In article <vlm4q0phsi8lecvgdcf92dpqdpdfvl6v6g@4ax.com>,
activated_95b@earthlink.net (remove underscore) wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:24:12 GMT, §K¥ Wå£K€®
<askywlkr@behindenemylines.org> wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:56:56 +0300, Colin Campbell
<activated95b@earthlink.net (remove underscore)> wrote:

Excuse me? Can you support your claim that we considered he an
'insurgent?'

1. Magaret Hassan was a strong critic of the United State's invasion
of Iraq in 2003, arguing that Iraqis had already suffered enough.

When she was kidnapped she was head of Iraqi operations for CARE --
meaning basically that she was a well known friend of the Iraqis.

Her kidnappers did not issue any specific demands. This is quite
unlike most of the other kidnappings of westerners, where specific
demands and deals were attempted to be established. These kidnappers
simply wanted the world to see how evil they were in front of the
cameras.

In this case you fail to recognize that you are not the intended
audience. The people they are sending the message to is their own
people - not ours.

It's useful to compare this to the Viet Cong "armed propaganda" teams,
which intimidated the general population from cooperating with the
government by especially gory execution of village leaders, teachers,
etc. A fairly classic pattern in guerilla warfare, urban or jungle, is
to demonstrate that the central government cannot protect its
supporters. Such demonstrations often take the form of deliberately
publicized atrocities. This has been the case in any number of
insurgencies, on the RIght or on the Left. Consider, for example, Latin
American death squads.