ROFLMAO!!!! Hostage 'Escape' was Really a Release

[radwriter0555]

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2004/030504hostageescape.htm

Break For News| May 3 2004

Iraq hostage Thomas Hamill is back in the hands of occupation forces, after he was released as part of the deal for a US pull back in Fallujah.

The US military claims Hamill was discovered Sunday morning when he approached a US patrol in the town of Balad, about 50 miles north of where he was abducted.

They say he was locked in a building and heard the troops driving by. He pried the door open and ran half-a-mile down the road and caught up with the convoy.

However, this is supposedly the second time Hamill escaped from rebel custody. He was supposedly recaptured the first time.

Hamill, a truck driver working for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, had an infected gunshot wound in his left arm and was flown by helicopter to Baghdad.

[Sequoia]

1. Sniff, sniff...who's going to make an awful propaganda movie

about this incident. All the characters will be pretty and thin.

[trumad]

2. legitimate link?

[slaveplanet]

5. link

http://www.breakfornews.com/archives.htm

then hit " homepage " bottom left

[trumad]

8. It's still not legitimate

come on, you guy's can do better than that?

[slaveplanet]

11. follow the links

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.hamill/index.html

[trumad]

13. To what?

what part of that CNN story says he was released as part of a deal?

[slaveplanet]

14. this part

must be what they're basing that headline off of....Sgt. 1st Class Mark Forbes said an AK-47 assault rifle was lying in the grass near the house but that only women and children were in the home when troops arrived.

"We assessed from what he had told us that someone was watching him," Forbes said. "They probably saw us coming and decided that 40 on one wasn't going to be a good day for and walked off."

so that's the deal ...40 on 1 wasn't a good deal so they bolted

a quasi release

[krkaufman]

3. Linked story doesn't backup headline claim

I definitely can lean towards the claim, but won't buy it without confirmations from multiple sources.

[codegreen]

4. what a load of crap; no evidence in article to support headline at all

[radwriter0555]

7. THIS is the story to read very carefully....

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/South/05/02/cheering.hamill/

[codegreen]

9. that one doesn't say he was released instead of escaped either

[Iceburg]

6. They feed him cookies too!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=527612&mesg_id=527612

[myomy]

10. Wonder if he knows Jesseca?

..

[Mikimouse]

12. HE"S A HEEEEEEEYYYYYROOOOO!!!!!!

n/t

[AlCzervik]

15. I feel bad for this guy

He and his family have had a couple of really bad years and he was trying to pay off some big ass medical debts. His story should be used as an example of what the Bush economy or lack there of has driven people to do.

[Mikimouse]

16. Unfortunately, you and I both know that that isn't going to happen

while I am not at all unsympathetic to his plight, I just know that what I posted above is going to be reality, as far as the RW BS artists are concerned. I can just hear them now.

[AlCzervik]

17. ya i know

i'm just trying to think outside the box, another way of using this story for what is really represents instead of it being used as yet another photo-op for the squatter in chief.