Canadian writer caught in hostage ordeal ... now freed

[Iceburg]

http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=a7bd9e37-ea9d-4f65-8638-018793bc3376

September 13, 2004

Veteran Canadian war correspondent, author and magazine publisher Scott Taylor has survived a horror-filled, brush-with-death kidnapping in Iraq by Muslim terrorists who came within a hair of beheading him.
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The captives were passed along to another safe house and a new set of interrogators. "These guys, with the usual hoods, were really rough," said Taylor. "Here I am with no ID and an eagle tattoo on my arm, in a basement with 30 or 40 mujahedeen, it's 40 degrees and we're choking on dust. And there's a woman with several sons herself who's cooking for them and telling them to go out and die like their brothers."
... more
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=a7bd9e37-ea9d-4f65-8638-018793bc3376
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Note to self: Northern Iraq out of control, eagle tattoos -- bad

[Maple]

1. Wow, yes!

If I ever get a tattoo, I'll make sure it's a maple leaf, not an eagle.

VERY close call.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. nothing says "let me go, please" like a beaver tattoo

[Iceburg]

3. Now that's funny!!!! minstrel

Never leave home without it!