{"id":170,"date":"2004-09-08T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=170"},"modified":"2004-09-08T23:48:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T04:48:35","slug":"confusion-over-fate-of-french-hostages-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Confusion Over Fate of French Hostages in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorist scum holding two French journalists are apparently claiming that they <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=574&#038;ncid=732&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/nm\/20040908\/wl_nm\/iraq_france_dc\">neither asked for a $5 million ransom nor set a 48-hour deadline<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> An Internet statement purportedly from the Islamic Army in Iraq militant group holding Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot dismissed a statement that appeared on the Web on Monday in the name of the militants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is absolutely no truth to the statement carried by the media on the Internet &#8230; comprising financial and other demands,&#8221; said the statement, posted on a Web site identified as belonging to the Islamic Army in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Another statement on the same Web site said the group was warning &#8220;any party whatsoever from interfering&#8221; in the case of the French hostages, who were both seized on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Islamic Army&#8217;s legal committee will announce its decision soon, God willing,&#8221; said the statement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>France, oblivious to the reality that is the global threat of Islamist terror, remains befuddled.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> France was stunned by the kidnappings because it had opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq and has not sent troops to the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve searched, but it seems there&#8217;s no truth that a new Maginot Line is being constructed.  Apparently, even that would be taking too strong a stance.<\/p>\n<p>Can we please stop referring to France as an ally?  Two-plus centuries ago, fine.  Since then, only at their need, not ours.  Hell, they bailed out of the military side of NATO in the darkest hours of the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorist scum holding two French journalists are apparently claiming that they neither asked for a $5 million ransom nor set a 48-hour deadline. An Internet statement purportedly from the Islamic Army in Iraq militant group holding Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot dismissed a statement that appeared on the Web on Monday in the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}