Posted on 11/14/2015 4:15:37 PM PST by BBell
Lets see how Russia (KGB) deals with Islamic terrorist hostage takers
Are you among those frustrated Americans who have wondered how the Soviet Union's only hostage crisis in Lebanon was resolved in just a month, while the plight of the six U.S. hostages held there continues to drag on without any
break in sight?
Well, according to the Jerusalem Post, the Soviets turned the trick by forgoing diplomacy in favor of a brutally more direct approach to the problem.
Simply put, they presented the kidnappers with chilling proof that terror can cut both ways. Literally!
The crisis began last Sept. 30, you might recall, when four attaches from the Soviet Embassy were kidnapped in Beirut by Muslim extremists. Western news agencies received individual photos of the four men that same night, each with an automatic pistol pressed against his head.
The photos were accompanied by a note from a hitherto unknown group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Organization. The message warned that the four Soviet captives would be executed, one by one, unless Moscow pressured pro- Syrian militiamen to cease shelling positions held by the pro-Iranian fundamentalist militia in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli.
Although the Soviets attempted to open some channel for negotiations with the kidnappers, there was no immediate let-up in the shelling at Tripoli.
Only two days after the kidnappings, the body of one of the four kidnapped men, a 30-year-old consular secretary named Arkady Katov, was found, shot through the head, on a Beirut trash dump.
Apparently, that's when the Soviets dropped the idea of sweet talk and turned the matter over to the KGB.
Less than four weeks later, the three remaining hostages were freed on foot only 150 yards from the Soviet Embassy.
The pro-Syrian daily Al Sharq credited their release to the clandestine efforts of Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kanaan, the chief of intelligence for Syrian forces in Lebanon.
Western journalists reported that the kidnappers were forced to free the hostages because a block-to-block search by pro-Syrian militiamen was closing in on them.
But it wasn't until last week that Jerusalem Post diplomatic correspondent Benny Morris uncovered the most compelling reason why the three Soviets were released, emaciated and tired, but otherwise unharmed.
According to Morris, the KBG determined the kidnapping to be the work of the Shiite Muslim group known as Hezbollah, or Party of God. This was the same radical pro-Iranian faction that figured so belligerently in the mass hostage-taking from the TWA airliner at Beirut Airport last June.
Unlike the approach the United States used to resolve the TWA crisis, however, the Soviets did not bother negotiating with Hezbollah through Nabih Berri, Lebanon's justice minister and leader of the Shiite Amal militia.
Instead, the KGB kidnapped a man they knew to be a close relative of a prominent Hezbollah leader. They then castrated him and sent the severed organs to the Hezbollah official, before dispatching the unfortunate kinsman with a bullet in the brain.
In addition to presenting him with this grisly proof of their seriousness, the KGB operatives also advised the Hezbollah leader that they knew the identities of other close relatives of his, and that he could expect more such packages if the three Soviet diplomats were not freed immediately.
The message was a lot more extreme than Ronald Reagan's vague allusions to using "Rambo next time," but the swift release of the three remaining hostages indicated that the Hezbollah big shot couldn't handle having terror shoved back in his face.
Post reporter Morris quoted unidentified observers in Jerusalem as noting:
"This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things - they don't talk.
"And this is the language the Hezbollah understand."
Jigalojey: So what have we learned from this ladies and gentleman?? Stop ####### around with islamic terrorists and treating them like humans, the Russians know whats up but then again they lack the political correct ******** culture that we unfortunately have.
Barack (the winged angel of islam) Whosinsane Obama is the supremem leader of our experiment in Liberty.
Feel better now?
Reads splendidly. If only it was true.
For clarity this is September 30, 1985
The date of the kidnappings:
On September 30 1985, four attaches from the Soviet Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, were kidnapped by men linked to Hizbollah (“Party of Godâ€), the Iranian-supported terrorist group.
The agency is no longer called the KGB but is now I think called the FSB.
Same guys but a new T-shirt
“Stop ####### around with islamic terrorists and treating them like humans, the Russians know whats up but then again they lack the political correct ******** culture that we unfortunately have.”
Our Leftist politicians LOVE Muzzies so they are continue to be nice to them.
Noe the Russians and Hezbollah are best buds...
yeah, it was pretty confusing.
and probably kind of hard to verify.
but it is believable.
Folks need to go on YouTube and find the videos of the Russian Navy using Somali pirates for target practice. After they capture them and beat them, they tie them up and put them back on their boats, float them out a bit and then shoot machine guns and RPGs at them. The best is when the pirates first tell the Russians they can’t do what they are doing.
Remember when the Russians let those pirates go and then the pirates boat mysteriously blew up? Must have been a fuel leak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLj3aYPXEEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJ0nblZjZE
http://www.military.com/video/forces/navy/russian-navy-captures-somalian-pirates/1107938495001
I worked in the ME when the American hostage crisis took place. At that same time, an American CIA agent was kidnapped and killed in Beirut and a Russian agent was also kidnapped by muzzies in Beirut. The story goes that the Russian response was that they captured a family member of one of the kidnappers, killed him and send his head in a bag to the kidnapper with the message that they (the Russians) knew where every member of the kidnapper’s family lived and that the same would happen to them if they did not release the Russian agent. The agent was released immediately. We should go Russian when negotiating with muzzies. Say what you want, but Putin loves Russia more than Hussein loves America.
And cry. Don't forget the crying!
“Say what you want, but Putin loves Russia more than Hussein loves America.”
He should.
We need a president who loves America more than Russia.
“”For clarity this is September 30, 1985””
Why wasn’t that part of the thread? I’m scratching my head wondering how in the heck I missed this news and then I got to the part about TWA. WOW! That goes back more than a few years.
>>The agency is no longer called the KGB but is now I think called the FSB.<<
Florida State Baseball?
Start with releasing Texan feral hogs next to the Kaaba. Then dead ones with plenty of pig blood. Bacon Bombing. Pulled pork sandwiches. Tactical nukes.
It’s clobberin’ time.
Yeah, like Paul Ryno replacing the colored, crying guy.
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