America's North Shore Journal

Notice the quote from the Iraqi soldiers. I would think the Americans also had the same thought. A senior security official in the Iraqi city of Suleymaniyeh, Qadr Hamajan, told Reuters news agency that the three US nationals and a fourth man arrived there on Wednesday. He said three of them travelled the following day to a the tourist resort of Ahmad Awa near the Iranian border. They went out hiking near Halabja. The fourth had been taken ill and stayed behind in a hotel in Suleymaniyeh. “They phoned their friend … and told him ‘we are in trouble and are being held by soldiers who are not speaking Kurdish or Arabic’,” Mr Hamajan said. An official in the region told the BBC that the Iraqi border guards saw three Americans with big backpacks crossing … Read entire article »