BREAKING NEWS: Islamic militants view the U.S. occupation of Muslim territory as a recruiting tool:
French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election.
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One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush’s re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday’s edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.
“We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop,” Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.
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Another captor, who described himself as the group’s head of internal intelligence, told the men that the Islamic Army has four enemies: American and coalition troops, “their collaborators, that is to say Italian businessmen, or even French,” as well Iraqi police and spies.
I’m shocked to read this. Who could have ever imagined that some people don’t like foreign armies occupying their country?