Well, it has been something of an embarassment for the Pope to be condemning the war in Iraq. Maybe he needed convincing.The Vatican has confirmed the kidnapping by armed gunmen of 66 year-old Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa on Monday in the northern Mosul region of Iraq.[...]
“The neocons say negotiations are a bad deal,” a senior official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) told me. “And the only thing the Iranians understand is pressure. And that they also need to be whacked.”
Halifax Live article
Update 1/18/05: The archbishop has been released.
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