Sunday, March 18, 2012

Ex-US Soldier Released from Shia Custody

Followers of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have freed a US former soldier after holding him captive in Baghdad for nine months.

The American, identified as Randy Michaels, was shown on television in a US military uniform with no insignia, flanked by two members of parliament from Sadr's movement, including the first deputy speaker.

The politicians described him as an American soldier, but Michaels said he was a former service member working in a civilian capacity at the time he was captured, last June.

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"I was taken inside Baghdad and have been kept in and around different locations within the city by al-Maoud. It was explained to me that my release has been for humanitarian purposes and there was no exchange involved," he said in remarks shown on Iraq's Bagdadiya television.

  UK Guardian
What? They didn't torture or piss on him? Surely you can't believe that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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