Kayla Mueller
- Thread starter SkyRider
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Having a Syrian boyfriend might have more to do with why she ended
up where she was than naivety.
Her family in Arizona is clinging to the slim hope that she might still be alive. Folks like her have to realize that they are not just risking their own lives but also the lives of people sent to rescue them. A rescue team did find some of her hair and DNA proved that she was there but doesn't indicate whether she was still alive at the time.
Apparently, she left, and then came back. Then she ducked out to get a pack of smokes but was apprehended again near a 7-11 in Poughkeepsie.Apparently, Kayla's Syrian boyfriend went to get her released but she didn't want to leave.
Citations? We don't need no steenking citations!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ller-s-lover-reveals-went-Syria-save-her.html
I heard it mentioned on CNN but maybe the above link (not CNN) is just as good. He risked his own life going there.
Apparently, her family is pissed that U.S. efforts were not made to rescue her earlier. I guess her family doesn't understand you can't just go charging off into the wilderness. There is planning, there is intelligence, mobilizing the appropriate men/women and equipment, etc. It also seems selfish that her family was so ready to risk the lives of other families' sons and daughters to save their own daughter who was (while good hearted) created her own predicament. In fact Doctors Without Borders urged not to go to Syria but she wouldn't listen.
Sorry to rain on your Stockholm syndrome parade, but nowhere in the article you link to, nor in any of the others I've found, does it say that she "didn't want to leave". She was a captive, she was terrified and confused, and had no idea whether her captors knew the truth about her marital status. Most likely she believed that if she lied to them they'd kill or torture her, so she panicked and told them the truth.
Don't worry though. There's plenty of other shit you can tar her with to go with the asshole narrative I'm hearing from right Blogsylvania that implies that she deserved her fate. Mind you, I had thought the consistent wingnut take on murdered hostages was rah-rah jingoism and Muslim bashing, but whatever floats Breitbart's boat, right? Say, did you know she was pro-palestinian?
Yes, that is one scenario. It is also possible she said that to protect her boyfriend who risked his life pulling that ruse. We may never know the truth. Just like we may also never know how she died.
However, I still think her parents are selfish (understandably so) in urging the U.S. government to risk the lives of sons and daughters of other families in attempts to rescue their daughter who ignored sound advice and deliberately put herself in harm's way.
Do you realize that Skyrider is actually Rockslinger? He does nothing but troll and suck people into his crap? His "sources" are usually just made up fabrications which he cannot prove...
I got a mind like a sieve. Now that you mention it, I remember that being discussed in another thread some time ago. ...and promptly forgot it. But even from this thread alone, I should have guessed from his inability to admit to being wrong.
