Good news.

Several Hostages Freed

A wave of hostages have been freed in Iraq in the last 24 hours.

They include two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq earlier this month and there are reports that an agreement has been reached to free two French journalists.

Two Iraqis who were captured with the Italian women have also been freed.

Link Via Laughing Wolf, who has been following this one. He promises more as it develops, so check his site.

3 Comments

  1. wits0
    Posted 28 Sep, 2004 at 23:08 | Permalink

    It would be surprising if they were not violated nevertheless.

  2. Bill Ewing
    Posted 29 Sep, 2004 at 04:04 | Permalink

    10 to 1 says that a “militant/freedom fighter” (read terrorist) leader had a 9MM to the back of his head which led to the release of the hostages.
    Any takers???
    Somebody over there is doing something right. one can only hope that the trigger was pulled after the release.

  3. wits0
    Posted 29 Sep, 2004 at 14:35 | Permalink

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040929/wl_nm/hostages_ransom_dc

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