Written by: Beck
Remember the 4 Jordanians being held hostage by a group calling itself the "Death Group?" OK, I realize it's getting harder all the time to recall just who or what is being held hostage at any given time, what the demands are, what gruesome fates are threatened, and what groups are perpetrating the crime (and while I give Death Group points for a scary, to the point name, they lose major marks for lack of creativity).
Well, they're free now. One thing remains to be determined though.
CNN is reporting that they were freed after Iraqi tribal chiefs negotiated their release.
Four Jordanian workers taken hostage for five days in Iraq arrived in Jordan on Wednesday hours after being released by their captors, according to one of the hostage's brothers.
They were released Tuesday night after successful negotiations between two tribal chiefs in Falluja, according to Mohammad Abu Jaffar, whose brother Ahmed, 47, was one of the hostages.
Fox News, however, reports that they were freed after locals found out where the hostages were being kept, and fed up with the situation, raided the place themselves and sprung the captives loose.
Sheik Haj Ibrahim Jassam said he received word on Tuesday evening that the four Jordanians were being held in a house on the edge of the Fallujah.
"I called upon my brothers and tribesmen to free the hostages, so we raided the house last night," Jassam told The Associated Press.
He said the kidnappers fled the house and the four men were brought to his house unharmed.
I'm very curious to learn which story is accurate for one primary reason. If the citizens of Fallujah are rising up to thwart militant terrorists and kidnappers, then the situation in Iraq looks much better than the doomsday forecasters are claiming. Anyone heard anything conclusive on this story?
(Hat tip:
DGCI)