Posted on 09/29/2004 7:57:30 PM PDT by familyop
So why is this freed italian's eye being returned to Iraq???
LOL
So the "were their lives worth $1 million or more" question aside, were their lives worth the number of lives of our soldiers and other civilians who will be taken with $1 million or more worth of hardware?
LOL! ...didn't see that until you brought it up, Chad.
So what do you think?
So the "were their lives worth $1 million or more" question aside, were their lives worth the number of lives of our soldiers and other civilians who will be taken with $1 million or more worth of hardware?
$1,000,000 buys a lot of RPG's.....
smells fishy
remember, these were high profile anti-war activists
getting abducted, getting released (under circumstances that conflict directly with the western axiom "we don't negotiate with terrorists"), then WANTING to return to Iraq, all serve the political agenda of these women
smells fishy
This whole thing seems odd to me. I smell a rat.
How much will the next ransom be? And the next?
As a rule hostages aren't so eager to return to the place of their abduction, and muslims aren't known to be so civil to Christians when they kidnap them.
So, the question is: Was there really a kidnapping?
I think paying ransoms are a cop out and only serves to encourage more...
rat or fish or both
Pretty sneaky way to transfer funds to terrorists. No middlemen, no administrative costs, no "for the children" front.
I bet if those men who were slain by the terrorists got a chance to go free they would not be singing the praises of iraq
Yep you're right.
I think you all have a good point. There are some odd characteristics in the situation--things that don't fit.
Those two women had been in Iraq for quite a few years. I forgot how long, offhand...since '94, maybe, for at least one of them...or '98 or something like that?
The Iraqis think these two were spies too, only they think they were on the side of the terrorists. They won't be welcome if they go back to Iraq.
Treated with respect? All righty then.
Stockholm syndrome.
New tactic of the Religion of Peace: If you want to teach someone about Islam, you must first blindfold them and then hold them hostage for three weeks. New educational technique, which admittedly is a big advance over the technique we've gotten used to: beheading.
Oh, I just re read it and saw the magic word: RANSOM.
Must have been in the millions.
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