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September 10th, 2010
04:06 PM ET
Release of U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd 'canceled,' Iran says
Iran's semi-official news agency ILNA reported Friday that the release
of American hiker Sarah Shourd has been "canceled," because legal procedures have not been completed.
Shourd, one of three American hikers held in Iran for more than a year,
was supposed to be released Saturday.
She, along with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were detained July 31, 2009, after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
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why the F where they hiking over by iran anyway .... unreal how dumb people are
I totally agree!... Hiking on the boarder of a country in war next to a country with a lunatic in charge....
Can you say CIA ?
Why don't we send an ex prez over to get them out. Seems to work for N. Korea detainees
Well at least they didn't tie this to the idiot burning qurans down in Florida.......Vietnam used to like doing crap like this just to cheese American officials.......Get used to it....
I called it the moment I saw the original story. I said to myself there was no way they were going to release her. These people are as predictable as the sunrise.
It was a common form of torture during VietNam to tell a POW they were going to be released... they'd be taken from their cells, cleaned up, and escorted to a supposed drop point, only to be turned around at the last second and brought back to be beaten and returned to their cells.
Send in the drones
Looks like another proud day for the Islamic Rebublic, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
um...does anyone agree that only a complete idiot goes hiking anywhere near IRAN??? HELLOOOOOO.
not very smart at all. i do hope they get released though. id say they have been punished enough.
Can't blame them, they are likely hipsters or "eco tourists" who wanted to be both hip/edgy by hiking in a warzeone next to a hostile nation.
I'll go one further. I bet these young adults, certainly nowhere near kid age, 31? thought they were just 'groovin' . Dollars to donuts they're hippy types who thought more of Iran then America to begin with. I bet they're growing up now.
Guess this is what happens if you want to be "edgy" by hiking in Iraq near Iran.
It may be a blessing they canceled it. I had a terrible feeling they were not actually going to release her, but were going to execute her instead (perhaps in retaliation of the Quran burning)
Iran wont execute american hikers. Regardless as how the media and american extremists portray them as an "insane" government with "scary" leaders they are not really like that. They are a standard dictatorship, North Korea with an actual weird and insane government didn't even execute their american hostages.
Terribly disappointing, but not surprising. Still not sure why these knuckleheads were backpacking in Iraq on the Iranian border. Will their next trip be sky diving in North Korea? Dumb...no good reason for doing this whatsoever. Maybe they were spying? I mean, really, any reasonable Iranian would think that because no American could possibly be stupid enough to be there for recreational purposes. Upon release, I wonder if this woman was planning a nice jog in a thunderstorm with a copper suit on?
This is suprising to who?
Its very typical of how Iran operates. We'll never know if promises were made to them in return and didn't pan out but Iran likes to look like they're in charge, that no one can push them around. Looks like they're holding out for some kind of concession or "payoff" to me. I certainly don't discount the mess being created by Reverend Jones and the opportunities he's giving to Radical Islam
Typical Iran government response. They are such liars....just like they are lying about their nuclear program being for "peaceful" purposes.
Wouldn't you?
I guess I would lie too. My letter would read: Dear Iran: We are not going to bomb you. From: USA
that was espionage definitely...people stop acting so naive...3 grown ups accidently got into Iran?lol
never uderestimate your opponets is the lesson here
you underestimate the plight of the hipster and their willingness to do anything to be edgy.
You fools think the CIA would send American's in to Iran when they already have plenty of Iranian citizens on the payroll? These were hippy dippy stupid liberals.
I totally agree. They are ether stupid or spies.
hikers=CIA agents people....Com'on!