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Word of the kidnapping spread quickly among U.S. soldiers around Baghdad Monday night. Even pilots in the air heard about the disappearance soon after. I first learned of the abduction from a Blackhawk crewman, who shouted the news into my ear amid the roar of the helicopter's rotors...
...Details remained sketchy through the night and into the morning. Official statements from the U.S. military in Baghdad said only that a U.S. soldier, whose name was not released, disappeared about 7:30 p.m. in central Baghdad, outside the Green Zone. Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a spokesman for the infantry division in charge of Baghdad security, said a Baghdad resident called one of the military's tip lines saying kidnappers grabbed the soldier. Withington said the search was ongoing but offered no further information...
...Back at Camp Taji, a huge military base north of Baghdad that fields city patrols, commanders gathered around midnight to discuss the situation and await orders on how to join the search effort...
...anyway, because Jesus was born 2,004 years ago. They celebrated because the most famous odometer mankind has ever created was displaying three zeroes in a row. It's exciting enough when it happens to your own car; when it happens to the world, it makes you downright giddy. Baghdad April 21, 2003 Ali [Ismail Abbas] recounted how one night, just after midnight, a missile dropped from the sky onto the home where he and his mother, stepfather, brother and six sisters were sleeping. "The house collapsed," he says. "My mother was dead, my stepfather was dead, my brother, dead...
...Saddam Hussein in jail, on trial, than in power. Right next door today in Iran you've got Mr. Ahmadinejad off and running trying to develop nuclear weapons. The only thing that would be more volatile is if you also had Saddam Hussein trying to develop nuclear weapons in Baghdad. Establishing a democratic government, getting rid of the old regime, closing down a major state sponsor of terror, shutting off Saddam Hussein's practice of making payments to the families of suicide bombers--we've done good work to get this far. We've got more...