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Passport Saved Canadian Hostage

Posted on Friday, March 17 at 09:34 by Anonymous
"When they were certain I was Canadian, they were very disappointed. Then, they told me, 'We love Canada.' That's wonderful to hear when you have guns pointed at you," an exhausted Mr. Budzanowski said yesterday in a telephone interview shortly after he was released after almost 30 hours as a hostage. "It's wonderful to have a Canadian passport because it changes people's minds. One of the guards kept asking me to say hello to Canada, so it does stand for something." His former captors had taken a liking to him toward the end of the hostage-taking and one — the one who kept asking him to say hello to Canada — even gave him a phone number to call if he ever needed the help of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "I don't intend to use it, but I believe he meant it," Mr. Budzanowski said with a chuckle. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060316.wxhostage16/BNStory/International/

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  1. by 4Canada
    Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:04 am
    Paul Martin and Stephen Harper have and are going to make sure this doesn't happen again. Cut the aid. Kill the Afghans. We gotta stay on the rightt side of our biggest conshummers.

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  2. by boflaade
    Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:29 am
    Canadians will soon be put on the same pedestal as the Americans, as targets. We'll soon have the same ruthless and self-centered image. Canada is not safe anymore.

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  3. by Commonsense101
    Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:29 pm
    Yep, that's absolutely right. I also dread the day when I wake up and realize I've done something to anger terrorists, and certainly hope our leaders can keep our agenda close enough to theirs to keep them happy with us, I mean so long as I remain in the shadows nothing will eventually happen, right? Just because we don't stand up now, surely doesn't mean there won’t be scores of countries ready to stand up when we're targeted by them.

  4. by The Saint
    Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:02 pm
    Canadians are also in danger in having our homeland becoming a base for the funding and plotting of warring factions in over seas conflicts. Not only does Canada import foreign cultures but we import foreign wars. Take the Air Indian bombing for example. Toronto is a major centre for fund raising for the terrorist group LTTE. An Arab living in Ottawa was arrested with plotting to kill British citizens.<br />
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    <a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142981411976&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home">http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142981411976&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home</a><br />
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    It is a real possibility that foreign wars will be fought on Canadian soil with Canadians caught in the middle. In a sense this is already happening. Canadians may find themselves targeted to force the Canadian government to deal with the actions of foreign groups living and operating in Canada as well as Canada being an ally of the U.S. and a western nation.



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