CBS’s Richard Butler is a piece of work:
CBS News journalist Richard Butler said he believes he was kidnapped in Iraq by policemen with sympathies toward the Hezbollah but isn’t entirely sure who held him captive for two months or why.
Butler, a British journalist kidnapped with his interpreter on Feb. 10, was rescued by Iraqi troops on April 14 when he was found with a sack over his head in a house in Basra. . .
While he was held, he heard a lot of Hezbollah propaganda video and Hezbollah ringtones on mobile phones, but he can’t be sure his captors were affiliated with the organization. . .
Yes, let’s not jump to any conclusions that Hezbollah was involved. Anyway, now we get to the point:
Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.
“I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance,” he said.
Yeah, I hear that mortarboarding is really unpleasant. . . I didn’t know there was a chapter at Guantanamo, but I guess those guys want it on their resume when they graduate.
All snark aside, one is tempted to speculate about Stockholm syndrome, but I think it’s more likely he leaned that way from the start.
(Via LGF.)
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