Torture Houses" being found in Baghdad that held American hostages.  Picturing in my Dad in those conditions is too much to bear."
- Carrie Hallums

Where better to get background on the Roy Hallums hostage story than from the mouth of someone that knows and loves him - his daughter? But all she can do is speak of her love and concern for her dad because she just hasn't had any further information about him, until today.

(...)  Most of the information that I have, besides the fact that my father was kidnapped, is from the internet. We are not allowed to know anything about the status of my father's kidnapping, even down to whether or not his personal effects are being taken care of.    

Today in the Australian we have the sterile report:
INSURGENTS released a video today showing a US hostage pleading for his life, and militants assassinated a senior judge in Baghdad, intensifying a campaign of violence ahead of today's watershed election.

Posted by Hyscience at January 25, 2005 12:56 PM

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