WAR: Australian hostages might be Hoaxed

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs has accounted for all Australian citizens in Iraq. Suggesting that the statement released earlier this week by a group calling themselves the "Horror Brigades of the Islamic Secret Army" might have been a hoax.


This comes a day after Prime Minister John Howard authorised the sending in of a 'military logistics group' to Iraq from Perth, the home of the Australian SAS. First reports suggested the group was merely a negotiating team, but later it was announced that the group was made up primarily of members of the AFP hostage rescue team and SAS troopers.

There is still of course the chance that the two are Australians that had entered Iraq without notifying anyone, but as the Hostage Takers are still yet to release any videos or images to confirm their identity (the usual procedure). This is looking less and less likely.

All military personell were of course accounted for immediately after the report came out.

Interesting though for the hostage takers to bother with a hoax like this. Perhaps inspired by the Jakarta embassy bombing at the weekend. Or perhaps there actually are hostages, but they merely claimed to be Australian in the (false) hope that that would gain them some leniency.

I had a "strange" feeling from the start it was a hoax - let's hope it is!

It wouldn't even surprise me if labor was behind this as well to polarize the voters...

We all know what the unions are capable of aren't we

Also the 24 hour deadline passed a few hours ago, the longer theres no news the better really.

Still no news on this, which is unusual if it was legit.

Originally posted by Kano
Still no news on this, which is unusual if it was legit.

If it goes another 24hrs, I think it would be safe to assume, but they usually do not come out right away.