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One British and two Canadian peace activists held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in an operation by multinational forces.

The Ministry of Defence said UK troops had played a "prominent role".

Good to see them released after the American worker who was with them was executed earlier this month. Good to see troops taking action in these situations aswell.

The 'general assumption' seems to be UKSF. John Ried has just said it was spearheaded by UK Troops.

About time too.
Bollocks to negotiation with these animals. Far more offensive stance is required.
I still remember Ken Bigley and the weeks he endured before they murdered him. His old mum died of a broken heart some weeks later, God Bless the pair of them.


And if I ever meet Billy Connolly I`ll show him what I think of his "humour"

Couldnt agree with you more HH. A definate more offensive stance is required, these animals think they can get away with what they want because so far they have been able to grab governments by the balls over these matters, kidnap who they want and nothing happens and they end up getting away with murder.

Just a shame they couldnt have acted sooner!!

HH and N ,
Of course you are correct .the trouble the people who have to be dealt with are not interested with the consquences of our or their actions.

They are an Alien culture which will continue to crop up in any volatile situation such as Iraq.

The forces involved in his rescue are the best and can be relied on to sort these problems out if at all possible.

The sad fact is that the latest hostages and similar minded should not have been there.They are not helpul and distract the coalition forces from the job in hand.

Officials have revealed few details of the operation, but it is known that none of the captors was present, no shots were fired and no-one was injured.

Hmmm. If accurate, did someone get paid? Or is there nothing unusual..?

They were all down the post office getting their social cheque

They came back and one insurgent was rumoured to say......

"bollocks"

Apparantly most of B squadron were in on the rescue. Before cutting his chains Id have said "Ahh Mr Keeble I presume, now what is this we hear about us murdering illegal military types who shouldnt be in Iraq?"

But I aint in B sqn ................so wont.

Channel 4 news reported that Para's and RM's were in the loop, but you know the media, they don't know what they're on about most the time, channel 4 especially.

Good job whatever the crack was.

The gentleman in question whilst politically correct in his thanks, made no direct reference to his rescuers, I wonder what he really thought, gushing thanks doesnt spring to mind.

His thoughts were probably for his family and I am glad he is home as well as are the other two Canadians. But I can't help feeling that he should had thought that in the first place before stepping over there and signing that stupid piece of paper. Probably one of the few reasons that he does not 'feel ready' to talk about the situation because he has to own up that he really needed the military help and has to kill off one of his silly beliefs.

Pity his experience doesn't show those in his Christian group to keep their asses at home.

Myss, are you connected either personally to kember, or his way of thinking, an unusual post to make so early on, maybe you are trawling military forums to gague reaction, maybe wrong, just a thought.

Eh? Dogwatch, the man was agreeing with you, wind it in...

As for the Christian group...they were making a big deal of the fact that the hostages were willing to die for their beliefs. Well, the nutcases who captured them & the nutcases who blow themselves up every day are willing to die for their beliefs also, we clearly need more people like that!

I'll take the rescuers, who were willing to die for their duty to some w@#k they've never met before, over the 'belief' crowd any day.

Not my first post - I was a regular(-ish) poster some time before but was put off by another member (who it seems now has become a moderator on here) and I am suddenly on an emailing list, so I came back to have a look. I only realised the 'new member' status after I made the above post. I don't force anyone to comment but as it seems, we are both reading off the same page.

The only way I would like to be connected to Kember is by way of my hand slapping the back of his head, or the better way - by teaching him some manner and home truths.
It just makes my blood boil when people are so bloody ungrateful - especially for a task like this that only does favour for the man himself. For his group to be so uneducated in something they think they have specialised knowledge of, to put himself in such a place for that reason, and to cause such work, worry and stress to other people is just plain ignorant. These resources are needed elsewhere for more intricate ops than saving some bleary old men, he and his group should be bloody grateful not sending some other crazed bint to take his place.

Rant over

Cheers Sarastro (I wonder where you got that name from ) for the comment - although I am all female hence the name .

who's this moderator then and how come he upset you?

what was your original name used here?

Hope its me, could do with being accountable for something today