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Freed captive Douglas Wood has offended the nice folks who kidnapped him, kicked him, and threatened to kill him:

Douglas Wood could be killed if he returned to Iraq after calling his captors “arseholes”, a spokesman for the Mufti of Australia said.

Mr Wood, 63, arrived in Australia on Monday after spending 47 days as a hostage in the war-torn country, but has indicated he may go back for business reasons.

But Keysar Trad, a spokesman for Australian Mufti Sheikh Taj Aldin Alhilali, said he would be very afraid for Mr Wood’s life if he returned to Iraq.

“I would be very concerned for his safety, especially after the comments that he’s made yesterday with the negative references he’s made to the people who were holding him,” Mr Trad told the Nine Network.

“If you compare that with other hostages who have been freed, you’d find that they actually came out and stated that they well looked after, they were fed,” he said.

Ungrateful Douglas, not thanking his potential murderers. We Geelong College students generally display better manners towards those who would bind us and point guns at our heads.

But the mufti is now most concerned for the two Iraqis Mr Wood was kidnapped with and who remain in captivity.

So go back to Iraq and negotiate, Mufti. You’re the expert.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/21/2005 at 01:05 PM

  1. Did the mufti ask Nick Berg how he was treated?

    Posted by Bob in Feenicks on 2005 06 21 at 02:20 PM • permalink

  2. Maybe psychologists could call Wood’s John Bolton moment the Geelong Syndrome.

    Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2005 06 21 at 02:30 PM • permalink

  3. What’s ‘chutzpah’ in Arabic?

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 06 21 at 03:03 PM • permalink

  4. Ungrateful Douglas, not thanking his hostages.

    Ahem. :)

    Posted by PW on 2005 06 21 at 03:34 PM • permalink

  5. Did the mufti ask Nick Berg how he was treated?

    Or Matt Maupin?

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 06 21 at 03:34 PM • permalink

  6. “Hostages” fixed, PW. Much thanks for the alert.

    Posted by Tim B. on 2005 06 21 at 04:19 PM • permalink

  7. Didn’t I read some while back, around about when Mamdouh Habib sacked his lawyer, that Keysar Trad had been sacked as the mouthpiece of the mufti?
    If the mufti is NOT representative of Moslems resident in Australia maybe Moslems should say so. Although I think that many of them are brainwashed to accept whatever a mufti says as, er, gospel.

    Posted by kae on 2005 06 21 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  8. Trad falls out with Mufti

    Ahh, google, my friend!

    Posted by kae on 2005 06 21 at 06:42 PM • permalink

  9. I doubt Arabs have a word that is the equivalent of “chutzpah.” But I’ll bet you they have a lot of words for “backstabbing,” “slander,” “libel,” “whining,” “passive-aggressiveness,” “self-regard,” “egotism,” and “paranoia.”

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 21 at 07:15 PM • permalink

  10. I wonder how safe that shitbag mullah will be in Australia?

    Drown the prick in pigs blood.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 06 21 at 08:07 PM • permalink

  11. When is Sgrena going to do her Donald Woods interview?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 21 at 09:30 PM • permalink

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