Thank you, Manila

Six more hostages have been taken due to the terrorists being emboldened by their success in driving the Philippines from Iraq.

Thank you, Manila, for confirming Washington's fears.

They're kidnapping citizens from noncombatant countries and demanding they withdraw their troops from Iraq, even though those nations do not have troops in Iraq.

This tells me they are grabbing any non-Iraqi that they can find, regardless of nationality.

Kenya is trying to free its own hostages, but they have been unsuccessful so far.   If Kenya wants to knuckle under to free their hostages, then they have learned nothing from al-Qaeda atttacks in their country.  Have they forgotten the bombings in Nairobi, which leveled the targeted U.S. embassy and killed hundreds of Kenyans and wounded thousands?

This is kind of like Spain sweeping the March 11th terrorist attacks on Madrid under the carpet and trying to forget about it.  The victims won't stand for it.