Hillarys Hostage Crisis Ends

The hostage crisis ended without bloodshed, and the stories coming out reveal that Mr. Eisenberg was having troubles before the hostage taking.

Leeland Eisenberg was already in trouble before he walked into one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices. Three days earlier, his wife had filed for divorce; he was due to appear in court with her for a domestic violence hearing in about half an hour.

Police say Eisenberg went to the office Friday demanding to talk to Clinton about helping him get mental health care and ended up taking at least five people, including an infant, hostage. Night would fall before the last one walked free and the hostage-taker peacefully surrendered.

It is good that things turned out well, as many times we have seen that bloodshed, i.e. murder and suicide, is the way that these hostage crises end up. Congratulations to the state police negotiator, and the Rochester police department for their professionalism, and the good outcome!


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Hostages In Hillarys Office

This has been a day of hostage holding, first I was held hostage all day by Panera's lack of wifi signal, and then a deranged man (Not Rush Limbaugh), wearing what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday, took several hostages and demanded to speak to the candidate, authorities said.


The man released at least three hostages as the afternoon wore on, but nearly four hours after the standoff began, police said they were still dealing with a hostage situation and the man had not been taken into custody.

The story indicates that the suspect was an older man known around the town to be mentally unstable, the law enforcement official told the AP. He walked into the campaign office and opened his jacket, revealing what appeared to be a pipe bomb.

The law enforcement official confirmed the name of the man as Leeland Eisenberg and said Eisenberg demanded to speak with Clinton. But authorities did not know what Leeland wanted to talk to Clinton about.

It is a hopeful sign that he released three hostages, but law enforcement said that the hostage situation has not been concluded, but he is confident that he has the resources to end the crisis successfully. Our hopes are the same, and good luck!!


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Korean Hostages Given 24 Hours

In a very tense situation the Koreans being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been given 24 more hours to be tortured by being allowed to live a little while longer. They must be mortified over their ultimate fate; which will be Death! This is sad for them and their families, but should be a stark reminder of who we are dealing with!

Afghan elders leading the hostage negotiations met with the kidnappers and reported that the Koreans were healthy, said Khwaja Mohammad Sidiqi, the police chief of Qarabagh district in Ghazni district, where the Koreans were kidnapped Thursday.


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Missing Hostages May Be Dead

It was another bloody weekend in Iraq as 14 more United States troops were killed while performing cordon and search operations near of Baghdad.
This is an area near where our troops were attacked and three not killed on scene were taken by the terrorists. One soldier was later found dead during the search, but the other two are still missing.
On Monday, a faction of al-Qaeda called the Islamic State of Iraq, released a video in which they say that its' militants killed all three United States soldiers after capturing them last month.
The video shows footage of the nighttime attack on our troops and the aftermath, but does not show the three soldiers taken hostage, so there is still a possibility that the two who have not been found are still alive.
In addition, a website associated with the terrorists claims that it will release videos of the murdered soldiers in the near future.
The body of one of the soldiers was found on May 23 in the Euphrates River and later identified by the United States military as Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, California. The two other United States soldiers, Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusettes and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Michigan, remain missing.
The deaths this weekend raised to at least 3,493 members of the United States military who have died since the war started in March of 2003.
I think there is probably little hope of finding these young men alive and if they are imagine how much torture they are being put through. After all it was just over a week ago that our troops rescued Iraqi's who were being held and tortured by their al-Qaeda captors.
Their techniques are brutal and meant to inflict pain upon the recipient, so I fear for our two troops and what they are going through if they are still alive.
May the troops be found soon, dead or alive, so at least their families will know what happened to them, and be happy if they are alive and mourn if they are not.
The number of insurgents/terrorists continue to grow as everyone runs to Iraq to "kill" Americans, I hope that we have enough troops to keep up the fight and perhaps wear their numbers down before we leave, so fewer will want to come here and finish the job of "killing" Americans.
To our troops in harm's way, throughout the world, please be safe and godspeed!
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