A closer look

Four pacifists visiting Iraq were captured by terrorists a few days ago. The terrorists demands were released today. From The Scotsman:

Terrorists: Free all prisoners or we will execute hostages
Al-Jazerra television broadcast a new videotape last night in which kidnappers of four Christian peace activists, including one Briton, threatened to kill their hostages unless all prisoners in US and Iraqi detention centres are released.

The kidnappers gave the two governments until next Thursday to meet their demands.

"all prisoners in US and Iraqi detention centres are released" -- like that is going to happen anytime soon... I feel really sorry for these people but they knew the risks going over there. The terrorists are not sane by any sense of the word and the idea that as pacifists and "friends of the terrorists", they would somehow be shielded from terror is an inane fallacy. As Sir Banagor would put it, these are Really Fucking Stupid People. But -- those pig-loving sons of monkeys who captured the pacifists are making an incredible blunder themselves. If they realized the propaganda value of who they had in captivity, they could give these people a real dog and pony show of the "poor downtrodden masses who just want to get on with life and who want George Bush gone" and these four would come back as powerful allies of the terrorists. Now, if they are murdered, it may, just may, spark an awakening in some of the lefties and get them to realize just who it is that they crawled into bed with and how foul that culture is.