US soldier hostage? what now?

[maddogchen]

besides pray for the poor guy...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired footage Friday showing a 20-year-old U.S. soldier captured by insurgents, apparently unharmed and surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.


The soldier, wearing camouflage and a floppy desert hat, is shown sitting on the floor as he identifies himself.

"My name is Keith Matthew Maupin. I am a soldier from the 1st Division," he is heard saying in the video. "I am married with a 10-month-old child. I came to liberate Iraq (news - web sites), but I did not come willingly because I wanted to stay with my child."

Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, and another soldier, Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., were listed as missing after their convoy was attacked April 9 outside Baghdad, amid a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners. Both soldiers were assigned to the Army Reserve's 724th Transportation Company, based at Bartonville, Ill.

He is the second American and first U.S. serviceman known to be kidnapped by insurgents fighting the U.S.-led coalition since the end of war.

Maupin looked scared and glanced downward occasionally during the tape. The gunmen, their faces covered by keffiyeh scarves, stayed behind him, in contrast to footage aired on Al-Jazeera last week of three Japanese hostages in which their kidnappers held knives to their throats as they screamed. The Japanese, two aid workers and a journalist, were freed unharmed.

On the tape, one of the gunmen was heard saying: "We are keeping him to be exchanged for some of the prisoners captured by the occupation forces."

"Some of our groups managed to capture one of the American soldiers, and he is one of many others. He is being treated according to the treatment of prisoners in the Islamic religion and he is in good health," the gunman

 

[BDawg]

I'm gonna guess a special forces rescue.

 

[smashp]

the Captors are Claiming he is a "Prisoner of War"

 

[rufruf44]

Originally posted by: BDawg
I'm gonna guess a special forces rescue.

If they can find him first. An iraqi inform where the first one was.

 

[zillafurby]

Originally posted by: BDawg
I'm gonna guess a special forces rescue.

a rummy mission: guys go and search and torch every structure in felujeh, eh?, and when you find him grease all the people in the block, and if they have just killed him take his body back!

 

[wkabel23]

Hope he gets back home safe.

And I'd assume special forces will rescue him.

 

[maddogchen]

off you go. (kicks out Zillafurby)

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: wkabel23


Hope he gets back home safe.

And I'd assume special forces will rescue him.

So we just go and get him eh? Not that easy, not at all.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
off you go. (kicks out Zillafurby)

 

[maddogchen]

hmm... don't know if we'd be able to find him. usually info comes from a sympathetic Iraqi source, and they might not seem hold him in a place with many of those.

 

[SNC]

2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: SNC
2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

I believe anyone who wants to nuke a country ought to be free to do so. The only catch is the "button" is on the ceiling, and you have to amputate your legs and arms first. If you can do that, you get wheeled in on a cot, and you just press launch!

Pretty easy, and you certainly would be performing an extraordinary service. You will also have a taste for the damage to others you inflict.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: SNC
2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

-truly disguisting.

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: SNC
2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

Translation: Genocide is the answer.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: BDawg
I'm gonna guess a special forces rescue.

But not before they negotiate the book and made-for-tv movie deals.

 

[zillafurby]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
off you go. (kicks out Zillafurby)

off i go to your wife.

 

[zillafurby]

what a beotch

 

[zillafurby]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: SNC
2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

I believe anyone who wants to nuke a country ought to be free to do so. The only catch is the "button" is on the ceiling, and you have to amputate your legs and arms first. If you can do that, you get wheeled in on a cot, and you just press launch!

Pretty easy, and you certainly would be performing an extraordinary service. You will also have a taste for the damage to others you inflict.

yeay, american logic, really, erm, interesting...

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: zillafurby

Originally posted by: maddogchen
off you go. (kicks out Zillafurby)

off i go to your wife.

(maddogchen's wife/left hand lands squarely on Zillafurby's puckered up lips, knocking him out cold)
<nelson muntz voice>HA Ha</nelson muntz voice>:evil:

 

[Perknose]

Keeping the light on and the fire stoked for Pfc.Keith Matthew Maupin.

 

[SuperTool]

This is all a publicity stunt. Then again, if he wasn't useful to them for a publicity stunt, he would be dead already.

 

[CptObvious]

Originally posted by: SNC
2 words. Green glass.

Lets get this over with for good.

Yep, after all we went into Iraq with the pretenses of "liberating" the people...what better way than to nuke them all.

 

[SuperTool]

USA. Delivering freedom at gunpoint since 1776

 

[BarneyFife]

I guess they can call Disney so they can get the ball rolling on the movie. I can't wait to hear the "hero" story out of this one. I'm going to guess he was shooting until his bullets ran out.

 

[Whitecloak]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
USA. Delivering freedom at gunpoint since 1776