From the Mailbag

Rusty Shackleford has posted part 1 of a 4 part interview with the family of Roy Hallums, a civilian contractor abducted in Iraq last November and held hostage since.

Roy was taken hostage along with six other foreign nationals, including a Fillipino named Robert Tarongoy. The U.S. did not publish the fact that an American citizen had been taken hostage because of a policy of treating civilian abductions as purely private matters. The Jawa Report was the first publication to identify Roy Hallums as the hostage.

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