US hostage 'escapes' from Iraqi captors
Written on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 by Jessica
Aljazeera.Net - US hostage 'escapes' from Iraqi captors
Notice how quotation marks around the word 'escapes' can change the apparent meaning. On the other hand, when the story first broke, I thought to myself, 'Oh, come on. Did he really escape? Or did they decide to let him go?'