Posted on 06/26/2005 3:25:19 PM PDT by aculeus
A hostage held alongside Mr Wood [recently released Aussie ex-hostage] has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one. Ulf Hjertstrom, a Swede who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood, was freed by his kidnappers on May 30. He has since said he shared information with US and Iraqi troops that led to the Australian's release. Now, he wants to find those responsible. "I have now put some people to work to find these bastards," he said yesterday. "I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."
Iraq needs a version of "The Untouchables" if they are to get a handle on this problem. As the terrorists attack civilians more and more, the population is wiseing up to who their real enemy is.
Put an explosive vest on them and set the timer randomly before shackling them and leaving.
Let them spend their last hours wondering just how many they have.
So9
Eat their livers. Then pack them in pork rinds.
RS -- "Iraq needs a version of "The Untouchables" if they are to get a handle on this problem. As the terrorists attack civilians more and more, the population is wiseing up to who their real enemy is."
I think that one of the greatest lines in a movie (that some how didn't get included in the recent listing) was 'They come at you with a knife, you go after them with a gun. They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.'
-- audio & graphic on this one by 2 other FReepers -- 
TEDDY
Sounds to me as if these islam-a-nazies have succeeded in converting this tolerating/liberal into a justice seeking conservative.
NIce.
this is the way it ought to be done.
Awesome! Is he Israeli by birth, by any chance?
Nice idea, but more than likely that money went down a black hole. It may even end up in the hands of the people he's supposedly trying to track down. Remember, Jack Idema is the poster boy for this line of work.
"Bring on Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner!"
But what if the CIA wants Roland dead? Look out for that Son of a B Van Owen!
I think I'll stick to saying L'Chaim.
But, happy hunting anyway...
Is DICK his name, or is that what he is?
Published: 22nd June 2005 09:38 CET
Sweden reveals secret Iraq hostage
A Swedish man was kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq for more than two months before being released three weeks ago, Sweden's foreign ministry said Tuesday in the first public news of the abduction.
The man, named in the Swedish media as 63-year-old Ulf Hjertström, told a newspaper that he had been kidnapped in Baghdad on March 25 and had been held for ransom under dreadful conditions for 67 days before his May 30 release.
During his ordeal he was forced to watch other prisoners being killed and was subjected to mock executions himself, he said.
The foreign ministry confirmed a Swede had been kidnapped and released in Iraq, but refused to provide any further details.
In contrast to a long line of other high-profile kidnapping cases in the violence-plagued country, with constant media attention and widely publicized ransom demands, no news of the kidnapping or any ransom demand had leaked out in the media here before Tuesday's news that Hjertström had been released.
According to the Swedish daily Aftonbladet, it was weeks before his family and colleagues were even aware that Hjertström, who has lived in Iraq for the past 14 years, had disappeared.
"My employees that I had gone away for a while," he told the paper.
Once the foreign ministry realized the situation it informed his brother, who was sworn to secrecy.
The brother, whose name was not disclosed in the Aftonbladet article, said the kidnappers had requested 250,000 kronor in ransom, but he insisted he had never paid any money.
In an interview with the Swedish news agency TT, Hjertström described his ordeal in captivity.
"They talked about how I was an enemy of the country and other bullshit like that, but I knew right away what this was about. Money and nothing else," he said.
He said his captors had killed a number of other prisoners before his eyes and that they on several occasions subjected him to mock executions.
"They tied my hands to hooks on the wall and then they took off my blindfold so I could see. Then they took out a gun and screwed on a silencer and then they shot. The bullet passed just a few millimeters (a tenth of an inch) from my ear," Hjertström said.
The Swede said he had been held in a cell with an Australian hostage who was not doing well.
"I had to try to cheer him up, since I realized that that was the only way he would survive," he said.
There was no indication whether the Australian hostage was Douglas Wood, a 63-year-old engineering contractor freed last week after 47 days in captivity in Iraq.
AFP
Let's put the Liberals on the list!
Go Jihad on HIM willya?
And he's contributing to the economy by hiring individuals who ' take out trash' for a living!
Didn't we used to have agents who did that kinda thing?
Mossad lessons, anyone???
Hire mobsters to rub out the kidnappers.
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