Journalists, Guns and Money

The National Ledger ^ | March 9, 2005 | CK Rairden

[Coastal]

Send lawyers, guns and money...The late Warren Zevon circa 1978.

The kidnappers of communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena are likely singing nearly the same tune after she was released from her captors last weekend for a large sum of cash. You can hum along with what is their twist on the song as they count their loot.

Send journalists, guns and money…

It's impossible to get a hard figure on how much cold hard cash was paid to free Sgrena, but it appears to be anywhere from $1 million to $6 million. When the first six-million dollar figure was published in the Washington Times, I observed that Sgrena was now the six-million dollar journalist. No matter the amount, seven figures can arm a lot of Islamofascists.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This was an awful mistake by Italy and apparently it is not the first time they've paid. Ms. Malkin cites the NY Post as saying they may have already shelled out $15 million in the last year alone to free their countrymen from the Islamofascists.

So the Italians have pid upwards of $21 MILLION to help the terrorists murder Iraqis ans US soldiers?