Susanne Osthoff, who was released from Iraqi kidnappers last week, baffles Germany by going on television swathed in black.
Posted on 12/29/2005 2:23:41 PM PST by Brian Mosely
If former hostage Susanne Osthoff had been better advised, she probably would have opted against appearing on German television entirely covered in a black headscarf. The hijab, which left only a pair of slits for her eyes, made the freed hostage look like a disturbing cross between a Chechen Black Widow suicide bomber and a ninja.
On Wednesday night, 10 days after her release from captivity, a televised interview with Osthoff, who had been held in Iraq for three weeks, was broadcast on the German public television channel ZDF. In the interview's introduction, the presenter explained that Osthoff's choice of dress was suposedly intended to preserve her identity --a bizarre thought considering that Osthoff's face has been all over the front-pages since November and most people in Germany must be quite aware of what she looks like. Besides, she didn't wear a headdress in her interview with Arab broacaster Al-Jazeera earlier this week.
The second shock for viewers was the rambling, incoherent nature of Osthoff's answers. Even the heavily edited version (ZDF spokesman: "We wanted to protect Osthoff from herself.") of the original 15-minute interview was barely comprehensible. Questions were left unanswered and at times Osthoff rambled off into non-sequiturs about how badly she had been treated by her landlord back in Germany. When asked how the kidnapping had been carried out, she was evasive, simply responding: "I think these details are not interesting. That doesn't interest anyone. Generally kidnappings are carried out quite violently. People watch a lot of television and realize perhaps that you don't let yourself get abducted voluntarily."
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Susanne Osthoff, who was released from Iraqi kidnappers last week, baffles Germany by going on television swathed in black.
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She's a terrorist-symp nut, which is why she staged her "kidnapping" in the first place. It's also why they didn't saw her stupid head off.
Either this is a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome, or she wasn't involuntarily kidnapped.
Perhaps Susanne enjoyed playing the role usually played by a muslim's camel.
Yep staged, mock kidnapping, fake BS. Take your pick!
"fake but real" ping
But there is more to that than this.
I've read somewhere an article about growing numbers of European women converting to Islam... My conclusion was that it's either the well known feminine practical streak (Europe will become Mohammedan rather sooner than later), or a fashion statement.
After all, the Moslem garments like burkha are the best for the purpose of hiding lines, pimples, lack of ti... sorry, bust, and so on...
The German version of Crazy Cindy Sheehan.
Also possible that her kidnappers administered some interesting drugs to her, the effects of which haven't quite worn off (and the damage could even be permanent).
“My name is Tanya.”
...and the Hearsts are pigs!
LOL!!! Strangely pleasant visual!
And I thought Muslims aren't supposed to drink alcohol. Was she stoned on hashish?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Jihadi.
Said it before and I'll said it again; The Herms got snookered. She's with them.
They let Stetham's killer free for this trash?
She should be executed now - she is an accomplice of the some of the worst terrorists on the planet. Someone should be looking very hard at this terror bimbo, along with Srgena (Italian commie terrorist lover) and other suspicious so-called 'kidnappings' which only seem to benefit the terrorists and create new propaganda vehicles. I very much doubt that she is anything other than what she appears, a terrorist-loving accomplice.
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