Seized And Detained Or Kidnapped And Taken Hostage?
The BBC reporetd on Thursday, 11 January 2007, that [1]:
US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident.
Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees.
Now, why hasn' the U.S. government and the mainstream media described this action as a "kidnapping" and a "hostage" situation?
Like in the following cases:
1. The U.S. and Israeli governments, and their mainstream media lapdogs, consistently regurgitated that Hizbullah fighters "kidnapped" Israeli soldiers (as if they were peaceful and unarmed school children)?
2. Or when the Israeli soldier was captured by Hamas.
3. Or, as in the case of the Iranian's taken U.S. diplomatic staff "hostage" during the Carter administration?
Note: In the above cases, what was Israel's response to the capture of it's soldiers in Plaestine and Lebanon? Didn't it launch to wars which destroyed the infrastructures of Gaza and Lebanon? How many hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians have died in response to those soldiers being captured in legitimate military operations?
And what was the United States' response to its hostage crisis? Didn't it impose sanctions on Iran, attempt rescue operations, and that very act soured the diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S., for decades?
Does Iran have any right to respond as it sees fit, also?
U.S. occupation forces stormed an Iranian diplomatic mission, "kidnapped" some of it's employees, which Irain has stated numerous times, that they enjoyed diplomatic immunity, then taken "hostage".
The BBC reported today (here: BBC Thursday, January 18, 2007), that:
Iran has accused the US of kidnapping five of its citizens who were arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.
"Iran's ambassador to Iraq called last week's arrests a violation on of Iraqi sovereignty and an insult to the Iraqi people". He demanded the men's release.
He said the "kidnapped" men were diplomats engaged in legitimate tasks.
"These actions are against international conventions which guarantee diplomatic immunity and they are also against the framework of the agreement between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mr Qomi told the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad.
...the US disagreed, saying it had no official diplomatic immunity, and nor did the men.
Do you see the government and it's subservient U.S. mainstream media's propaganda play in action?
Do you see the hypocrisy and double standards?
Just sit back and watch how these two powerful words: "Kidnapping" and "Hostages" will be automatically dropped from the mainstream media's demonizing arsenal of acidic vocabulry.
They'll be conveniently awoken from the self-induced hibernation, when the appropriate time arrives to launch a new barrage of negative images, in their effort to demonize everyone and everything associated with Islam, in their ongoing crusade against the Muslim World, the so-called: "Long War".
Source:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6251167.stm
The BBC reporetd on Thursday, 11 January 2007, that [1]:
US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident.
Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees.
Now, why hasn' the U.S. government and the mainstream media described this action as a "kidnapping" and a "hostage" situation?
Like in the following cases:
1. The U.S. and Israeli governments, and their mainstream media lapdogs, consistently regurgitated that Hizbullah fighters "kidnapped" Israeli soldiers (as if they were peaceful and unarmed school children)?
2. Or when the Israeli soldier was captured by Hamas.
3. Or, as in the case of the Iranian's taken U.S. diplomatic staff "hostage" during the Carter administration?
Note: In the above cases, what was Israel's response to the capture of it's soldiers in Plaestine and Lebanon? Didn't it launch to wars which destroyed the infrastructures of Gaza and Lebanon? How many hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians have died in response to those soldiers being captured in legitimate military operations?
And what was the United States' response to its hostage crisis? Didn't it impose sanctions on Iran, attempt rescue operations, and that very act soured the diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S., for decades?
Does Iran have any right to respond as it sees fit, also?
U.S. occupation forces stormed an Iranian diplomatic mission, "kidnapped" some of it's employees, which Irain has stated numerous times, that they enjoyed diplomatic immunity, then taken "hostage".
The BBC reported today (here: BBC Thursday, January 18, 2007), that:
Iran has accused the US of kidnapping five of its citizens who were arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.
"Iran's ambassador to Iraq called last week's arrests a violation on of Iraqi sovereignty and an insult to the Iraqi people". He demanded the men's release.
He said the "kidnapped" men were diplomats engaged in legitimate tasks.
"These actions are against international conventions which guarantee diplomatic immunity and they are also against the framework of the agreement between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mr Qomi told the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad.
...the US disagreed, saying it had no official diplomatic immunity, and nor did the men.
Do you see the government and it's subservient U.S. mainstream media's propaganda play in action?
Do you see the hypocrisy and double standards?
Just sit back and watch how these two powerful words: "Kidnapping" and "Hostages" will be automatically dropped from the mainstream media's demonizing arsenal of acidic vocabulry.
They'll be conveniently awoken from the self-induced hibernation, when the appropriate time arrives to launch a new barrage of negative images, in their effort to demonize everyone and everything associated with Islam, in their ongoing crusade against the Muslim World, the so-called: "Long War".
Source:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6251167.stm
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