I'm so sick of these staged hostage takings...

[RBHam]

What a joke. Wolf Blitzer manages to use the word "chilling" about 50 times with a straight face! The media can't really believe this crap can they?

Expect Paul Johnson to be rescued in a dramatic fashion with crack Saudi anti-terror units being praised for their brave action!

Wolfie had a Saudi ambassador on who admitted that the "Bush Administration is working very closely with the Saudi royal family in this matter..."

No doubt.

[The empressof all]

1. Unfortunely

I don't believe this is staged but yet again another result of Bush's failed policies. I hope I'm wrong-but it doesn't look too hopeful for this man.

[Warpy]

17. Agreed. The only thing they'll find released

will be the poor man's corpse.

The old king must be near death since all the anti-royal factions are getting so much bolder. All hell is going to break loose in that country when he finally dies.

I sincerely hope all "guest workers" are taking the only good advice to come out of Washington in ages: get out of Dodge.

[MallRat]

2. Gotta tell you... I don't think they're staged.

:-(

[Stew225]

6. I used to like Wolf when Turner owned

CNN but he's obviously sold out. By the way, what the hell kind of parent names his son Wolf? And if that's not the case, what kind of TV personality uses the air name of Wolf?

[tom_paine]

13. A Nazi. It goes so nicely with his Last Reichsnammen "Blitzer"

The Nazi Wolf is loose...

Yes it is, and the Nazi Wolf lies.

[physioex]

8. I am more curious...

As to why people like this guy and Berg hang around places where they are not welcome...

[physioex]

9. I agree with you...

But keep an open mind. The first casualty of war is the truth....

[izzie]

3. Sounds like they do not know what to say.

Maybe they can get these men back faster than the children taken into that country?

[I thought so.]

4. Me too.

no TV. Lucky me.

[Bluebear]

5. I am with you on "chilling" though, everything is "chilling" nowadays

But I don't think they are staged, I think Bush has destabilized the whole region.

[Insider]

7. sick of four STAGED years

that's really chilling, wolf.

[mopaul]

10. all are highly suspicious

so we never know exactly if they are real or not.
i noticed the masked man has the bullet proof vest looking thing the men in the berg beheading video wore.

who knows, i certainly don't. but they look like cheap phonies to me. your escape scenario is plausible.

[Hoping4Change]

11. I never thought about about it being staged however I've

wondered recently why vidoes haven't been released showing the victimm being tortured as they said they would do. I hope to god it is staged.

[Piperay]

12. I think they're real

which just shows how chimp has lost total control of the Middle East situation. :-(

[Liberal Classic]

14. I'm sick of them too

Oh, wait. I missed where you said the word "staged".

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/15/saudi.tape/index.html

Some how I do not think we are sick of the same things.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7ADCD736-4180-4DF3-9198-FE953342604A.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4182478,00.html

Yeah. It's all staged. Everything you know is wrong.

[TX-RAT]

15. I don't think its a joke

[RBHam]

16. Come on. The Halliburton driver in Iraq who escaped?

Give me a break, that was a set up the whole way. Who held him? What did they demand? They just happened to leave him unguarded and untied as a US military convoy passed by his hut out in the desert? The way the media pushed the religion angle and his hometown awaiting the "miracle"...

I firmly believe that the CIA is using certain staged events to push the War Of Terror agenda - Johnny Walker "Red" Lindh being one of the first.

And don't even get me started on the Nick Berg beheading. The timing was amazing, eh? Right after the abuse story leaked out? How long did they have it in the can? How come these hardened terrorists haven't beheaded any of the many other hostages held in Iraq?

This Paul Johnson thing stinks. I can sense it in my bones.

The whole recent terror spree in Saudi Arabia seems controlled and managed - how come Al Qaeda doesn't target any of the thousands of Royal family members walking around unprotected?

[LibertyorDeath]

18. Hostage takings?

You mean American detainees

[RBHam]

19. Paula Zahn rolled out the epithet "chilling" about the video

Look, we're sick of the "chilling" thing. You're overplaying your hand.

Morons.

[merh]

20. IMHO the hostage takings are real, I am tired of the staged terrorist

arrests. That guy in Ohio, the alleged mall bomber that Ashey told us about yesterday in his CYA press conference, was arrested in November - 8 months ago and they are just now unsealing the indictment and informing the public. Give me a break!

How many more arrestees (detainees?) are being held only to be "charged" in the next several months, to try to hide the stench of this administration????

[RBHam]

22. Not ALL the hostage takings are staged...

Just a select few, the Halliburton truck driver, Nick Berg and this Paul Johnson...

Just a feeling I have...

[merh]

24. Hostage takings harm corporate interests . . .

Thus, "staged" hostage takings would be contrary to the true reason for this war "GREED". Corporations have to shut down their offices, have to pay employees more to be in the region, have to find employees willing to be in the area. No, "staged" hostage takings would be too costly to the corporate interests, thus to the admin.

[rumguy]

21. they are more than likely real and Bush is to blame

and the media is to blame for coddling Bush and his lies and helping him sow fear and doubt...

[theboss]

23. So, no one has been kidnapped?

I don't follow.

[RBHam]

25. see post 22

some seem to be staged for political purposes...

[Bluebear]

26. Where are these mysterious "websites" anyhow?

I could care less about viewing the videos but it's sure a damn mystery.