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[mosttalkednews.com] The Berkeley Moonbats of Teheran | MostTalkedNews.com: The Berkeley Moonbats of Teheran Hostage Fame “From the very start, the only reason we have been held hostage is because we are American,” Not worth a million. Not even worth the price of meat....

[The Report Card] What American 'Political Prisoners'? An American hiker channels ...: Bauer said that he opposes “U.S. policies toward Iran which perpetuate this hostility”””as if American belligerence, and not Iranian tyranny and terror, causes tension between the countries. Though he criticized Tehran’s “brutality,”

[Berkeley] Freed UC Berkeley grads describe harrowing ordeal in Iran ...: The two countries severed diplomatic ties three decades ago during the hostage crisis, when American diplomats were held for 444 days at the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran after it was stormed in 1979 by militants backing .

[Pat Dollard] Iran Releases American 'Spies' (Read: Hostages) on 'Bail' (Read ...: Associated Press reporters saw a convoy of vehicles with Swiss and Omani diplomats leaving Evin prison Wednesday afternoon with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal inside, heading to an airport in the capital Tehran. Switzerland represents American interests in Iran because the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Tehran and the prisoners are expected to be flown to Oman now.

[The Atheist Conservative] The Atheist Conservative: » Three Islam groupies held hostage by Iran: The moral-equivalent rhetoric may have worked when Bauer was a peace and conflict studies major at the University of California, Berkeley, but one country ginned up phony espionage charges to use him and his companions as political pawns — that’s Iran —

[Europenews.dk] Stockholm Syndrome From Tehran | EuropeNews: The moral-equivalent rhetoric may have worked when Bauer was a peace and conflict studies major at the University of California, Berkeley, but one country ginned up phony espionage charges to use him and his companions as political pawns -- that's Iran -- and the other country doesn't imprison critics because of what they say or use violence to quell dissent.

[Sharif Behruz's Personal Blog] American Hostages Freed In Iran « Sharif Behruz's Personal Blog: For two years, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, have endured Iranian lock-ups, and their release is a blessing for themselves, their families, and notions of justice. Their freedom was cynically timed to coincide with a United Nations speech by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the better to suffuse him with a humanitarian glow.

[FrontPage Magazine] Tehran's American Hostages | FrontPage Magazine: That's the problem in the Mideast, the people are still fighting colonial power, which no longer exists, and Israel, established by a Western UN has become the surrogate. You should have fought against colonialism at the time, but you didn't, and now you're sacrificing your future to fight a battle that belongs to the past.

[Wintery Knight] Should America do anything to save left-wing hikers in Iran ...: Bauer should know that his ordeal at the hands of the Iranian government is but an echo of the crime that inaugurated the Islamic Republic itself””the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and the holding of our diplomats hostage for 444 days.

[ImNotHerzog] Can We Lock Them Up Here For Being Stupid? | ImNotHerzog: program at Berkeley and young men and women like Shane Bauer will be called to religious vocations in traditional monastic orders or missionary work rather than going off to Iraq to do whatever it was Mr. Bauer was up to over there (nothing positive I’m sure).

[The American Spectator and The Spectacle Blog] The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Hikers or Haters ...: Now, if Iran held Americans hostage (wait, didn't theyalready do this?), I'd say we ought to turn Teheran into a glowingcrater, but if the hostages were Lefties I wouldn't bother rescuingthem. Gotta know your enemy, and the Left is America's enemy.

[The PJ Tatler] The PJ Tatler » American Hostages Stay Locked Up in Tehran: Back in the eighties, a journalist from the New York Times asked me what he was missing in the Iran story.  I said to him that if he tried to find out what Iran had received for the release of American hostages, he’d probably learn a lot about the world.  Afterwards he told me that he wished he’d paid more attention.  So a few months ago, when I learned a bit more about our secret negotiations with the Iranians, I sent him an email suggesting he might pursue the same line of inquiry he’d ignored thirty years ago.  I never heard back.

[Your Daily Burner] Iran releases American 'spy' hikers after two years in prison « Your ...: Mr Bauer, Mr Fattal and a third American, Sarah Shourd - friends from their students days at the University of California at Berkeley - were detained in July 2009 when they were hiking at a narrow gorge in the mountains on Iraqi-Iranian border. The area, west of Halabja, is a well-known beauty spot where Kurdish families often picnic beside a fast-flowing mountain stream which comes from Iran a few miles away.

[EMMSY STUFF] EMMSY STUFF » Americans freed from prison leave Iran » EMMSY ...: Police vehicles escorted the convoy of Swiss and Omani vehicles, carrying the two Americans to Mehrabad airport, which was once Tehran’s main gateway to the world but is now used for domestic flights. The airport is near the massive Azadi Square, which Iran uses to hold military parades but also was a temporary hub for protesters after Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in 2009.

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