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American Captured In Iraq. Who's To Blame? by Phyllis Chesler Pajamas Media February 7, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/694/american-captured-in-iraq Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: Western civilians–a journalist (Daniel Pearl), a businessman (Nicholas Berg), a civil engineer (Kenneth Bigley), and an aid worker (Margaret Hassan)–have been captured, beheaded, and shot in Pakistan and Iraq. Western troops have also been captured, tortured, and barbarically slaughtered. The mindset that American troops face is very different from our own. For example, if a Muslim jihadist wants to kill someone, he might stage an elaborate ruse and kill someone else entirely—all in order to have people say that his primary target was killed by accident. Or, he might kidnap a high value civilian as a bargaining chip in order to free other, imprisoned jihadists. With this in mind—let's try to understand what is now going on in Iraq in the matter of the captured American. First, you can't necessarily trust the mainstream media to get the facts exactly right. Read the complete original version of this item...
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