Was Scott Taylor Really Abducted?
Scott Taylor, a Canadian who writes propaganda for al Jazeera, claimed last year to have been abducted by members of Ansar-al-Islam, then released five days later.
It's strange that not only did Ansar-al-Islam release Taylor, but they made no demands for his release and did not videotape or photograph him. I don't recall a similar hostage drama with so little corroboration. Could this case be like that of the US Marine who faked his own abduction?
In a story by the Associated Press on September 30th, 2004, it was stated that no group has claimed responsibility for kidnapping Taylor and his companion. Yet in a September 22nd interview Taylor claimed that Ansar al-Islam were his captors.
The veracity of the entire story rides on the word of Scott Taylor and his companion. I hesitate to take the word of a man who equates terrorists with Davy Crockett, or that of his traveling companion and possible accomplice, both of whom stood to profit from the publicity surrounding the supposed abduction.
Update: Reynald Doiron of Canada's Foreign Affairs department had this to say about the alleged abduction: "We won't comment, deny, endorse, do anything due to that no Canadian official was witness to the events he said he went through in northern Iraq." - (MSNBC.COM)
That's a lot of words just to say, "No comment".
Iraq
It's strange that not only did Ansar-al-Islam release Taylor, but they made no demands for his release and did not videotape or photograph him. I don't recall a similar hostage drama with so little corroboration. Could this case be like that of the US Marine who faked his own abduction?
In a story by the Associated Press on September 30th, 2004, it was stated that no group has claimed responsibility for kidnapping Taylor and his companion. Yet in a September 22nd interview Taylor claimed that Ansar al-Islam were his captors.
The veracity of the entire story rides on the word of Scott Taylor and his companion. I hesitate to take the word of a man who equates terrorists with Davy Crockett, or that of his traveling companion and possible accomplice, both of whom stood to profit from the publicity surrounding the supposed abduction.
Update: Reynald Doiron of Canada's Foreign Affairs department had this to say about the alleged abduction: "We won't comment, deny, endorse, do anything due to that no Canadian official was witness to the events he said he went through in northern Iraq." - (MSNBC.COM)
That's a lot of words just to say, "No comment".
Iraq
posted by Bluto at 12:36 PM
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